6 Jobs That Use Financial Markets The Most

Jobs that use financial markets the most include market editor, proprietary trader, and equity trader.

Rank	Job title	Salary	% of all skills	Job openings
1	Market Editor	$58,520	14%	13,391
2	Proprietary Trader	$100,019	8%	541
3	Equity Trader	$101,759	8%	17,507
4	Futures Trader	$109,622	7%	10,795
5	Trader	$90,179	6%	17,351
6	Market Maker	$108,335	6%	17,618

What jobs use Financial Markets the most?

1. Market Editor

How market editor uses Financial Markets:

Recruit to relaunch fashion editorial capturing a younger audience; promote to manage the fashion department resulting in increase reader satisfaction.
Leverage meticulous attention to detail in technical editing and proofreading all content from project inception to completion.
Assess financial performance of editorial sales and continually work to document what resonate with customers and integrate learning to improve performance.

Most common skills for market editor:

Financial Markets
Photo Shoots
Market Appointments
Feature Stories
Petrochemicals
Editorials

Jobs

2. Proprietary Trader

How proprietary trader uses Financial Markets:

Manage business, sales, marketing, international negotiation and communication for a commodities business.
Perform qualitative research on potential risk arbitrage positions and subjectively choose equities for inclusion in a risk arbitrage portfolio.
Research market strategies and trends using Bloomberg.

Most common skills for proprietary trader:

Technical Analysis
Equity Markets
Equities
Financial Markets
Portfolio
Fundamental Analysis

Jobs Responsibilities

3. Equity Trader

How equity trader uses Financial Markets:

Design end-to-end index carve-out process to enable desk to risk manage and track PnL for global index trades.
Manage stock execution via NYSE automate system, NASDAQ automate system (INSTINET), and live NASDAQ market makers.
Manage business, sales, marketing, international negotiation and communication for a commodities business.

Most common skills for equity trader:

Equities
Technical Analysis
Portfolio
Financial Markets
Risk Management
Securities

Jobs Responsibilities Resume

4. Futures Trader

How futures trader uses Financial Markets:

Coordinate MBS and whole loan delivers to ensure settlements are achieve to minimize extension and pair off fees.
Trade a variety of investment vehicles including commodity futures, FOREX, equities, options and energies.
Create and report the trends of both international and domestic economy and finance status, and the trends of commodities prices.

Most common skills for futures trader:

Technical Analysis
Futures Markets
Financial Markets
Derivative
Risk Management
Futures Contracts

Jobs Responsibilities

5. Trader

How trader uses Financial Markets:

Manage Smithtown branch office ensuring compliance with NASD regulations.
Manage and hedge generation within PJM, MISO, and ERCOT.
Manage options trading to ensure a positive ROI within a volatile market.

Most common skills for trader:

Portfolio
Financial Markets
Derivative
Fixed Income
Equities
Securities