Securities trader vs flow trader

Differences between securities trader and flow trader duties and responsibilities

Securities trader example responsibilities.

• Research, analyze, and invest in equities in order to achieve short term capital gains.
• Manage business, sales, marketing, international negotiation and communication for a commodities business.
• Collaborate with partners in trading domestic equities, international equities, corporate bonds, and sovereign debt instruments.
• Carry out NYSE and NASDAQ equity trading on behalf of institutional clientele and register investment advisors.
• Execute institutional equity orders on both an agency and proprietary basis in strict accordance to FINRA regulations and establish company guidelines.
• Trade multiple products on SGX, CBOT, CME, HKFE, TSE, EUREX and LIFFE exchanges.
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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.