Bond trader vs flow trader

Differences between bond trader and flow trader duties and responsibilities

Bond trader example responsibilities.

• Manage traders in training and help teach derivatives theory classes.
• Manage risk of firm capital in directional, basis and arbitrage trading
• Manage business, sales, marketing, international negotiation and communication for a commodities business.
• Train junior traders on modeling and relative value analysis of convertible bonds and structure derivative arbitrage trading strategies.
• Utilize equities and options to hedge bond risk.
• Research equities and design trading schematic to find investment opportunities.
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Flow trader example responsibilities.

• Manage foreign currency position and maximize profit from FX market.
• Communicate with brokers to ensure accurate allocations for futures, foreign exchange, and equities between separately manage accounts.
• Increase the update frequency of currency position from minutes to seconds by applying VBA.
• Provide FX investment consultant and training class to investment sales, making them qualify for introducing to customers.
• Automate the trade allocation and reconciliation procedures using VBA programming which is leveraged to systematically detect any trade breaks or discrepancies.
• Make markets electronically in CME commodity option markets.