Wall Street Enters Prediction Markets With $200K Trader Salaries as Institutional Arbitrage Takes Over

Prediction markets — once dominated by political hobbyists, retail speculators and opportunistic arbitrageurs — are rapidly professionalizing as Wall Street trading giants move in with capital, talent, and structural advantages. According to a recent report by the Financial Times, major trading firms including DRW, Susquehanna, and crypto hedge fund Tyr Capital are actively building dedicated prediction market trading teams. $200,000 Salaries Signal Institutional CommitmentDRW posted a job listing last week offering base salaries of up to $200,000 for traders tasked with real-time monitoring and trading of active contracts on platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi. Susquehanna, one of the world’s largest options trading firms, is recruiting traders to:Identify mispriced probabilitiesDetect market anomalies and inefficienciesBuild dedicated sports and event trading strategiesMeanwhile, Tyr Capital continues to hire traders already running complex, multi-market strategies, underscoring how quickly prediction markets are evolving from speculative playgrounds into structured financial venues source: https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/35102852790610?utm_source=BinanceNewsRSS