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Retail Trader - Fully Remote | Up to $400/task

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Must be located in the United States
  • At least 2 years of active trading experience with 1,000 trades
  • Experience with stocks and options
  • Broker account with a U.S. retail broker

Responsibilities

  • Upload complete transaction history from U.S. brokerage account covering at least 24 months
  • Describe your trading style including strategy and typical holding period
  • Explain your 5 biggest trades with detailed reasoning
  • Ensure all explanations are clear and separate reflections from original reasoning

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Communication

About the company

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Mercor

Job Boards & Talent Marketplaces

Our vast talent network trains frontier AI models in the same way teachers teach students: by sharing knowledge, experience, and context that can't be captured in code alone. Today, more than 30,000 experts in our network collectively earn over $2 million a day.

Company details

IndustryJob Boards & Talent Marketplaces
Company size51 - 200

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Job description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

Position: Retail Trader
Type: Contract
Compensation: $400 per task
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

  • Upload your complete transaction history from your U.S. brokerage account. Ensure it covers at least 24 months with no trades removed.
  • Describe your trading style in a short summary, including strategy, typical holding period, instruments, and platforms used.
  • Explain your 5 biggest trades, detailing reasoning at entry or exit and information driving the decision. Include specific trade details like symbol, date, side, and quantity.
  • Ensure all explanations are clear and separate reflections from original reasoning.

Qualifications

Must-Have

  • Location: United States only.
  • Trading experience: At least 2 years of active trading and 1,000 trades over that period.
  • Instruments: Stocks and options.
  • Broker: Account with a U.S. retail broker like Robinhood, Schwab, Fidelity, E*TRADE, Webull, or Interactive Brokers.
  • Age: 18 or older.
  • Willing to share complete brokerage trade history with no trades removed.

Compensation & Legal

  • $400, paid once you have uploaded your full history and annotated at least 5 trades.
  • Partial submissions are not paid; the upload and all 5 annotations are required.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

  • Upload resume
  • AI interview based on your resume
  • Submit form

Resources & Support

  • For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
  • For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com

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