AlignerrDomain experts
Senior Retail Trading Analyst – Prediction Markets
up to $65/hr
About this role, in Alignerr's words
What if your edge as a trader — your ability to read crowd sentiment, anticipate retail reactions, and assess probabilities in real time — could directly shape the future of financial AI?
What you'll do
- Analyze retail trading flows and evaluate how independent investors respond to news, volatility, catalysts, and sentiment shifts
- Assess real-world market events and assign well-reasoned probability estimates
- Interpret prediction-market signals across domains including equities, crypto, macro, and geopolitics
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- Review and label trading-related data with structured, clearly communicated reasoning
- Evaluate AI-generated market analysis for accuracy, logic, and alignment with real trader behavior
- Stay current on financial and geopolitical developments and apply that knowledge to your evaluations
Candidate background
Who You Are
- An active market participant — you trade, follow prediction markets, or engage closely with financial news and price action
- Strong grasp of retail investor psychology, crowd behavior, and risk sentiment
- Comfortable assigning probabilities and reasoning under uncertainty
- Clear and structured communicator — you can explain your thinking concisely and consistently
- Self-directed and reliable when working independently on task-based assignments
- Familiar with trading platforms, prediction markets (e.g., Polymarket, Kalshi), or financial data tools
Nice to Have
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- Background in trading, quantitative finance, financial research, or economics
- Experience with options markets, crypto, or macro trading strategies
- Familiarity with forecasting frameworks or probabilistic reasoning methodologies
- Prior work in AI training, data labeling, or financial content evaluation
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Senior Retail Trading Analyst – Prediction Markets (AI Training)
About the Role
What if your edge as a trader — your ability to read crowd sentiment, anticipate retail reactions, and assess probabilities in real time — could directly shape the future of financial AI?
We're looking for experienced market participants to help train AI systems that understand retail trading behavior, prediction markets, and probabilistic reasoning. You'll bring your real-world market intuition to structured analytical tasks that influence how AI interprets financial signals, investor psychology, and event-driven uncertainty.
This is a fully remote, flexible contract role designed for people who are already plugged into markets — traders, prediction market enthusiasts, financial analysts, and anyone who actively follows equities, crypto, macro, or global events.
- Organization: Alignerr - Type: Hourly Contract - Location: Remote - Commitment: Flexible hours
What You'll Do
* Analyze retail trading flows and evaluate how independent investors respond to news, volatility, catalysts, and sentiment shifts * Assess real-world market events and assign well-reasoned probability estimates * Interpret prediction-market signals across domains including equities, crypto, macro, and geopolitics * Review and label trading-related data with structured, clearly communicated reasoning * Evaluate AI-generated market analysis for accuracy, logic, and alignment with real trader behavior * Stay current on financial and geopolitical developments and apply that knowledge to your evaluations
Who You Are
* An active market participant — you trade, follow prediction markets, or engage closely with financial news and price action * Strong grasp of retail investor psychology, crowd behavior, and risk sentiment * Comfortable assigning probabilities and reasoning under uncertainty * Clear and structured communicator — you can explain your thinking concisely and consistently * Self-directed and reliable when working independently on task-based assignments * Familiar with trading platforms, prediction markets (e.g., Polymarket, Kalshi), or financial data tools
Nice to Have
* Background in trading, quantitative finance, financial research, or economics * Experience with options markets, crypto, or macro trading strategies * Familiarity with forecasting frameworks or probabilistic reasoning methodologies * Prior work in AI training, data labeling, or financial content evaluation
Why Join Us
* Work on cutting-edge AI projects at the frontier of financial intelligence * Fully remote and flexible — work on your own schedule, wherever you are * Freelance autonomy with the structure of meaningful, high-impact work * Put your existing market knowledge and instincts to direct, measurable use * Contribute to AI research that shapes how financial systems understand human trading behavior * Potential for ongoing work and contract extension as new projects launch
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- Billed weekly, Monday to Sunday, with approved work paid by the following Friday, according to Labelbox's help center. Payment goes through Stripe Connect or PayPal depending on your location, with one provider per country. intercom.help/labelbox/en/articles/13600616-alignerr-paym..., alignerr.com/process
- Before your first paid task
- Sign up, apply, verify your identity, set up billing and onboard. Some jobs add a Zara AI interview or domain assessments. alignerr.com/process
- How much work
- Time to your first project depends on demand and your skills, and there is no minimum number of hours. alignerr.com/faqs
- Contract
- Independent contractor, under terms with ALIGNERR LLC. alignerr.com/faqs, alignerr.com/privacy
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Across 692 roles in this field with a stated hourly rate in US dollars, on 18 platforms, the middle half pays $65 to $130 an hour at the top of the range, and the median is $100. This role's top rate, $65, is in the middle half. Of the 258 distinct rates we count, 63 are lower and 185 are higher.
| Platform | Roles | Top of range, per hour |
|---|---|---|
| Alignerr (this platform) | 148 | $24 to $200 · median $80 |
| micro1 | 130 | $28 to $400 · median $110 |
| AfterQuery | 88 | $45 to $175 · median $100 |
| Handshake AI | 79 | $30 to $300 · median $85 |
| Mercor | 78 | $55 to $450 · median $120 |
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- First seen here on 27 Aug 2026, and still on Alignerr's list when we last read it on 13 Oct 2026.
- The listed pay has not changed since then.
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- Listing ID
- 28ddecfb-4181-420a-bf76-1ffb709040e7
Pay as the source states it: “$40-65/hr”.
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