Stock trader
Code 3311.3.5
Stock traders use their technical expertise of financial markets performance to advise and make recommendations to asset managers or shareholders for a profitable investment strategy, keeping in mind the company’s performance. They use stock market trading operations and deal with a wide array of taxes, commissions and fiscal obligations. Stock traders buy and sell bonds, stocks, futures and shares in hedge funds. They perform detailed micro- and macroeconomic and industry specific technical analysis.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- stock market
- actuarial science
- financial jurisdiction
- economics
- financial markets
- financial products
- modern portfolio theory
- securities
Skills and competences
- analyse economic trends
- analyse market financial trends
- trade securities
- forecast economic trends
- perform stock valuation
Transversal competences
- 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