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SSOC 2024 unit

Manufacturing Verified · 21 Mar 2024

24142

Foreign exchange dealer

Foreign exchange dealer buys and sells foreign currencies on his/her own account or employer’s account, in order to secure a profit on fluctuations in foreign exchange rates. He/she executes trading activities as per trading plans, monitors portfolio positions and market conditions. He/she undertakes technical analysis of economic information (market liquidity and volatility) to predict the future rates of currencies on the foreign exchange market.

Level

unit

Mapped ISCO

1

Source

SingStat

In this unit group: sibling units

Official data

Official nameSingapore Standard Industrial Classification (SSOC 2024)
Issuing authorityDepartment of Statistics Singapore (SingStat / DOS)
Tax authorityInland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) (IRAS)
PurposeClassifies occupations in Singapore for labour statistics, workforce planning, and international reporting.
Active versionSSOC 2024 (21 Mar 2024)
Hierarchy levelUnit (final leaf, 5-digit)
Sourcehttps://www.singstat.gov.sg/standards/standards-and-classifications/ssic
Prior versionsSSIC 2020, SSIC 2015

Definition & tasks

Foreign exchange dealer buys and sells foreign currencies on his/her own account or employer’s account, in order to secure a profit on fluctuations in foreign exchange rates. He/she executes trading activities as per trading plans, monitors portfolio positions and market conditions. He/she undertakes technical analysis of economic information (market liquidity and volatility) to predict the future rates of currencies on the foreign exchange market.

Tasks

No tasks listed.

Examples

Under this unit

No examples found.

Elsewhere

No exclusion examples found.

Hierarchy context

2→24→241→2414→24142 Foreign exchange dealer

Correspondence tables

SSOC 2020

  • 24142 — Foreign exchange dealer

ISCO-08

  • 3311 — Securities and finance dealers and brokers

Alphabetical index entries

Data source: Department of Statistics Singapore (SingStat / DOS) (https://www.singstat.gov.sg/standards/standards-and-classifications/ssic). Official SSOC 2024 workbooks.

Last refresh: 21 Mar 2024. Version: SSOC 2024.

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