
Disciplined trading across equities and fixed income
Securities trader with nine years trading equities and fixed income for an asset manager and a brokerage in London. Executes and manages trades, prices risk, provides liquidity, and turns market views and client orders into well-executed positions while controlling risk. Improved execution quality and reduced trading costs by refining strategy and broker selection. Trades across cash equities, bonds and ETFs, manages a book and intraday risk, works orders for best execution, and partners with portfolio managers and sales. Strong on both the fast decision-making the desk demands and the discipline that keeps risk in check. Calm and decisive when markets move hard. Looking for a securities-trader or execution role with a fund, bank or trading firm running serious flow.
Securities Trader
Improved the execution quality and reduced the trading costs by refining strategy and broker selection.
Manage a trading book and the intraday risk and provide the liquidity to the desk.
Work all the client and portfolio orders for the best execution right across the markets.
Price the risk and turn all the market views into well-executed and tightly controlled positions.
Partner with all the portfolio managers and the sales desk on the flow and the strategy.
Junior Trader / Trading Assistant
Worked the orders and learned the market structure and risk processes.
Progressed through the CFA studies alongside the growing desk responsibility there.
Then earned a full securities-trader seat managing a trading book there.
Settlements Analyst
Learned how the trades clear, settle and flow through the bank.
Built up the market-plumbing knowledge that good trading is built on.
Then earned the move into a full trading-assistant role from there.
BSc (Hons) Economics & Finance
CFA Level II & Financial Markets Certification
CFA Institute (June 2016 to Present)
CISI (April 2019 to Present)
CISI (January 2017 to June 2017)
WorldQuant University (March 2021 to Present)
- Trade Execution
- Equities Trading
- Fixed Income
- Risk Management
- Best Execution
- Market Making / Liquidity
- Book Management
- Market Analysis
- Trading Systems
- Pricing
- Composure
- Decisiveness
- Discipline
- Numeracy
- Quick Thinking