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A company's assets once all its debts have been paid off are called equities. Stocks and shares - also called equities - grant people who purchase them partial ownership over the company's assets.

Historically, equities have been traded on big international stock exchanges, like the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, the Shanghai Stock Exchange or Deutsche Börse. At present, while they are still traded there, a growing amount of equities trading is now taking place off-exchanges, in so-called "dark pools." This is because buyers and sellers of equities often prefer to trade anonymously and privately to avoid influencing the price of stocks with large orders to buy or sell.

Many different companies recruit equities staff, including large international banks, brokerage houses, agency traders, asset management firms and hedge funds.

The equities salesperson's job is to keep in contact with and win clients, whether they are rich private individuals, pension funds or other institutional investors, and to advise them on when they should buy or sell particular stocks.

Salespeople then get in contact with equities traders who carry out the trade on behalf of the client. In the simplest sense, traders act as market makers. Market makers quote clients both buy and sell prices for any stocks the client is interested in, while making a profit from the bid-offer spread. This is the difference between the price at which they buy the stock and the price at which they sell it to the client.

Trading cash or simple equity products usually now takes place electronically with automatic trading systems matching buyers and sellers. A large number of equities trades are now determined by algorithmic trading systems which use mathematical formulae dictating the best investment strategy. Despite all these systems, there is still a need for human intelligence. When large block trades are being placed, for example, execution traders may need to break these trades up into smaller and more manageable chunks to get the best price available in the market.

Sales traders working in equities are really a hybrid between salespeople and traders. This is because they first recommend products to their clients and then continue to execute the trades resulting from that advice.

Salespeople are also needed to sell electronic trading capabilities. Banks, for example, hire individuals to pitch to clients for their direct market access (DMA), or electronic trading systems.

Jobs in equities can also be for IT programmers, quants and equity researchers, all of whom may be required to support an organization's equity sales and trading capability.

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Automation Developer Spot Trading LLC TBD Chicago, IL, 60601 09 Feb 12

Automation Developer

Quant Trader Spot Trading LLC TBD Chicago, IL, 60601 09 Feb 12

Quant Trader

Oracle Technical Project Manager - HR - 123673 Interactive Data TBD Boston, MA, 02113 09 Feb 12

Oracle Technical Project Manager - HR - 123673

District Manager - Strategic Accounts Group (FL1) Interactive Data TBD New York, NY 09 Feb 12

District Manager - Strategic Accounts Group (FL1)

Financial Markets Information Administrator - 122441 Interactive Data TBD Boston, MA, 02113 09 Feb 12

Financial Markets Information Administrator - 122441

Sr Financial Markets Information Administrator - 122429 Interactive Data TBD Boston, MA, 02113 09 Feb 12

Sr Financial Markets Information Administrator - 122429

Business Development Manager Interactive Data TBD New York, NY 09 Feb 12

Business Development Manager

Network Operations Specialist Interactive Data TBD Hayward, CA, 94540 09 Feb 12

Network Operations Specialist

Quality Assurance Analyst Interactive Data TBD Santa Monica, CA 09 Feb 12

Quality Assurance Analyst

Account Executive Interactive Data TBD New York, NY 09 Feb 12

Account Executive

Senior Director, Reference Data Specialist Interactive Data TBD New York, NY 09 Feb 12

Senior Director, Reference Data Specialist

Broker Dealer Sales Executive Interactive Data TBD Chicago, IL, 60601 09 Feb 12

Broker Dealer Sales Executive

Financial Engineer - CDS Interactive Data TBD New York, NY 09 Feb 12

Financial Engineer - CDS

Methodology-Vantage Interactive Data TBD New York, NY 09 Feb 12

Methodology-Vantage

Equity Research Analyst - Latin America - Top Investment bank NJF Search International Highly Competitive plus Bonus New York, NY, 10001 09 Feb 12

I am currently working with a top investment bank that is looking to hire an Vice President level candidate to...

Equity Sales Trader Comprehensive Recruiting Competitive compensation and benefit pla... New York City, NY 09 Feb 12

Independent Broker Dealer with offices located throughout the Northeast seeks experienced Institutional Equity...

Java/C++ Equity Algorithmic Developers Rimrock Associates, Inc. 300k-500k New York, NY 09 Feb 12

Rimrock is looking for multiple developers for a number of different clients within the trading technology spa...

Cross-Asset Volatility Trader - Hedge Fund Huxley US$250000 - US$999999 per annum New York, NY, 10001 09 Feb 12

Contact Lars Gloessner - 212-707-8332 .

ALM/Treasury Middle Office P&L BNP Paribas not disclosed New York, NY 09 Feb 12

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Hedge Fund Analayst - Long / Short Equity - NYC, United States of America Not Disclosed Very Competitive New York, NY, 10001 09 Feb 12

New York; My client is a top Asset Management firm that is looking for a senior Hedge Fund analyst to join the...

Senior Institutional Equity Sales - NYC based Raiffeisen Centrobank AG competitive New York, NY, 10001 09 Feb 12

To build Raiffeisen Centrobank equities presence in the US we are looking for a seasoned CEE Equity Sales Repr...

ETF Flow Trader - NYC Selby Jennings Highly Competitive New York, NY, 10001 09 Feb 12

Trading, Equity, Derivatives, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), Index Option, Volatility, New York City, USA, High...

US Equity Sales - US to LatAm - NYC Selby Jennings Highly Competitive New York, NY, 10001 09 Feb 12

US Cash Equity Sales Latin American client focus Investment bank New York City

Equity Portfolio Specialist/Product Management Wellington Management Company, LLP Competitive Boston, MA, 02108 09 Feb 12

Equity Portfolio Specialist/Product Management

Energy Sector Strategist -Cash Equities, New York Newedge not disclosed New York, NY 08 Feb 12

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Tech & Telecom Sector Strategist -Cash Equities, New York Newedge not disclosed New York, NY 08 Feb 12

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Institutional Equity Sales- US Equities- Toronto Based Macquarie Information not provided New York, NY, 10001 08 Feb 12

Due to growth, we seek a US Equity Sales Professional, based in Toronto.

FIX Specialist/Consultant TTS Technology 220,000 Manhattan, NY, 10016 08 Feb 12

Spin-off of the #1 Investment Bank in the Country is looking for Multiple FIX On boarding Specialists.

Java Developer - Securities Lending - Vice President Continuity Partners, Inc. Base + Bonus New York, NY, 10019 08 Feb 12

Skills: Java, J2EE, JEE, JDBC, SQL, Spring, Hibernate, FIX, Linux, ANT Maven

Product Specialist- Pricing and Reference Data Thomson Reuters not disclosed Chicago, IL, 60601 08 Feb 12

the team provides onboarding and integration support to deliver our data assets including reference data, term...

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