High-Touch Sales Trading Agent
Works block trades and routes capital commitment to the desk head.
Reads the client order, sizes it against ADV, and works a strategy (algo, dark, or capital commitment) with the trade-offs scored. Agency flow it works straight through, streaming color to the client; anything that commits the bank's capital goes up to the desk head, who approves it with an independent risk-agent check in hand.
Authority
Recommend for approval
Team role
Completes a defined task
Handoffs
Named collaborators
The role
What it owns and where its authority ends
Desk
Cash Equities
Desk workflow
Order intake runs through venue and algo selection to execution, fills, allocation and TCA. A market-making agent streams two-sided quotes; a sales-trading agent works the blocks the algos can't.
Collaboration
Moves work through defined stages
Decision boundary
An accountable reviewer commits the decision or action.
Systems and capabilities involved
OMS/EMS
order + execution management
Algo suite
TCA + venue analytics
Client chat (Bloomberg/Symphony)
Desk head approval
risk agent re-derives as QA; desk head approves capital commitment
Handoffs
What this role gives and receives
Capabilities offered
The handoffs name the next owner or specialist and the work that moves between them.
Handoff to
Handoff to
External handoff
Operations (Trade Support) for booking
Context
What the role needs to do the work
- Current work
- The order, the working plan, fills so far vs. benchmark.
- Prior interactions
- This client's prior orders and execution preferences.
- Policies and reference
- Algo behaviors, venue toxicity, best-ex policy.
- Working method
- Strategy playbooks per order profile, refined from outcomes.
Illustrative workflow
How the work moves
Starting point
Client order: sell a mid-cap block sized at 8 percent of ADV, limit the footprint.
- 01
Estimate market impact; compare a VWAP slice against a dark-aggregation route.
- 02
Draft a working plan and the expected slippage band.
- 03
Send the agency strategy; stream color back to the client.
Result
Works the order via the chosen algo with live client updates; a principal-risk alternative waits on the accountable desk head's approval.
Checks and boundaries
What must be tested or reviewed
- 01Capital commitment and crossing decisions approved by the accountable desk head before commit, after a risk-agent re-derivation.
- 02Best-execution policy gate before any strategy is sent.
- 03Slippage-vs-benchmark tracked per strategy and cohort.
Human authority
An accountable reviewer commits the decision or action.
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