Where a stock trader can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a stock trader already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Stock traders use their technical expertise of financial markets performance to advise and make recommendations to asset managers or shareholders for a profitable investment strategy, keeping in mind the company’s performance. They use stock market trading operations and deal with a wide array of taxes, commissions and fiscal obligations. Stock traders buy and sell bonds, stocks, futures and shares in hedge funds. They perform detailed micro- and macroeconomic and industry specific technical analysis.
Also known as equity trader, stock exchange floor trader, investment dealer.
Technicians and associate professionals 33 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: financial broker, 69%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A stock trader needs 16 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- trading software information and communication technologies (icts)
- asset management business, administration and law
- trade securities communication, collaboration and creativity
- perform stock valuation information skills
- forecast economic trends information skills
- modern portfolio theory business, administration and law
- stock market business, administration and law
- analyse economic trends information skills
- financial jurisdiction business, administration and law
- financial markets business, administration and law
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a stock trader does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- securities trader 80% covered · difficulty 22.9
- financial trader 77% covered · difficulty 25.4
- mutual fund broker 75% covered · difficulty 27.7
- securities analyst 74% covered · difficulty 28.3
- securities broker 74% covered · difficulty 28.8
- foreign exchange broker 69% covered · difficulty 33.2
- foreign exchange trader 67% covered · difficulty 34.7
- investment analyst 64% covered · difficulty 36.6
- investment fund management assistant 60% covered · difficulty 40.9
- commodity trader 50% covered · difficulty 49.2
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Stock trader is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a stock 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.