A stock trader is a person in a securities company who is responsible for placing orders and engaging in stock trading according to instructions. Stock traders do not need very professional knowledge, but they must have strong sensitivity to numbers, active thinking, quick response, and good market analysis and prediction capabilities. Stock traders are divided into general stock traders and senior stock traders.

Forex traders refer to technical personnel or a collection of personnel who have undergone intensive trading training and professionally manage and execute foreign exchange transactions. Requires sustained and stable trading profitability. There is no formal position of foreign exchange trader in China, and similar foreign exchange traders only appear on many foreign exchange platforms and agency companies. Due to the lack of professional and intensive trading training, they generally do not have sustained and stable trading profitability, so they are generally called foreign exchange traders.

Forex traders are essentially different from the so-called traders in the current industry:

First, traders are more about mechanical execution of transactions, management of defective transactions and continuous trading. Stable profitability;

Secondly, traders are driven by extremely strict winning behavior, which is the center of trading behavior, including code of conduct, emotional control, fund management, risk control, etc.;

Third, traders, in a broad sense, refer to traders who can sustain stable trading profits, and in a narrow sense, they only refer to floor traders.

The difference between stock traders and foreign exchange traders: Stock traders mainly operate the stock market and mainly study listed companies; while foreign exchange traders mainly study the foreign exchange market and mainly study exchange rate changes. Secondly, stock traders do not need to have very professional knowledge, while foreign exchange traders need to undergo intensive trading training.