Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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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.

Technicians and associate professionals 33 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: financial broker, 69%

financial broker 69% covered stock broker 69% covered mutual fund broker 68% covered securities broker 68% covered securities underwriter 67% covered stock trader You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from stock trader. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a stock 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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stock 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 stock 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.