Financial Dealers

Financial Dealers conduct financial market transactions on behalf of clients.

What the job involves

• Obtaining information on securities, market conditions, government regulations and financial circumstances of clients

• Interpreting data from securities reports, financial periodicals and stock-quotation viewer screens

• Analysing financial markets and financial market products

• Providing information and offering advice on financial market matters, market conditions and the history and prospects of corporations

• Executing buy and sell orders in the market place on behalf of clients

• Relaying trade information to clients such as the number of contracts bought and sold and the price

• Monitoring futures prices and market changes, and bidding for commodity futures contracts

• Recording and transmitting buy and sell orders

• Calculating and recording costs of transactions