What licenses do you need to take to trade commodities for a bank or energy firm?

Say you wanted to apply for analyst position to be a Commodities trader at Morgan Stanley or a trader at BP/Shell, what FINRA or other licenses do you need to obtain? Is it wise to obtain them before applying? Can you or do you need to be sponsored?

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Series 3. You don't need to be sponsored. I think it's like 125 for the test. I just took it a few months ago. It's not too hard, but if you don't score higher than 70% on the regulations you fail regardless of what you get on the rest of it.

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