Day trader vs flow trader

Differences between day trader and flow trader duties and responsibilities

Day trader example responsibilities.

• Day-Trade stocks on the NASDAQ and NYSE, and achieve positive returns through an analysis of trends base on moving averages.
• Manage business, sales, marketing, international negotiation and communication for a commodities business.
• Trade equities and derivatives for long term investment and short term trading purposes while utilizing proper risk management
• Engage in market speculation of various commodities, rapid scalping of mini futures contracts & ETF's.
• Perform a financial analysis, risk assessment of various publicly trade companies on the NYSE, NASDQ and CME.
• Enter buy/sell orders for NASDAQ stocks
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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.