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Market evidence report — financial-trader
Source: 39 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 39), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-11. This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is reproduced (copyright / platform terms).
Seniority distribution
| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 31 | 79 % |
| junior | 5 | 13 % |
| senior | 2 | 5 % |
| n/a | 1 | 3 % |
Tools — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Python | 14 | 36 % |
| 2 | SQL | 7 | 18 % |
| 3 | Microsoft Excel | 6 | 15 % |
| 4 | Bloomberg | 5 | 13 % |
Hard skills — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | risk management | 18 | 46 % |
| 2 | market analysis | 9 | 23 % |
| 3 | data analysis | 8 | 21 % |
| 4 | equity trading | 6 | 15 % |
| 5 | options trading | 5 | 13 % |
| 6 | trade execution | 5 | 13 % |
| 7 | financial modeling | 3 | 8 % |
| 8 | fixed income trading | 3 | 8 % |
| 9 | market making | 3 | 8 % |
| 10 | quantitative modeling | 3 | 8 % |
| 11 | securities lending | 3 | 8 % |
Methods — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | electronic trading | 3 | 8 % |
Responsibilities — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trade execution | 6 | 15 % |
| 2 | risk management | 4 | 10 % |
| 3 | strategy development | 4 | 10 % |
| 4 | market analysis | 3 | 8 % |
Regional breakdown
Corpus note: 39 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.
US (us)
39 ads.
Top hard skills:
- risk management — 46 % (18 ads)
- market analysis — 23 % (9 ads)
- data analysis — 21 % (8 ads)
- equity trading — 15 % (6 ads)
- options trading — 13 % (5 ads)
- trade execution — 13 % (5 ads)
- financial modeling — 8 % (3 ads)
- fixed income trading — 8 % (3 ads)
- market making — 8 % (3 ads)
- quantitative modeling — 8 % (3 ads)
Top tools:
- Python — 36 % (14 ads)
- SQL — 18 % (7 ads)
- Microsoft Excel — 15 % (6 ads)
- Bloomberg — 13 % (5 ads)
- C++ — 5 % (2 ads)
- Linux — 5 % (2 ads)
- Microsoft PowerPoint — 5 % (2 ads)
- Microsoft Word — 5 % (2 ads)
- MS Excel — 5 % (2 ads)
- NumPy — 5 % (2 ads)
Seniority: mid 79 % · junior 13 % · senior 5 % · n/a 3 %
UK (gb)
Insufficient evidence — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.
EU/DACH (de, at, ch, nl)
Insufficient evidence — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.
Job title variants in the market
| Title | Ads |
|---|---|
| Agency Securities Finance Trader-VP | 2 |
| Equities Trader – Capital Allocation Program – Washington, DC Area | 2 |
| Associate, Fixed Income Securities Lending Trader, BlackRock Global Markets (BGM) | 1 |
| Buy Side/Prop Trader, PM | 1 |
| Capital-Backed Trader – Equities & Options – Washington, DC Area | 1 |
| Client Execution Trading | 1 |
| Corporate Equity Derivatives Trader | 1 |
| Designated Market Maker (DMM) Trader - Intern (US) | 1 |
| Equity Trader | 1 |
| Experienced Equity Discretionary Trader | 1 |
| Fixed Income Financing Trading - Analyst | 1 |
| Fixed Income Financing Trading – Analyst | 1 |
| Fixed Income Trader Consultant - Remote | 1 |
| FX Options Trader - Associate | 1 |
| G10 Non-USD Rates and FX Trader | 1 |
| Global Alpha Trader (GLOBAL) | 1 |
| Institutional Trader | 1 |
| Junior Trader - Fixed Income, Municipal Trading | 1 |
| NYSE Floor Trader | 1 |
| Operations Associate and Trader (West Financial Services - Registered Investment Advisor (RIA)) | 1 |
| Proprietary Trading Intern (New York) – Summer 2027 | 1 |
| Quantitative Trader | 1 |
| Quantitative Trader/Researcher - Futures | 1 |
| Remote Junior Finance AI Trader | 1 |
| Securities Trader II | 1 |
Methodology: entities extracted per ad ({hard_skills, tools, methods, responsibilities, seniority}), normalized, counted as DISTINCT ads per entity; report threshold ≥ 3 ads. Headline sections in skills.md/tools.md use the stricter ≥ 20 % threshold.