Career Overlap Occupation record
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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.

Also known as commodity exchange floor trader, commodities trader, commodities trading manager, commodity handler.

Technicians and associate professionals 27 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: commodity broker, 73%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
commodity broker 73% covered foreign exchange trader 71% covered foreign exchange broker 62% covered securities underwriter 57% covered stock trader 50% covered commodity trader You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from commodity trader, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a commodity trader already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A commodity trader needs 13 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • trading software information and communication technologies (icts)
  • international trade business, administration and law
  • negotiate with stakeholders communication, collaboration and creativity
  • analyse economic trends information skills
  • commercial law business, administration and law
  • negotiate sale of commodities communication, collaboration and creativity
  • financial jurisdiction business, administration and law
  • financial markets business, administration and law
  • economics social sciences, journalism and information
  • analyse market financial trends information skills
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a commodity trader does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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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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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a commodity trader’s work. 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.