I understand that sales people are the ones who pitch the ideas to clients and traders are the ones who execute the deals, but when people say that "trading is dead and or dying" does this apply to the sales part as well?
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No, salespeople will always be needed, because (at least for the forseeable future) AI will not have the emotional capabilities that humans have that is are needed to sell to clients and prospects. When people say that trading is dead or dying, most of them don't mean trading as a whole. Human market makers will always be needed, it';s just the more simple types of trading like execution trading that will be automated and handed over to AI.
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That's what I thought, in the forums that discussed this, people never addressed the sales aspect of this. thanks
Have you ever heard of symphony platform? Yeah... sales are slowly being automated. Will they be gone completely? No. But people will lose jobs

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Haven't heard of that. Interesting will have to check it out. I agree that the more mundane aspects (grunt work and that type of stuff) will definitely be automated. I work in the sales department of a quant AM firm, and I know that there is a lot of stuff that is being automated. I was more referring to the part where you actually have to sell to people. That requires more than just numbers and data, it requires emotion, which machines will never have, in my opinion.
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