Market Maker in all types of equites and options. Principal trader for NYSE, AMEX, NASDAQ and OTC markets, Options as well as foreign securities ADRs including Europe, Asia, and CAN. • Execution Trader across entire firm for incoming Agency orders.• Execute and manage Retail and Institutional orders.• Equities and Options trader for both High Touch and Low Touch.• Pairs trader for Institutional sales desk• Execute accurately across numerous asset classes both long side and short side.• Maintain good relationships with research sales team as well as clients to provide best execution on all incoming orders.• Maintain communication with portfolio managers for effective trading strategies.• Provides executions using algorithms such as TWAPS, VWAPS, POV midpoints and dark pools.• Provides best execution for retail order flow along with trading principally to ensure customer receives best execution.• Provides trade flow, ideas, and color to sales desk and portfolio managers.• Notifies clients of recent news, events, maker conditions or significant changes in their current holdings so they can act accordingly as soon as possible.• Provides customer order updates so clients can receive the best execution available at the best cost to the client.• Maintains relationships with brokers and floor brokers and market makers to access best execution and liquidity.• Follows entire life of trade from execution to allocation to settlement.• Provides execution in Option strategies such as Spreads, Straddles, Strangles and Butterflies.• Monitors Client risk exposure.• Monitors customer order connectivity.• Maintains healthy system operation to act accordingly to resolve issues.• Electronic confirmations via DTCC• Follow up and correct on settlement breaks.• Coordinate with system developers to help improve OMS software.• Monitor customer Risk limits.• Handle all outage situations.• Involved with compliance to ensure proper operations of daily business

Specialized in market making NASDAQ, listed, OTC bulletin board / pink sheet equities including Gray market securities and ETFs. Performed as proprietary trader for domestic securities based on exchanges such as NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ, OTC securities and ETFs to allow flexibility in multiple markets. Also specialized in complexities of foreign markets including: Europe, Asia, Canada, and Australia as well as ADRs. Acted as risk arbitrage execution trader dealing in U.S. domestic mergers and acquisitions making markets in highly lucrative arbitrage deals.• Planned, coordinated, and performed diverse trading functions in various sectors, reducing costs and time while processing and executing order flow. • Researched information and performed numerous trading methods, identifying and capitalizing on market opportunities that expedited order execution. • Developed and maintained good and lucrative work alliances with sales team, maximizing order flow and commission revenues.• Assisted sales force in identifying customer preferences of equity products in all retail sectors such as consumer, technology, biotech, healthcare, and OTC bankruptcies allowing customers to effectively execute block orders as quick as possible. • Analyzed market conditions and news developments, executing effective and profitable trading strategies, maximizing profits, and minimizing risk through careful management of equity positions and firm capital.• Facilitated flow of information to and from sales traders by maintaining open lines of communication and speeding up process of effectively informing customers in timely fashion.• Performed trade executions, meeting deadlines for both Institutional and broker dealer clients including electronic trading order flow ahead of competition for timely executions.• Established order flow using algorithms and manual executions including dark pools, midpoints, TWAPS, VWAPS and POV strategies allowing clients access to elusive markets.

Provided trade support to products such as listed NYSE / AMEX equities, NASDAQ equities, OTC equities and foreign equities including ADRs for speedy system execution and incoming order flow. Worked closely with traders to solve technical problems to provide timely level 1 and level 2 support and solved minimal order issues from customers.Set up trader lists, allowing traders to be best prepared on daily basis, entering and / or correcting trades as needed preventing discrepancies that could prolong issues. Worked closely with electronic trading desk, solving discrepancies for maximum pnl, while ensuring all data communicated correctly. Monitored and reported the status and health of systems to make sure minimal issues occurred. Served as the primary technical contact for brokers and exchanges to solve discrepancies such as pricing issues, quantity issues and erroneous transactions.

Performed Middle office functions such as settling Options, futures, Bonds, Swaps, ETFs and Equity trades and discrepancies.Calculate Portfolio P&L as well as Repo and Volatility.Update prices for trade settlementAssist traders in reconciling Equities, Funds, Options, Futures, ETFs and Swaps.Solve discrepancies for position breaks and price breaks.Settle and update corporate actions.Perform tasks such as system entries for all securities for domestic and international markets.

Actively communicate relationships between banks, major corporations, broker/dealers, municipalities, insurance firms and financial planners.Primary contact for all client servicing needs such as execution and processing of trades generated daily trade settlements, provided fund information and recommendations for load and no load funds.Client Relations - Maintain daily business activities and trade reconciliations as primary contact for top performing firms such as Merrill Lynch, Pershing, National Financial, Bear Stearns and Morgan Stanley.Big Bucks - Communicator between Institutional client and Mutual Fund trading desk for large trades that require special attention.Wire issues - Primary contact between Dreyfus and the Bank of New York to settle trades in excess of $1 million for special clients that are unable to settle wire payments on time.