Manager - Trade Sales - BFS

Sales traders - take instructions from the client and act as intermediaries between the client and the people who execute the trades (flow and propriety traders).

Responsibilities differ slightly between the three types of trader. Flow and propriety traders- tasks include: 

- Collating relevant information and data

- Liaising closely with sales staff and inter-dealer brokers

- Determining market sentiment via research, valuation and data analysis

- Monitoring UK and international market performance

- Making prices in specific products

- Providing key parties with daily trading information

- Informing sales staff about market movements/prices

- Executing trades

- Gaining information from sales staff about client issues.

- Sales traders focus more heavily on client relationships, so they also secure deals with new clients, present ideas to clients and develop these relationships.