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Retail Trader

Listed on Mercor as “Retail Trader”

$400/hrRemoteContractPaid in USD

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How this rate compares

This listing

$400 per hour

Typical in General projects

$55–$70 per hour

Above the typical range

Typical: the middle of the lowest and highest rates posted by 119 listings in this category on Seoulstart, in US dollars.

What this actually is

You complete short labeling tasks, record everyday activities, or evaluate AI outputs across general knowledge domains. Open to most backgrounds. The platform title (Retail Trader) reflects the rate band and the expertise required, not the day-to-day work.

How Mercor picks people

Upload your CV and answer the role's written questions.
Do a video interview with Mercor's AI interviewer. Most take about 20 minutes, in English unless the role says otherwise.
Some roles add a skills test. A test you pass once counts for similar roles.
The project team reviews your results and sends offers to the people it picks.

Before you start

Take Mercor's free practice interview first. It does not count toward any application.
Use Chrome on a computer with a camera and microphone, in a quiet room.
You can retake an official interview up to 3 times, but hiring teams see how many times you retook it.

Not every applicant gets an offer. Prepare well for the interview.

How to prepare for the Mercor interview

Source: Mercor's help pages. talent.docs.mercor.com

Can you do this on your visa?

F-2 / F-4 / F-5 / F-6: open. E-1 to E-7: needs concurrent-employment permit. D-2 / D-4 students: S-3 permit, 20 hr/week cap. D-10 / D-8: case by case.

Korean tax on USD income

First 5 years in Korea: foreign-source income only taxed if remitted into Korea. After year 5: worldwide income. Full tax guide.

Original posting from Mercor

About the work

We are building a dataset of real retail trading behavior: complete brokerage trade histories, paired with the trader's own explanation of how they trade and why they made their biggest decisions.

This is a one-time task, paid a flat $400 on completion.

Who we are looking for

Location: United States only.

Trading experience: at least 2 years of active trading on your own account, and at least 1,000 trades over that period (about 2 per trading day).

Instruments: stocks; options count too.

Broker: your account is with a U.S. retail broker, such as Robinhood, Schwab, Fidelity, E\*TRADE, Webull or Interactive Brokers.

Background: any. No minimum education and any field of study, from current college students to graduate-degree holders. Non-finance professionals, finance professionals and full-time traders all qualify. Current or former professional traders can take part using their own personal account only.

Age: 18 or older.

Willing to share your complete brokerage trade history, with no trades removed.

Not a fit

Fewer than 2 years of history, or fewer than 1,000 trades

Trading only through an account you don't own, such as a managed, employer or prop-firm account

Trading mostly crypto or futures

Data license agreement

Taking part requires signing Mercor's Expert Content License Agreement, which covers how your trading history and annotations are licensed and used. You sign it as part of applying.

Quoted from Mercor's public listing on 2026-11-13. We don't edit platform copy; honest framing is in the title and the “what this actually is” block above.

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