Remote Funded Large-Cap Options Trader — Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Maverick Trading
Options trading on the most liquid US large-caps — tight spreads, deep books, scalable size.
Trade the open from California, be done by lunch — the time zone trade is one of the cleanest in the country.
A large-cap options trader at Maverick focuses on the most liquid US-listed names — the S&P 100 universe and a handful of additional names with comparable option volume. The role rewards traders who want clean execution, scalable size, and the operational benefits that come with deep option markets (penny-wide spreads, weekly expirations, full strike grids).
Trading from Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles is the second-largest financial center in the country by a number of measures — Capital Group, TCW, PIMCO, Oaktree, and dozens of independent funds are headquartered in the LA/Pasadena/Newport Beach corridor. Pacific Time means the market opens before most of LA wakes up; the trade-off is a clean afternoon free by 1pm. Many of our West Coast traders prefer this rhythm explicitly.
Local ecosystem: UCLA Anderson, USC Marshall, Caltech, and a deep entertainment-finance ecosystem.
Time zone: PT — the NYSE opens at 6:30am local for traders based in Los Angeles.
What You'll Trade
Single-name large-cap options across directional, defined-risk neutral, and event-driven strategies. The universe is intentionally narrow — typically 30–60 names a trader covers actively — but the depth of each market lets traders run larger positions than would be feasible in mid-caps.
Day-to-Day
- Morning: review existing positions for tested strikes, IV changes, and Greeks drift
- Identify new entries from the covered watchlist — directional setups, vol mispricings, or event-cycle plays
- Execute with limit orders inside the spread; large-cap option markets reward patient execution
- End of day: mark portfolio Greeks, review the day's P&L attribution
Risk Profile
Large-cap options markets are deep but not bulletproof — earnings, macro shocks, and single-name news can still produce 5%+ overnight moves. Maverick caps per-name notional, per-name vega, and portfolio-level Greeks exposure.
Who Succeeds in This Role
- Traders who prefer depth of expertise over breadth — knowing 40 names well, not 400 superficially
- People who think in Greeks first, price second
- Candidates who have already run an options book and understand portfolio-level risk
- Traders who appreciate clean execution and tight spreads
Why This Role Exists at Maverick
Large-cap options are the most institutional segment of US options markets. Maverick funds traders here because the strategies scale — what works in one name can be sized up across the entire watchlist — and the operational quality of the markets supports professional execution.
What Maverick Offers
- Trade firm capital — no personal capital at risk
- 65%–90% profit split based on performance tier
- Performance-based capital scaling, no upper cap
- Professional training and mentorship from active traders
- Fully remote — trade from anywhere with reliable internet (US applicants)
- Monthly ACH payouts
- No challenge accounts, no evaluations, no monthly fees
About Maverick Trading
Maverick Trading is a proprietary trading firm founded in 1997. We allocate firm capital to disciplined traders and scale buying power based on performance. We are not a brokerage, we do not run challenge accounts, and we do not sell evaluations. We profit only when our traders profit.