About The Academy of Financial Training:
Offering portfolio-building services for budding traders and weathered stockholders, the Academy of Financial Trading was awarded Best Online Trading Educator 2012, 2013 and 2014 by the Global Banking and Finance Review. The company is made up of a team of professionals with trading industry experience and decent thinking caps, all of whom are ready to advise and tutor the next generation of money-making boffins.
Courses are independently accredited by an internationally recognized body for CPD purposes. This course is accredited by the CPD Certification Service, which is an independent body that ensures qualification are in line with professional standards.
Your four-week online financial foundation trading programme includes ten valuable lessons:
- Lesson 1: Why, What and Who
This lesson covers why to trade, what to trade and who else is trading. These three headings are invaluable to understand before moving forward.
- Lesson 2: Leverage, Margin and all the Jargon
What is leverage? What are the benefits and risks associated with it? All of the unnecessary jargon is also simplified.
- Lesson 3: Market Analysis
We explain what constitutes fundamental analysis and sources of information to help clients specialise in their favoured trading instruments.
- Lesson 4: Candlesticks - Shedding Light on Opportunities
Technical Analysis is all about seeing, accepting and trading. This is trading what is in front of you not what you or a pundit predicts.
- Lesson 5: Technical Charting 101
The previous lesson is expanded to develop technical channel and trend trading techniques highlighting breakouts, support and resistance, with counter retail strategic entry and exit techniques for each trade made.
- Lesson 6: Building Your Trading Toolkit
This session on counter-retail trading techniques that both avoid and exploit the mistakes that typical retail traders make.
- Lesson 7: Practice Trading In the Real World - Pros and Cons
How to get access and configure a free practice trading account. How to practically make basic trades, place orders, predefine stop losses & limits (take profit), modifying orders and much more.
- Lesson 8: Becoming A Counter Retail Trader
This session focuses on moving averages, cross-overs, simple, exponential and correct order MAs with a closing synopsis on counter-retail trading techniques that both avoid and exploit the mistakes that typical retail traders make.
- Lesson 9: Risk Management – Protecting Your Capital
Here we will introduce traders to the concepts of risk management so they can minimise their losing trades and maximise their winners in a premeditated format.
- Lesson 10: The Final Steps – Psychology, Journaling and Timing
There is no room for emotion or surprises in trading. Any trade entry or exit is pre-planned and logged in your trader`s journal.
