Where a commodity trader can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a commodity trader already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Commodity traders use negotiation techniques to sell and buy physical goods and raw materials such as gold, cattle, oil, cotton and wheat on the trading floor. They receive and implement purchasing and selling instructions and negotiate the terms of sale and delivery of commodities. Commodity traders do research about market conditions of specific commodities, their price trends and demand in order to inform their employers, they make bid offers and calculate the cost of transactions.

Table 1 · Within reach

• commodity broker 73% covered · difficulty 27.8
• foreign exchange trader 71% covered · difficulty 29.9
• foreign exchange broker 62% covered · difficulty 38.7
• securities underwriter 57% covered · difficulty 41.8
• stock trader 50% covered · difficulty 49.2

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commodity trader is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.

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Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a commodity trader already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.