Equity Derivatives Trader

thepay · March 12th, 2002, 9:53 am

What does they do everyday? How's the work?

remibi · March 12th, 2002, 11:05 am

I guess they look outside to see if the sun is shining or not!!

David · March 12th, 2002, 2:53 pm

Equity derivative traders are not dealing with derivative products solely. Therefore, in effort to refine your question, there are the equity arbitrage desk and the exotic product desk with some combination. Thus, the daily routine at work of the two traders might be completely different from the other. So, which one?

skeptible · March 12th, 2002, 6:42 pm

We can further add: dispersion trading strategies, special situations, sector trading (financials, healthcare), ETFs(like QQQ, SPY), risk arb(corporate actions), the indices (SPX, NDX, RTY), emerging markets, basket trading, equity linked notes, and converts. These are pretty much all the flavors I've worked with as a product controller.

reza · March 12th, 2002, 7:20 pm

depends on the desk, depends on the traderI know it sounds over-simplifying but it's so true

thepay · March 14th, 2002, 9:07 am

How about Convertibles? and RIsk arbitrage?