Commodity trader vs flow trader

Differences between commodity trader and flow trader duties and responsibilities

Commodity trader example responsibilities.

• Trade, build, manage, and modele interest rate derivative positions via exchange floor
• Manage and execute physical/financial grains book as well as base metal arbitrage portfolio.
• Manage procurement and sales of bulk grains and agricultural commodities for redistribution into local dairy operations in Idaho.
• Trade a variety of investment vehicles including commodity futures, FOREX and equities.
• Develop automated and discretionary trading systems for currency, commodity futures, and equities markets.
• Assist in audits from FINRA at corporate and branch levels.
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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.