Financial Market Dealer
What the work is
Buys and sells financial instruments within financial markets, and trades and distributes financial instruments on behalf of financial institutions.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Obtains information on securities, bonds, derivatives, market conditions, government regulations, and financial circumstances of clients
- Interprets data from reports, financial periodicals and stock-quotation viewer screens
- Analyses financial markets and financial market products
- Executes investment orders by buying and selling securities, bonds, treasury bills and other financial instruments for investors, fund managers or financial institutions
- Monitors futures prices and market changes, and bids for commodity futures contracts
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in the trading desk of a fictional broking firm, with screens everywhere. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- A client's order is filled cleanly in a fast market and they ring to say thanks
- You explain a confusing market move so well that a nervous client relaxes
- A quiet desk where every check you set up catches a mistake before it counts
Hard days
- A fast market where every second counts and small slips are expensive
- A client blames you for a result that was never in your control
- Early starts watching screens, then a long day of calls and records
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 212231, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.