Remote Funded Risk-Defined Options Trader

What You'll Trade

The full menu of defined-risk options structures: vertical spreads, iron condors, butterflies, broken-wing butterflies, calendars (defined-risk variants), and combinations of the above. Underlyings span liquid US single-names, sector ETFs, and broad-market indices.

Day-to-Day

• Morning: review existing positions across structures; identify which strategies the day's IV environment favors
• Identify new entries with the strategy that best fits the thesis — directional, neutral, or volatility-based
• Execute as defined-risk structures only; build complex combinations as multi-leg orders, not legged-in pieces
• Manage portfolio Greeks across the book — vega, delta, gamma, theta — and adjust toward target exposures

Risk Profile

By design, this role caps loss at the defined-risk amount of each position. Portfolio risk is managed at the firm level via concentration limits and total notional caps. The defined-risk constraint sacrifices some strategies (naked puts, ratio sells, short strangles) but removes the tail-risk events that end careers.

Who Succeeds in This Role

• Traders coming from retail options who want the discipline of defined-risk-only without losing access to the full strategy menu
• People who think in strategy-fit-to-environment — not just one go-to trade
• Candidates with broad options knowledge but limited exposure to professional risk frameworks
• Traders who value the absence of tail risk in their personal trading psychology

Why This Role Exists at Maverick

Most career-ending losses in retail options come from naked short premium gone wrong. Maverick built this role specifically to provide a professional career path that excludes that single category of risk entirely. It's the most-applied-to options role at the firm.

Open Locations

This role is open to US-based applicants. Browse risk-defined options trader positions by metro: