TRADING & FINANCIAL MARKET ANALYSIS 2015 A FIVE DAY EVENING PROGRAMME WITH AMPLIFY TRADING
A TRADING EXPERIENCE AT THE HEART OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL MARKETS Placed at the forefront of current financial market volatility, London based trading firm Amplify Trading delivers an invaluable opportunity for new traders to develop a wellrespected practical skill-set in today s financial industry and an in-depth understanding of today s financial markets. Building on fifteen years of trading experience Amplify Trading has developed an industry leading training operation adjacent to its trading arm. The quality of Amplify s training is validated by the fact that we are now integral to the graduate training programmes at leading investment banks such as HSBC, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan where Amplify is brought in to help prepare their new employees for roles within capital markets. Amplify Trading has worked hard to build a reputation of excellence and professionalism within the industry, and we continuously strive to exceed the expectations of all our clients. We would like to invite new traders to our part time evening programme which takes place on our trading floor over five days from 18:00 21:00. This short course is designed to make institutional trading accessible to new traders who have commitments during the day but still want to gain an insight into trading at an institutional level with Amplify Trading. Each session will begin with key theory sessions delivered by our head of trading, which traders will then apply onto live market prices as we trade into the US session market close at 21:00. Piers Curran, Head of Trading, monitoring Amplify traders positions
INTENSIVE TRAINING AND STRUCTURED OBJECTIVES As you progress through five days of intensive training you will meet the following objectives in order to develop a insight into trading within financial markets at an institutional level. Develop a fundamental understanding in order to trade across international financial markets in response to breaking financial news and analysis Use on-line material provided to help prepare for intensive evening programme Understand the main driving factors behind equity, commodity, currency and fixed income valuations Gain first-hand experience in the importance of behavioural finance and trading psychology within an environment of uncertainty and risk Learn to understand and analyse financial markets by applying technical analysis techniques across asset classes Apply mentoring support and advice from experienced traders at Amplify as they continuously monitor your performance and progression See how in reality standard economic theory may not apply within an expected timeframe and the resulting challenge to risk management practices Create a base of experience and knowledge on which to build continued improvement on completion of the programme Amplify will work with all trainees to help the prepare for the intensive week on the trading floor. Trainees will be able to continue to use software and systems provided by Amplify Trading after the training week to continue to apply lessons learned and develop their trading performance. LOCATION All traders on the one week evening programme will be invited onto their own desk on the trading floor for the duration of the programme. Candidates can continue to develop their trading practices after the short course through our state-of-the art virtual platform with a live link to our trading floor content and discussions. 3
SYSTEMS, RISK MANAGEMENT AND SUPPORT Above left, institutional trading platform. Above right, Amplify Trading s news service and virtual trading room TRADING PLATFORM All our traders are set up with the institutional trading software that is used throughout all top level trading floors around the globe. Traders view in real time the assets in their trading portfolio, with prices, orders and fills being updated by the microsecond. The direct market access trading platform (above) with level two visibility allows over 150 technical analysis functions to be applied. Traders will be introduced to quantitative trading methods to back-test their strategies and will be shown how to incorporate our series of proprietary trading algorithms and analysis software to better assess price opportunity. NEWS AND ANALYSIS When training with Amplify, you learn how to assess and understand the changing fundamental news flow. In order to take full advantage of that knowledge it is important to get that news fast. All our traders receive access to live, up to the second market news and analysis, as soon as it breaks. Each day you will receive our strategy reports from our team of analysts to help provide further insight into the products you trade. MARKET BRIEFINGS AND DATA REVIEWS At the start of the EU and US trading sessions you will be invited by our Head of Trading, Piers Curran, to join a market briefing discussion to prepare for economic announcements throughout the day. You will be immersed in continuous market debate with our experienced traders assessing economic data as it gets released, providing an invaluable practical market experience. Copyright 2014 Amplify Trading Ltd
TESTIMONIALS OF WORK Institutional Feedback Truly a highlight of training. The facilitators were incredibly prepared and the interface advanced. This was simply the best and most important part of training. Kellie Burke, Bank of America Merrill Lynch VP, Global Markets Learning Individual professional feedback Jonathan Rawicz CFA Associate Director at Quilter My thoughts on the course are as follows: I felt that both the time and the money was well spent on the course. The skills I acquired will allow me to improve my investment decisions, by complementing my existing fundamental analysis skills with technical analysis skills. In particular, I really valued the fact that the course was given by actual market practitioners in a live market environment. This allowed for a strong practical as well as theoretical focus, which allowed me to get not only an understanding of technical analysis and trading, but a real feel for what is involved in using it in practice. I also really appreciated the fact that the lectures were interspersed with actual trading sessions, which effectively broke up the material into bit size digestible chunks, as well as al-lowed me to keep my attention levels high. In addition, the opportunity to sit amongst the traders on the floor rather than just in a class-room, it gave me a much better understanding of what a trading floor is actually like and what trading day in day out is really all about. Copyright 2014 Amplify Trading Ltd
STRUCTURED PRACTICAL TRAINING IN FINANCIAL MARKETS Each session starts with key theory which candidates then apply in live market prices. Every trading decision is monitored and reviewed in order to provide feedback on progression to help the candidate best developed their understanding of financial markets. MONDAY: EQUITIES OBJECTIVE: To understand what factors drive today s financial markets and to become familiar with the trading platform. Implement risk limits and basic technical analysis in US equity indices. 18:00-19:00 Introduction to financial markets 19:00-19:45 Tech analysis - support/resistance/trends, candlestick analysis; Trading economic data 19:45-21:00 Introduction to the functionality of the trading systems Candidates trade equity indices including the S&P 500, Nasdaq TUESDAY: FOREIGN EXCHANGE OBJECTIVE: To understand currency market valuations based on national economic variations including sovereign ratings, trade balances, economic growth and monetary policy. Trade major currency pairs as well as non USD currency crosses. 18:00-19:00 Exchange rates and international macroeconomics 19:00-19:45 Tech analysis: Charting techniques; Trailing stops and OCO s 19:45-21:00 Candidates trade major FX currency pairs and non USD currency crosses WEDNESDAY: COMMODITIES OBJECTIVE: To apply a practical understanding of price discovery in energy markets. To understand the basics behind price drivers including geopolitics, weather patterns and changing supply fundamentals such as US shale gas production. 18:00-19:00 Commodity focus hard and soft 19:00-19:45 Contemporary global commodity drivers; commodity prices and the impact on correlated assets; Technical Analysis : Fibonacci retracement, MACD and Pivot Points 19:45-21:00 Trading Crude oil futures into the session close. THURSDAY: FIXED INCOME OBJECTIVE: To learn about bond markets and their importance for the global financial system. To trade US government Treasury bonds and to apply more advanced technical analysis tools. 18:00-19:00 Fixed Income products and markets; The primary Vs secondary market; 19:00-19:45 Arbitrage and the changing correlation between financial assets; 19:45-21:00 Trading US Treasuries into the session close FRIDAY: MULIT-ASSET TRADING OBJECTIVE: To trade all assets simultaneously keeping to all risk management protocols set. To gain an insight to the behavioural pressures on trading decisions. 18:00-19:00 Behavioural finance and risk management 19:00-19:45 Trading Psychology ; Prospect theory, herd mentality, investor bias 19:45-21:00 Trading all assets into session close Copyright 2014 Amplify Trading Ltd
A FIVE DAY INTESNIVE PROGRAMME WITH AMPLIFY TRADING This one week programme incorporates the main themes delivered in our longer programmes at a more accessible level on a part time basis. The training fees for the programme for 2015 are 750.00 for the full week including all VAT and system costs. Throughout the year of 2015 we plan to have one start date a month for the five day programme and please bear in mind space will be limited to thirteen candidates for each intake. Please contact us to reserve a place, alternatively please use this registration link. Yours sincerely, William de Lucy Managing Director See what others say about us on Spend each evening on our trading floor as you go through the one week programme