Ten years ago, she felt that she had hit a glass ceiling as an assistant trader on the commodities desk at the Mitsubishi Corporation.

Upon his father's death in 1797, he went to sea to support the family as assistant trader on the Eliza, then as chief mate of the Ulysses.

Mr. Dougherty, 25, is an assistant trader at Sherwood Securities in Jersey City.

He quickly moved up to assistant trader, then started trading natural gas derivatives in 1996.

Mercer now works in the Jersey City office of Charles Schwab as an assistant trader, the only woman on a 10-person "team."

Then he joined Cantor Fitzgerald, where he started as an assistant trader.

The complaint also describes white assistant traders as having enjoyed benefits that Mr. Laurent did not while he was an assistant trader.

Giustra took a securities course and began his career in the investment industry in 1978 with Merrill Lynch as an assistant trader and then a stockbroker.

The bride is an assistant trader in the municipal bond department at Wertheim & Company in New York.

After college, he began his career at Enron as an oil analyst but was soon promoted to assistant trader.