Job Satisfaction at Flow Traders

Learn about trading strategies and the methodology behind Flow trader's trading

Job is all about precision and focus when markets are open - take advantage of every opportunity and make no mistakes. The company is the best at what it does, each trader should uphold this each and every day.

look for opportunities wherever an arbitrage is possible and try to make a strategy to target that specific opportunity and make money,

While in training at the company's headquarters in Amsterdam, I have received detailed instruction in the methodology and approach of the company, from a global perspective down to all the little details and differences from desk to desk and product to product. We practice on and familiarize ourselves with the company's high-quality in-house software and learn directly from experienced traders to prepare us for entry into the stock market. On top of classes and assignments, new hires are also encouraged to develop, back-test, and implement new trading strategies, not only as a useful exercise but really with the goal of identifying new potential revenue streams for the company. As a relatively young firm in the company, there is a very entrepreneurial climate and, despite the extremely flat corporate structure, this allows new hires to quickly take on a great deal of responsibility.

Involved in tracking all the market information. Developing future strategies for the company.

My role is of a junior traders and we are in our training process where we have a trading project and we trade the market based on strategies devised on our own. We have to maintain positions in the market, make sure our algorithms do good trades and keep improving the whole system.

As a Junior Trader, you are expected to watch and learn from more experienced traders and simulations, develop new strategies, and look for new opportunities. After two months in the job, you are assigned to a trading desk where you will effectively trade.