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About Us

The London Academy of Trading is an award-winning, triple-accredited provider of financial trading education and the UK’s first academy to offer accredited qualifications in trading. Our practical and vocational training courses will allow you to step onto the trading floor with all the tools you need to make sound, data-driven decisions.
Since 2010, we have remained committed to our four pillars of knowledge: fundamental analysis, technical analysis, trading psychology and risk management. We are dedicated to guiding you through the theoretical and practical applications of trading to help you succeed in this exciting environment.

About the course

Are you interested in running your own SIPP and ISA’s? We will be looking at Global Macro and its effect on all asset classes. What is pertinent to medium/long-term investors now? How do we express these themes in a portfolio? We will be looking at individual shares, exchange-traded funds (ETF’s) and Investment Trusts.

A key aim is to understand the thought process of an investor and be able to apply it. Time will be spent showing where to source information to build up your financial knowledge. Please note that this is not a course about short-term trading, and we won’t be discussing cryptocurrencies.

Learning Outcomes

Students who complete this course will be able to:

• Understand and interpret the Global Macro picture
• Analyse the options open to private investors for long-term investing
• Build up their financial markets knowledge
• Improve their investment decision-making

Course Syllabus:

Four interactive 90-minute sessions

• Look at the present Global Macro picture – the major themes this year
• Discuss the outlook for equities, fixed income markets, FX and commodities
• Look at investing ideas/themes in the market today
• Discuss when to use ETFs
• Dig into the current window of opportunity in Investment Trust Wind-ups
• Investigate what to read and what webinars/podcasts can help build your financial knowledge
• Take a look at some live markets to explain discussion topics
• Consider individual client needs to determine topics to be discussed

Flexible Study Options

We’ve kept our programmes flexible and accessible with online deliveries to ensure your learning doesn’t get interrupted. This means you can extract maximum benefits from whichever course you choose. Pause and restart your course at any time, and if you fancy an upgrade, all you need to do is pay the difference in course fees.

Our Expert Tutors

Studying with LAT means you’ll be taught by experienced traders and analysts from major financial institutions, including HSBC, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse and Bloomberg. You’ll get 1:1 access to our team of trading mentors ten hours a day to develop robust trading strategies and have all your questions answered. We also host three daily webinars where our experts analyse the markets and host discussions to enhance your learning and understanding.