Remote Funded Earnings Volatility Trader

What You'll Trade

Earnings-cycle plays across single-name equity options. Strategies include short premium structures (iron condors, short strangles in defined-risk form) to capture IV crush, long premium structures (long straddles, debit spreads) when implied move is underpricing realized history, and post-earnings drift trades that exploit price continuation after a beat or miss.

Day-to-Day

• Maintain the earnings calendar for the upcoming 2–4 weeks; flag candidates by IV rank and historical implied vs. realized moves
• For each candidate, build a thesis: is the market underpricing or overpricing the expected move?
• Position before close on earnings day; size off max loss, not premium
• Morning after earnings: manage the position — IV crush is fastest in the first hour after open
• Track per-trade expectancy by ticker and by season; some names are reliably mispriced, others aren't

Risk Profile

Earnings trades carry binary risk by design — the print is either in the expected range or it isn't. Maverick caps per-trade max loss strictly, requires defined-risk structures (no naked premium selling into earnings), and limits the total number of concurrent earnings positions to keep correlated event risk manageable.

Who Succeeds in This Role

• Traders who have already run a sample of earnings trades and know their own win rate honestly
• People who can size aggressively when edge is real and skip the print entirely when it isn't
• Candidates who think in distributions — earnings outcomes are not normally distributed
• Traders who can stop trading during the quiet weeks between earnings seasons

Why This Role Exists at Maverick

Earnings volatility is one of the few areas where retail options markets still mispriced systematically. The role exists at Maverick because the strategy is seasonal, finite, and well-suited to traders who want a structured, repeatable framework rather than open-ended directional trading.

Open Locations

This role is open to US-based applicants. Browse earnings volatility trader positions by metro: