Flow Rate Sales

Hi WSO,

I have an interview for a Flow Rate Sales position soon at a bulge bracket bank in Europe. The problem is that I am not 100% sure about what Flow Rate Sales is and I can't find that much about it on google. It would be much appreciated if somebody here on WSO could help me to clarify it.

My questions are:

- What is Flow Rate Sales?

- What do you do if you work with Flow Rate Sales?

- Do you work with both equities and Fixed Income?

- What should I focus on in my preparations for the interview?

The interview is soon so quick responses are appreciated.

Many thanks!!

/CP30

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Excerpted from a Guardian article:

"You've got prop traders who use the bank's money to make money for the bank. And flow traders, like me, who trade on behalf of clients. Again, a huge difference."

"How it works in flow trading. At the beginning of the day I have "a view" of how the market will go. On that basis I will take "positions". Then I wait for clients to call, or be called by our salespeople, who want to buy some of that position. We pocket a commission for doing so, and we may make money from the margin between what I bought the contracts for, and what I sold them on to clients for."

Flow is explained above, sales means you'll be pitching things to clients / otherwise handling client interaction, and the "rates" part probably refers to interest rate products.

 

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