Trading Skills 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 have an active interest in trading then discover how you get started and learn the fundamentals in just four weeks. With the option to study online, on campus or via a blended combination, our full range of flexible study options will help you learn to trade around your commitments. 

This course can be taken by recent graduates and mature students as well as those who want to trade their own funds to earn an additional income. You’ll learn under the watchful eyes of our professional mentors, with extensive academic sessions introducing the techniques for trading real-time financial markets. You will get a practical introduction to the financial markets including the major players, what they get up to, and what makes financial markets move. 

Whether you wish to trade commodities, stock indices, individual equities, forex or other trade assets, it’s up to you. LAT will teach you about all the different assets and give you the skills you need to trade successfully. You will have access to a real time trading platform and LAT mentors will be 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. 

• Study online, on campus, or via a blended combination

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

• 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?

• Further understanding of the FX market
• Currency comparisons
• Fundamental and Economic Analysis
• How and why this affects the markets
• Checking daily macro news
• How to prepare your day as a trader

Building a Trading Strategy

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

Support and Resistance Analysis

• Identifying major market levels - support/resistance/trend channel
• Strength of major market levels
• Potential market moves when approaching these levels

Analytical Tools

• Using Japanese candlestick analysis to identify shifts in sentiment
• Identifying price patterns and using them to identify possible targets
• Introduction to Moving Averages 
  • Identify underlying trends
  • Generating trading signals

Setting Targets and Applying Stop Losses

• What are we trying to achieve from the markets?
• Are our price targets realistic?
• Reasons for stop levels – ensuring trades have time to develop

Understanding Your Emotions

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

Entry requirements for all LAT programmes:

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