Senior Retail Trading Analyst – Prediction Markets
Alignerr • Remote • Posted 0 days ago
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About this Role
What You'll Do
- Evaluate real-world market events and assign well-reasoned probability estimates
- Analyze how retail investors respond to catalysts, volatility, macro shifts, and sentiment changes
- Interpret prediction-market signals across equities, crypto, macro, and global news
- Review and label trading-related datasets with structured, consistent reasoning
- Assess crowd behavior and identify patterns in retail trading flows
- Provide clear written rationale grounded in current news, price action, and investor psychology
About the Role
What if your edge as a trader could directly influence how AI understands markets, risk, and investor behavior? We're looking for experienced market participants to help train cutting-edge AI systems that interpret retail trading patterns, crowd sentiment, and probabilistic market signals. This is a fully remote, flexible contract role built for people who live and breathe markets — traders, prediction market enthusiasts, and financially-savvy analysts who can think clearly about uncertainty and communicate their reasoning with precision.
- Organization: Alignerr
- Type: Hourly Contract
- Location: Remote
- Commitment: Flexible hours
Who You Are
- An active or recent market participant — you follow markets closely and trade or invest regularly
- Comfortable thinking in probabilities and assessing event outcomes under uncertainty
- Familiar with prediction markets, trading platforms, or retail investor behavior
- Up to date on financial, macro, and geopolitical developments that move markets
- Strong written communicator — you can explain your reasoning clearly and concisely
- Detail-oriented and consistent when working through structured analytical tasks
- Self-motivated and reliable when working independently and asynchronously
Nice to Have
- Experience with platforms like Kalshi, Polymarket, PredictIt, or similar prediction markets
- Background in retail brokerage, financial analysis, or market research
- Familiarity with technical analysis, options flow, or sentiment indicators
- Knowledge of behavioral finance or investor psychology
- Prior experience in data labeling, annotation, or AI training workflows
Why Join Us
- Work on frontier AI research at the intersection of finance, forecasting, and machine learning
- Fully remote and asynchronous — work on your own schedule, from anywhere
- Freelance autonomy with the structure of meaningful, high-impact work
- Apply real market knowledge to a domain where your expertise genuinely matters
- Potential for ongoing work and contract extension as new projects launch
Requirements
- Fluent proficiency in English (Written & Verbal)
- Reliable high-speed internet connection
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
- Demonstrated expertise in Finance
Compensation Analysis
What if your edge as a trader could directly influence how AI understands markets, risk, and investor behavior? We're looking for experienced market participants to help train cutting-edge AI systems that interpret retail trading patterns, crowd sentiment, and probabilistic market signals. This is a fully remote, flexible contract role built for pe
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