proprietary trader

Todd Edgar is a proprietary trader – trading with the bank's own money.

According to bankers, senior proprietary traders can expect to earn 16-17% of the profits they make.

The firm's proprietary traders weren't faring very well, either.

While many proprietary traders have made the switch to hedge funds, prosperity is far from guaranteed.

That is because of pay arrangements at the firm that favored proprietary traders.

This may push proprietary traders out of banks and into hedge funds, where they properly belong.

Under the new plan, only proprietary traders, who work with the firm's own capital, have their compensation linked to their individual performance.

But proprietary traders who sit at desks where they can overhear colleagues doing business with customers have an edge.

He has also been a proprietary trader and Nasdaq Market Maker.

It has also agreed to reduce proprietary risk, suggesting that proprietary traders could be under threat.

And though he was a little surprised by Prior’s single-minded drive to become a proprietary trader he admired it.

If past years are anything to go by, expect a convoluted game of hide-and-seek between index buyers and proprietary traders.

A second pernicious outcome of the old rules was that they turned investment banks from intermediaries to proprietary traders.

A proprietary trader and hedge fund manager explains the benefits of hiring good people instead of nice ones.

In fact, the greatest dangers to these retail banks were not investment bankers or proprietary traders, but their own lending practices.

However, proprietary traders who exert significant influence in relation to the general conduct of the firm will be in the regime.

They must regulate the compensation packages of proprietary traders so that risks and rewards are properly aligned.

Zachary Michaelson has over five years of experience as a global macro portfolio manager and proprietary trader.

While the company may not have had the sharpest proprietary traders or a reputation for innovative and aggressive financing deals, it didn't need to.

Is he a Goldman proprietary trader?

The Financial Services Authority is planning to step up its regulation of proprietary traders, or those who invest a bank’s own capital.

And this is all being presented as more innocent than it really is, that banks are "scrambling to find new positions for star proprietary traders".

The bank allowed him to become a proprietary trader, which meant he was betting the bank's money, an unusually aggressive strategy for a regional bank.

So, rather than being an intermediary to its clients, SwiftTrade was said to have been acting as a proprietary trader.

Short position - bets on lower prices - covering by short term investors and bank proprietary traders will also help. '