futures trader
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.
Also called: futures contracts manager, spreader, arbitrageur
- 10
- essential skills
- 15
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
- 3311
- ISCO-08 group
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Optional skills
15- actuarial science
- banking activities
- financial forecasting
- financial jurisdiction
- financial products
- international commercial transactions rules
- international law
- maintain records of financial transactions
- negotiate sale of commodities
- negotiate sales contracts
- operate financial instruments
- securities
- statistics
- trace financial transactions
- trade securities
Definition and skills from ESCO, published by the European Commission. Source concept
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