Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a futures trader can go next

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

Futures traders undertake daily trading activities in the futures trading market by buying and selling futures contracts. They speculate on the futures contracts' direction, trying to make a profit by buying futures contracts they foresee to rise in price and sell contracts they foresee to fall in price.

Technicians and associate professionals 25 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: commodity trader, 77%

commodity trader 77% covered foreign exchange trader 69% covered securities underwriter 65% covered commodity broker 63% covered foreign exchange broker 62% covered futures trader You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from futures trader. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a futures trader already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

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futures 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

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a futures 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.