Moving From Credit Research to Credit Trading?

Hey all, I am starting as a 1st year credit research analyst at one of the BB's soon and was curious about the flexibility to move from the publishing research role to a desk analyst/trader position. Just some questions below:

How often do people make this switch/is it common?  What sectors would make the easiest switch?  I haven't yet been given a sector but was very interested in potentially doing HY/LL Strategy, and if that fails going into some HY sector.  Would doing strategy instead of a traditional coverage universe change the likely hood of moving into trading?  

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