Equity Trader | Remote Work

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 Investor Consultant

Type

Hourly contractor

Compensation

$105/hour

Location

Remote

Commitment

20–30 hours/week

Role Responsibilities

• Provide detailed insights into how retail investors analyze markets, execute trades, and manage portfolios.
• Contribute to data annotation, evaluation, and prompt-based labeling to help train AI models for financial understanding.
• Review and categorize trading-related content, investor communications, or platform data for machine learning applications.
• Collaborate with research teams to refine AI model behavior in investment analysis, portfolio reasoning, and financial data interpretation.
• Test and provide structured feedback on investment tools, portfolio dashboards, and retail investor interfaces.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Active or experienced retail investor using one or more platforms: Robinhood, Wealthsimple, Charles Schwab, Fidelity, eToro, Interactive Brokers, SoFi, or Webull.
• Hands‑on experience trading stocks, ETFs, crypto, or derivatives.
• Strong understanding of retail investor psychology, risk assessment, and market behavior.
• Comfortable labeling and categorizing financial or trading data with precision and consistency.

Preferred

• Experience contributing to online investor communities (e.g., r/wallstreetbets, FinTok, finance Twitter, or Discord trading groups).

Compensation & Legal

• Hourly contractor
• Paid weekly via Stripe

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

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

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PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.