Advanced Trading Course

The London Academy of Trading (LAT) is an award-winning, dual-accredited provider of financial trading education and was the first academy in the UK to offer accredited and regulated qualifications in trading. We pride ourselves on providing practical and vocational training courses, developed to help individuals to invest or trade in financial markets, or for those looking to enhance their employment opportunities within financial markets. 

We help our learners apply their knowledge in a real-world, real-time environment, understanding the fundamental and practical aspects of trading. Since our creation in 2010, we have focused on four specific pillars of knowledge to help students improve their skills and understanding: fundamental analysis, technical analysis, trading psychology and risk management.

About the Course:

If you are keen to understand the factors which cause shifts and fluctuations in global financial markets, you’re in the right place! Take the opportunity to increase the strength of your CV and gain new skills and knowledge with LAT – an accredited institution that’s been sharing trading knowledge for over 10 years via its recognised courses. 

The Advanced Trading Course is the academy’s pre-eminent programme and you don’t need any prior knowledge to sign up for it, although some awareness will be useful. The programme starts with an introduction to the financial markets and an overview of the essentials of trading before exploring macroeconomic events and how they impact global markets. 

You’ll learn how to build a strong, profitable trading strategy with an in-depth insight into technical analysis tools. You’ll also explore trading psychology and risk management to understand how human emotions can influence financial decisions. 

Whether you’re looking to trade commodities, stock indices, individual equities, forex or something else - LAT lets you decide and offers insights into all the different assets and how they’re associated to ensure you have the necessary skills for trading. Upon completion, you'll receive a Level 5 Diploma in Applied Financial Trading. 

Begin Your Journey Today and Become an Expert in Trading in 12 Weeks. 

Choose whether to study online, on campus, or via a blended combination of the two. We offer a range of flexible study options to allow you to study around your commitments. During the course you will have access to real time trading platforms and LAT mentors are available 10 hours a day for 1-2-1 trading guidance.

Flexible Study Options:

With students in mind we offer flexibility with all of our courses. We have developed our delivery methods to enable continued interaction for all students, to enable you to extract the maximum benefit from whichever course you choose. 

• Choose to study online, on campus or via a blended combination

• You can pause and restart your course at any time. 

• We offer the option to pay for your course in instalments with 0% interest. 

• You can upgrade from one course to another by just paying the difference in course fees, not the whole fees for both courses

Our Expert Tutors:

The LAT faculty is comprised of experienced traders and analysts from major financial institutions including HSBC, Bank of America and Bloomberg. Our team of tutors and trade mentors are available 10 hours a day to provide 1-2-1 help and guidance on any aspect of our courses. We also host three webinars every day in which the experts analyse the markets, answer questions and stimulate discussions to enhance the learning process.

Where to start?

• Understanding of the FX market
  • Currency comparisons
• Fundamental, Political and Macroeconomic Analysis
  • How and why this affects the markets
  • Checking daily macro news

Building a Trading Strategy

• Fundamental or Technical approach?
• Identifying a trade from conception to execution
  • Timeframe analysis
• Risk management and lot sizing

Analysing Price Action

• Identifying major market levels – support, resistance, trends and channels
  • Strength of major market levels
  • Potential market moves when approaching these levels
• Setting price targets and stop losses
  • Are our price targets realistic?
  • Reasons for stop levels – ensuring trades have enough time to develop

Analytical Tools

• Using Japanese candlestick analysis to identify shifts in sentiment
• Identifying price patterns and using them to identify possible market levels
• Introduction to Moving Averages and MACD
  • Identify underlying trends
  • Generating trading signals
• Bollinger Bands
• Volume and On-Balance Volume analysis
• Oscillators and Momentum Indicators
  • Construction and interpretation of RSI and stochastics

Understanding your emotions

• Trading psychology - understanding our natural human biases
• Managing emotions when holding winning or losing positions

Trading Strategy Development

• Structured S-T-E-M approach
  • Straddle trade
  • Pivot point trading
  • Holy Grail trade

A completed and signed application form
A copy of your passport / proof of ID / Birth Certificate