How to become a financial derivatives dealer
Official title: Financial derivatives dealer
Also called: Financial futures dealer, Futures trader, Financial futures dealer, Futures trader
Financial derivatives dealer buys and sells financial derivatives on his/her own account or employer’s account. He/she executes trading activities as per trading plans, monitors portfolio positions and market conditions.
Main tasks
- Analysing market trends for securities, bonds, stocks and other financial instruments, including foreign exchange
Ways in
- University: Business & Commerce degrees, Offered by 6 universities in Singapore
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.
Related jobs
- Securities/Finance dealer
- Foreign exchange dealer
- Accountant (excluding tax accountant)
- Energy portfolio manager
- Auditor (accounting)
- Tax accountant
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Questions people ask
How do I become a financial derivatives dealer?
Ways in include: Business & Commerce degrees.
Will AI change the work of a financial derivatives dealer?
Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026