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Trading assistant resume examples from 2025

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Updated March 26, 2025
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How to write a trading assistant resume

Craft a resume summary statement

Your resume summary sums up your experience and skills, making it easy for hiring managers to understand your qualifications at a glance. Here are some tips to writing the most important 2-4 sentences of your resume:

Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.

Step 2: Include your years of experience in trading assistant-related roles. Consider adding relevant company and industry experience as relevant to the job listing.

Step 3: Highlight your greatest accomplishments. Here is your chance to make sure your biggest wins aren't buried in your resume.

Step 4: Again, keep it short. Your goal is to summarize your experience and highlight your accomplishments, not write a paragraph.

These tips will help you demonstrate why you are the perfect fit for the trading assistant position.

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List the right project manager skills

Use your Skills section to show you have the knowledge and technical ability to do the job. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:

  1. Look at the job listing and skills listed. You need to include the exact keywords from the job description to get your resume in front of an actual human. Do you have those skills? Fantastic! Be sure to list them.
  2. Include as many relevant hard or technical trading assistant skills as possible for each job you apply to.
  3. Be specific with the skills you have and be sure you are using the most up to date and accurate terms.
These five steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some trading assistant interviews.

Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a trading assistant resume:

  • Trade Shows
  • P/L
  • Securities
  • Portfolio
  • Bloomberg
  • Fixed Income
  • VBA
  • Risk Management
  • Income Products
  • Equities
  • Foreign Exchange
  • Market Research
  • Derivative
  • MBS
  • Trade Support
  • Equity Trades
  • Market Data
  • Customer Accounts
  • PnL
  • Trade Settlement
  • Customer Orders
  • HVAC
  • Client Accounts
  • International Trade
  • Settlement Issues
  • Interest Rate Derivatives
  • NYSE
  • Trade Tickets
  • Expense Reports
  • Corporate Actions

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How to structure your work experience

Next you should include your work experience. Structure your work experience section by listing your most recent experience first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order.

Start with your job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.

Include only recent, relevant jobs. Avoid including work experience over 20 years to avoid ageism.

Beneath each job, you should have bullet points to emphasize why you're the perfect fit for the trading assistant.

How to write trading assistant experience bullet points

Effective job bullet points do more than just describe your job duties. Instead, they should be specific and measurable accomplishments. Here are some strategies to mastering job bullet points:

  • Use strong action verbs like Led, Built, or Optimized.
  • Follow up with numbers when possible to support your results. How much did performance improve? How much revenue did you drive?
  • Wrap it up by explaining the actions you took to achieve the result and how you made an impact.

Here are effective examples from trading assistant resumes:

Work history example #1

Trading Assistant

Credit Suisse

  • Researched securities on Bloomberg, DTC, FNMA and FHMC websites.
  • Borrowed and lent ADR's, negotiated rates based on market conditions.
  • Provided timely market and order flow indications and ongoing equity research product to customers.
  • Worked with Credit Suisse OTC and Listed Block Desks in New York and directly with customers, executing institutional size orders.
  • Completed and held FINRA Series 7, 63 and 55 licenses.

Work history example #2

Trading Assistant

Citi

  • Processed treasury options, commodities, relative value & CMBS trades as immediate coverage for other desks.
  • Assisted finance dept with the daily P/L check and investigated all issues.
  • Functioned as lead problem solver interacting with various departments interacting with NYSE floor.
  • Assisted Emerging Market fixed income traders with the daily trading activities of on average 400 million bonds.
  • Retrieved and distributed international treasury prices and yield curves from Bloomberg, as well as investment reports for each country.

Work history example #3

Legal Extern

Greater Boston Legal Services

  • Co-conducted numerous client-counseling sessions with supervising attorney in fault and no-fault eviction cases.
  • Created PowerPoint presentation used to train staff on managing copyright and trademark infringement risk.

Work history example #4

Trading Assistant (Part-Time)

T3

  • Initiated short-term equity trades using macroeconomic trends, company specific news, and technical analysis.
  • Traded NYSE, AMEX, equities based on proprietary technical analysis and fundamental research.
  • Established a solid firm presence in various CBOE pits.
  • Booked and allocated all domestic/international equity and options trades daily.
  • Reconciled short-term market clients/custodians yield discrepancies in money market portfolios.

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Add an education section to your resume

Employers are looking for a few things when looking at the Education section of your resume:
  • The highest degree you have achieved.
  • TWhere you attended school, and the dates (Although if you graduated some time ago, leave the date off to avoid ageism)
  • TField of study
  • TAny honors, relevant coursework, achievements, or pertinent activities

Here are some examples of good education entries from trading assistant resumes:

Master's Degree in english

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

2016 - 2017

Master's Degree in fine arts

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2007 - 2008

Highlight your trading assistant certifications on your resume

Certifications are a great way to showcase special expertise or niche skills. Some jobs even require certifications to be hired.

To list, use the full name of the certification and the organization that issued it, along with the date of achievement.

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