Securities & Commodities Traders
Buy and sell securities and commodities to transfer debt, capital, or risk. Establish and negotiate unit prices and terms of sale.
Also called: Broker, Equity Trader, Option Trader, Trader
Knowledge:
- accounting and economics
- customer service
Engineering and Technology
- computers and electronics
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
Skills:
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- reading work related information
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
- bringing people together to solve differences
- talking people into changing their minds or their behavior
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
- use rules to solve problems
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- add, subtract, multiply, or divide
- choose the right type of math to solve a problem
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.
They do well at jobs that need
- Attention to Detail
- Dependability
- Stress Tolerance
- Integrity
- Initiative
- Persistence
Technology:
Financial analysis software
- Bloomberg Professional
- BondDesk Group Trader WorkStation
Object or component oriented development software
Operating system software
