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Level 7 Diploma In Financial Trading
Unit 1 - Principles of Financial Trading
Introduction to our level 7 Diploma Course (2:10)
Breakdown of the course (4:30)
How to fill in your assessment portfolio (18:36)
Role of a Financial Trader
Introduction to Financial Markets
What is a Financial Market?
Investment Banks
Mutual Funds
Institutional Investors
Arbitrage
Market Makers
Introduction, Essay Overview and Timeline & Portfolio Start (62:38)
Unit 2 - Trading Financial Markets
Types of Financial Markets
The Origins of the Futures Market
The Futures Market
Types of futures trading
Types of Spreads
What are Shares?
Bond Futures
What is Forex? (1:40)
What are Indices? (8:47)
What are commodities?
Interest Rates
Options (4:57)
Trading Government Bonds
Types of Bonds by issuer
Trading exchanges
The Main Futures exchanges
Price and yield
Quiz
STIRS Futures (8:18)
Commodities Futures
FX Futures
Index Futures
Unit 3 - Trading Cryptocurrencies
What are Cryptocurrencies
Different Ways To Trade Crypto's
How to analyse the Crypto Market (84:39)
How to research and buy low value tokens (26:53)
Dangers of trading Cryptocurrencies
Unit 4 - What are Financial markets
Spread Betting and CFD trading
What is spread betting?
What are contract for difference (CFD's)
How CFDs differ from spread betting
MT4
Unit 5 - Executing orders and leverage
What is an order
Using stop losses
How are orders executed (1:27)
What is leverage (2:50)
Margin calls
How to manage your Risk (16:52)
Quiz
Unit 6 - Trading Financial Products and Fundamentals
What is Fundamental analysis
Why is it used
Fundamentals
Trade Examples
Implementing strategies on news (advanced)
Understanding how to Trade the Economic Calendar ( FOMC and NFP) (14:33)
Why are newsfeeds and twitter important?
Economics 1
Economics 2
Economics 3
Central Banks
Unit 7 - Technical analysis
What is Technical analysis
Candle Sticks
Support and Resistance (2:01)
Breakouts
How to trade support and resistance
Trends and Channels
Ascending and Descending Wedges
Head and Shoulders breakout strategy - Advanced (12:03)
Fibonacci Retracement
Harmonic Price Patterns
Market Profile (10:14)
Market Profile & Scalping (16:29)
Technical Analysis Weekly Webinars (1539:59)
Technical Analysis - Who uses it and why?
Quiz
Reversals
Chart pattern analysis: Continuation and Consolidation
Triangles, Double Bottom and Double Top
Point & Figure
Moving Averages, Bollinger Bands and RSI
Alternative Technical Analysis Strategies
Volatility Time Bands
Stochastic Steps
Peak Exit Indicators
Unit 8 - Trading psychology
Controlling emotions that hold you back
Controlling emotions that entice you to trade
Controlling emotions that cloud your judgement
Common trading mistakes
Quiz
Psychology
Market Psychology
Psychology 2: Behavioural Science
Psychology 3: Visualisation & Self Talk
Psychology of Optimism
Trade Execution
Risk & Money Management
Unit 9 - Financial Planning and Money Management
What is a Trading plan
How to make a trading plan
What is risk management
Ways to manage your risk
UBU154 – Global financial markets and operations
LO1 Understand the importance of global financial markets and the impact they have on a country’s economy
LO2 Understand the importance of financial and market data in formulating and delivering trading strategies
LO3 Understand external environmental factors affecting global financial markets
UBU155 – Financial derivatives – futures and options
LO1 Understand how to analyse and evaluate information implied by market option prices and volatilities
LO2 Understand how to formulate methodologies for the application of volatility analysis to option strategy and trading
LO3 Be able to formulate methodologies for trading strategies on identified individual asset class products
LO4 Be able to formulate methodologies for trading simple and complex trading combination strategies across multiple asset class products
UBU156 – Applied financial trading techniques
LO1 Understand the functionality and adoption of market matching algorithms to support trade execution
LO2 Understand financial market psychology and how cognitive biases and heuristics influence trading and investment behaviour
LO3 Be able to conceive and formulate strategic trading and investment strategies through complex technical analysis
LO4 Be able to use front end trading systems functionality for execution and risk mitigation of trade execution and investment strategy
Final Assessment Criteria
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LO1 Understand how to analyse and evaluate information implied by market option prices and volatilities
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