# Competences — futures trader

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/fc81b573-e0ea-4466-8560-c2bb278c314a).

## Essential

- **analyse economic trends** (skill/competence)
- **analyse financial risk** (skill/competence)
- **analyse market financial trends** (skill/competence)
- **commercial law** (knowledge)
- **economics** (knowledge)
- **financial markets** (knowledge)
- **forecast economic trends** (skill/competence)
- **international trade** (knowledge)
- **perform financial risk management in international trade** (skill/competence)
- **trade future commodities** (skill/competence)

## Optional

- actuarial science (knowledge)
- banking activities (knowledge)
- financial forecasting (knowledge)
- financial jurisdiction (knowledge)
- financial products (knowledge)
- international commercial transactions rules (knowledge)
- international law (knowledge)
- maintain records of financial transactions (skill/competence)
- negotiate sale of commodities (skill/competence)
- negotiate sales contracts (skill/competence)
- operate financial instruments (skill/competence)
- securities (knowledge)
- statistics (knowledge)
- trace financial transactions (skill/competence)
- trade securities (skill/competence)

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## Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 8 ads, as of 2026-07-12)

Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.

### Hard skills

- risk management — **75 %**
- futures trading — **50 %**
- portfolio management — **38 %**
- quantitative modeling — **25 %**
- derivative trading — **25 %**
- macroeconomic analysis — **25 %**
- market analysis — **12 %**
- equity trading — **12 %**
- execution strategy — **12 %**
- alpha generation — **12 %**
- data interpretation — **12 %**
- performance evaluation — **12 %**
- post-trade analysis — **12 %**
- post-trade evaluation — **12 %**
- pre-trade analysis — **12 %**
- portfolio performance monitoring — **12 %**
- market structure understanding — **12 %**
- microstructure analysis — **12 %**
- trading strategy design — **12 %**
- trading strategy development — **12 %**
- trading strategy execution — **12 %**
- quantitative trading — **12 %**
- rates trading — **12 %**
- quantitative analysis — **12 %**
- relative value trading — **12 %**
- signal processing — **12 %**
- statistical analysis — **12 %**
- statistical modeling — **12 %**
- strategy development — **12 %**

### Methods

- systematic trading — **25 %**
- proprietary trading — **25 %**
- quantitative techniques — **12 %**
- hft — **12 %**
- intraday trading — **12 %**
- low-latency execution — **12 %**
- low-latency trading — **12 %**
- market making — **12 %**
- short-term trading — **12 %**
- relative value strategies — **12 %**

### Responsibilities

- strategy development — **38 %**
- research — **25 %**
- risk compliance — **25 %**
- trade execution — **25 %**
- trading futures products — **25 %**
- market analysis — **25 %**
- capital scaling — **25 %**
- idea sharing — **12 %**
- market condition monitoring — **12 %**
- market monitoring — **12 %**
- market opportunity adaptation — **12 %**
- performance optimization — **12 %**
- model development — **12 %**
- model improvement — **12 %**
- news monitoring — **12 %**
- portfolio risk management — **12 %**
- position management — **12 %**
- trading model implementation — **12 %**
- trading activities — **12 %**
- trading book risk management — **12 %**
- team collaboration — **12 %**
- risk management — **12 %**
- trading strategy execution — **12 %**
- trading strategy design — **12 %**
- risk exposure maintenance — **12 %**
- research and analysis — **12 %**
- regulatory compliance — **12 %**
- strategy execution — **12 %**
- strategy implementation — **12 %**
- strategy refinement — **12 %**
- strategy building — **12 %**

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