Key Ingredients for Successful Trading
At Kershner, we believe there are four elements that create the environment for experienced, short-term traders to reach their highest potential and greatest financial rewards:
- High-performing traders working together
- Technology edge
- Appropriate access to capital
- An experienced leadership team
1. High performing traders working together
- Trade with great traders and share ideas in a team environment
- Opportunity to coach/mentor new traders
- Trade in a team environment
- Overall company profit alignment motivates traders to work with one another
2. Technology edge
- Customizable automation of trading strategy - both partial and full automation
- Dedicated quantitative team to analyze and model trading strategies
- Dedicated operations team
- Dedicated software engineering team develops proprietary software to find more trading opportunities, increase capital traded and lower risk
- Direct, extremely fast quotes and executions
- Fully resilient, dual data center infrastructure, co-located with the markets
- Proprietary trading software, Gr8trade®, exclusive to Kershner traders
- Ability to handle extreme market conditions when others can’t
3. Appropriate access to capital
- Kershner provides the trading capital
- Traders avoid time wasted with investors who don’t understand trading
4. Experienced leadership team
- Management has a track record of success
- Accessible and approachable
- Successful, experienced trader at the CEO level
- Weekly feedback forums
- Tirelessly committed to the success of each trader
5. Expanded Income Potential
- Earn into the overall business. Have the opportunity to participate in the profit-sharing plan
- Build a business. Senior Traders have the opportunity to share in the profits of traders they coach and manage in addition to the company’s profit-sharing plan
6. Grow your career!
- Get into the top trading ecosystem. Allow yourself to focus on being a great individual trader with the support systems covering everything else. Be in the place where it is easiest to adapt and grow
- Scale capital. Ability to trade more capital than retail if you are good
- Scale payout. Higher percentage payouts than hedge funds with outside investors
- Scale trading. Automate your strategies. Find more trades in a team environment
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