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0-5 years of experience
Supported traders in the management of a $30 million portfolio; executed trades successfully according to pre-planned strategies
- Located hard to borrow stocks, enabling successful execution of up to 50,000 shares of stocks and ETF's
- Persuaded top trader to utilize better risk management techniques; led to 5% increase in profitability
- Assessed analytical trading software and contributed ideas to improve the software
- Changed standard operating procedure of the firm; led to 35% increase in customer satisfaction
- Developed trading strategy that outperformed all colleagues using both historical and live data
6-10 years of experience
Initially assisted broker in execution of Asian and European products then progressed to execution of house-desk clients business during European/US trading hours.
- Revamped client services to drive business and increase customer loyalty.
- Transformed a clearing business to an integral execution desk; resulting in a $3 million turn-around in revenues.
- Maintained a cohesive team environment with a diverse group of people resulting in an increase of productivity and revenue, by 30% YoY ($12 ~ $14 million in 3 years).
- Implemented development of customer friendly trading platform to improve monitoring systems of client risk and clearing in keeping with company guidelines.
6-10 years of experience
Employed since inception of long/short equity hedge fund; helped grow AUM to over $2 billion.
- Supported two Portfolio Managers, Chief Financial Officer, and five Equity Analysts.
- Reconciled portfolios daily between 4 prime brokers, fund administrator, and Eze Castle Software's OMS.
- Oversaw multiple soft dollar (CSA) relationships managing both commission credits and invoice payments.
- Assisted in updating the firm's compliance manual focusing on operational and trading procedures.
0-5 years of experience
Assistant Trader to FNY's ADR Arbitrage Trading group with main focus in the Hong Kong and Japanese markets
- Accurately executed trades in the domestic and foreign markets, and closely monitored the subsequent trade developments and immediately responded to any anomalies by informing senior traders or using self-discretion
- Reconciled daily cash, stocks and foreign currency positions, calculated daily trading desk cash flows, and generated day-end position and P&L statements for the senior traders
- Interacted daily with the backoffice accounting team to investigate and resolve any noted discrepancies
- Actively managed a short-term domestic portfolio with focus on trading equities with catalytic events (Quarterly Earnings, Restructuring, Regulatory Changes, FDA approval, and Macro news events)
- Assisted senior traders in the development of index arbitraging strategy for the U.S. and Canadian market.
- Interpreted and programmed Index Rebalancing Rules (S&P/TSX, S&P500, S&P Midcap, and NASDAQ) in Excel VBA to produce probable future index removal/addition candidates based on each company's current financial-state
6-10 years of experience
Employed since inception of long/short equity hedge fund; helped grow AUM to over $2 billion.
- Supported two Portfolio Managers, Chief Financial Officer, and five Equity Analysts.
- Reconciled portfolios daily between 4 prime brokers, fund administrator, and Eze Castle Software's OMS.
- Oversaw multiple soft dollar (CSA) relationships managing both commission credits and invoice payments.
- Assisted in updating the firm's compliance manual focusing on operational and trading procedures.
0-5 years of experience
Traded and monitored positions for absent traders and ran daily P&L for the firm
- Monitored the firm's risk exposure for its positions
- Created investment proposals and recommendations for emerging market opportunities
- Reviewed SEC filings including 10-q and 10-k documents in an attempt to discover the relevant earnings impact of recent developments and company announcements on the underlying businesses
- Monitored conference calls of senior company management, including earnings discussions and sector summits, to deliver timely and relevant information
- Created spreadsheets utilizing Bloomberg downloads and Excel macros to analyze daily trading data and forecast the possible impact of upcoming company and industry events
- Monitored and assessed current events and media publications to determine information important to the firm's risk management team; conveyed reports regarding this information to the team
0-5 years of experience
Worked closely with Analysts for stock recommendations, modeling, research and tracking.
- Produced weekly fundamental and technical market analysis for presentation to Investment Committee.
- Managed soft dollar reporting and analysis.
- Analyzed broker commission dollars and allocations verses client direction percentages.
- Prepared actual verses estimate and monthly reports of real and soft commission dollars.
- Satisfied RFP requests from marketing department for trading related inquires.
- Developed detailed commission tracking and reporting systems using excel functions coupled with trading OMS and accounting system.
0-5 years of experience
Largest option specialist book on the floor of the NYSE
- Assisted four traders in the trading of equities, derivatives, and futures on commodities and bonds
- Independently executed a small scale day-trading strategy on equities with 2011 profit of $51k
- Experienced in several trading systems and information databases - Tradespeed, X-Trader, Bloomberg, and Microsoft Excel
- Researched fundamental and technical trading strategies for firm implementation, conducted extensive analysis of company filings, conference calls, Bloomberg data, and trend identification
- Calculated each day's predicted P&L, actual P&L, and maintained accurate records
- Ensured that hedges were in place to maintain a delta neutral book
- Managed professional, friendly, and profitable relationships with our top ten brokers while actively seeking new business
0-5 years of experience
Responsible for trading NY Asian desk while simultaneously assisting Senior Dealers with client deal flow.
- Served as information source on FX markets, news, current quotes, and answering inquiries from brokers and traders.
- Developed daily accounting of market value changes for all traders and sales in N.A. Foreign Exchange.
- Conducted thorough analysis of differences between trading and reporting systems, while updating and maintaining daily FX spot and forward rates.
- Created projections for overnight holdings, analyzing trades and calculating interests.
- Managed key FX P&L systems integration project.
0-5 years of experience
Monitored the purchase and sales of equities and options based on management trading programs and orders
- Monitored the trades of options related to large scale orders for corporate clients
- Provided detailed arbitrage and market information to two brokers while ensuring proper trade execution, clearing activities and position accuracy
- Acquired knowledge and skills needed to communicate with clients without making an influence on their trading decisions
- Trilingual: Fluent in English, French and Arabic.
- Trade stocks and options on a weekly basis using two different platforms.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office; Word, Power point, Excel and basic Access experience.
0-5 years of experience
Processed trades and daily reconciliation of desk positions and profit and loss statement.
- Prepared daily offering sheet for distribution to sales force and client base.
- Maintained Excel-based ABS database for over 700 ABS issues, updated new issues, added and/or updated cash flows where needed.
- Compiled comprehensive prospectus file of asset backed securities issues.
- Prepared month-end quote sheet of over 400 ABS issues and mark to market of investor's portfolios.
- Worked closely with back office to resolve trade discrepancies and settlement issues.
0-5 years of experience
- Processed data using SQL, created Team Capacity Report and Performance Reports for bi-weekly planning meeting
- Conducted top-down equity research and applied long only strategy to manage $500,000 real money, traded equities and Exchange
- Developed strong knowledge of Electronic Vehicle industry by deeply conducting product line and company research
- Deployed a disciplined investing methodology, set entry and exit point based on fundamental and technical market analysis
- Explored the possibility of arbitrages on stocks, index futures and ETFs
0-5 years of experience
Executed ETF cash and option transactions in the International Index Department
- Communicated with brokers and floor specialists regarding day-to-day activities
- Maintained positions, P&L, and compiled and reconciled data from firm trades
- Accumulated customer metrics and prepared reports for biweekly meetings
- Reconciled daily activity for equity option specialists on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange
0-5 years of experience
Ensured delivery of loans to institutional investors ($1 million in average daily volume)
- Researched discrepancies with broker portfolios/adjusted monthly billing rates
- Calculated collateral requirements for equity and fixed income transactions
- Analyzed reorganization of international companies (i.e. stock splits, rights offer)
- Communicated client stock elections on outstanding (borrowed) securities
- Processed daily price adjustments according to NY, LON, Tokyo exchanges
6-10 years of experience
Effectively executed orders in the NASDAQ Market.
- Systematically monitored and balanced high profile trader's account positions.
- Handled and resolved trade discrepancies.
- Strong interpersonal skills resulted in client rapport and respect.
- Minimal required supervision and increased responsibility resulted in promotion to Assistant Trader. Formerly Senior Cashiers Clerk in the operations department, which encompassed all phases of the back office.
- Experience provided a solid foundation in the Trade industry.
0-5 years of experience
Closely interfaced with clients to provide daily updates, inquires and price changes.
- Executed large volume of retail orders (OTC, listed and add lots).
- Resolved trade issues in a timely fashion providing detailed reports.
- Heavy interaction with floor brokers to obtain quotes and executions and occasionally sat on New York Stock Exchange floor.
- Preformed investment transaction bookings into multiple accounting systems across the various products.
- Effectively trained and managed staff.
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