Futures First

About Futures First

Futures First is an Indian proprietary trading firm headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana, with additional trading and research offices in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, and Dubai. The firm runs proprietary derivatives-trading strategies across global fixed-income, equity-index, commodity, and currency markets, with its dealers trading on major international exchanges from India. Futures First was founded in 2007 and operates as a privately held proprietary trading house with no client-facing brokerage business. The firm is known on Indian engineering, business-school, and economics campuses as one of the larger graduate employers in the Indian quantitative trading and execution-trading market, recruiting hundreds of analysts each year. The firm trades fundamentals-driven discretionary strategies, technical strategies, and systematic strategies across exchange-traded derivatives, with dealers organised into desks specialising by asset class and region. Risk management, technology, and research functions support the trading business and are also a target for fresher hiring. Indian fresher hiring at Futures First typically targets analyst, dealer-trainee, quantitative-research, software-engineer, and technology-trainee roles, with structured campus drives at IITs, NITs, IIMs, ISI, and tier-1 economics, statistics, and engineering institutions. Graduate analysts go through a multi-week training programme covering markets, products, risk management, and execution before joining trading desks.

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