Foreign exchange trader
Also searched as: Cambista de divisas
Code 3311.3.2
What does a Foreign exchange trader do?
Foreign exchange traders buy and sell foreign currencies in order to secure a profit on fluctuations in foreign exchange rates. They undertake technical analysis of economic information (market liquidity and volatility ) to predict the future rates of currencies on the foreign exchange market. They trade on their own name or for their employers.
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Essential skills
Knowledge
- commercial law
- financial jurisdiction
- foreign valuta
- economics
- financial markets
Skills and competences
- analyse economic trends
- analyse market financial trends
- trade foreign currencies
- perform financial risk management in international trade
- manage financial risk
- forecast economic trends
Transversal competences
- analyse financial risk
- handle financial transactions
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences