3.9 KiB
3.9 KiB
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)
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 %