<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (July 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (July 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> A stock trader or equity trader or share trader is a person or company involved in trading equity securities . Stock traders may be an agent, hedger, arbitrageur, speculator, stockbroker . </P> <P> Stock traders advise shareholders and help manage portfolios . Traders engage in buying and selling bonds, stocks, futures and shares in hedge funds . A stock trader also conducts extensive research and observation of how financial markets perform . This is accomplished through economic and microeconomic study; consequently, more advanced stock traders will delve into macroeconomics and industry specific technical analysis to track asset or corporate performance . Other duties of a stock trader include comparison of financial analysis to current and future regulation of his or her occupation . </P>

What do you call a person who trades stocks