Also called: Trade Surveillance Analyst
Watches trading for signs of manipulation like spoofing, pump-and-dumps and insider trading.
An alert pops up: someone placed and canceled thousands of orders to fake demand. You replay the trades, find the pattern and send a referral to regulators.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in finance or economics.
Ways in: 4-year college, Certification. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Finance, Economics, Data Science.
Growing about average. Growing with electronic trading.
Medium risk in 5 years, high in 10. Algorithms flag spoofing and insider trades; AI increasingly clears false alerts, so fewer analysts review what is left.
Classes: AP Statistics, AP Macroeconomics, Computer science.
Official data: O*NET occupation 13-1041.
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