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Trading Psychology

Study Method Online
Provider London Academy of Trading
Recognition CPD
Start Date Enrol anytime
London Academy of Trading

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Course overview

Trading psychology is a key factor in successful trading, which is why we have developed this five-week course to help you develop your techniques in careful decision-making to improve your trading performance.

Gain valuable lessons on how to leave bias and emotion at the door to give you the best chances at yielding a profit and minimising losses in the markets.

Through a combination of live interactive online sessions, one of our expert tutors with decades of experience will assess your trader personality and give you the opportunity to get ahead of the game by irradicating common trading mistakes.

Job outcomes

  • Finance Roles

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What you'll learn

  • Improve trading skills, through greater self-awareness & discipline
  • Enhance performance, using behavioural risk management & scenario planning
  • Build stronger resilience & Stress Response Management (SRM)
  • Learn key mental strategies, mindfulness techniques & coherence training
  • Develop a successful trader & wealth management mindset
  • Establish goal-setting performance measures

Recognitions

CPD

Accredited/ Certified by CPD

Study method

  • Online Online info icon
    Online delivery - online course content with the exception of assessments and work placement
  • Blended Blended info icon
    Blended delivery - both online course content and partial face to face requirements
  • In-class In-class info icon
    In class delivery - predominately face to face course content conducted at a specific location
  • Virtual Virtual info icon
    Virtual Delivery - Live and interactive classroom-style learning conducted completely online
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Duration study load

  • 5 weeks

Delivery

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.

Entry requirements

General requirements

  • A completed and signed application form
  • A copy of your passport/proof of ID / Birth Certificate
  • Entry requirements for all LAT programmes of two weeks or more:
  • A scanned copy of a recent passport-sized colour photograph
  • Proof of education qualifications
  • Proof of English proficiency, if required

Note: All documents are to be provided in English. Where documents are not in English, you will also need to provide a certified translation of any such documents.

International students

  • Scanned copies of your diplomas and certified translation
  • Scanned copies of your certified transcripts
  • Candidates who studied an undergraduate degree in the medium of English in a majority English–speaking country can provide a letter from their university confirming this as evidence of their English proficiency.

All other students:

  • A minimum level 3 qualification or an interview with our Academic Dean, Paddy Osborn
  • Fully completed LAT application form.

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Course features

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.

Subjects

Sessions
Session 1: Nature or Nurture? Are Successful Traders “born” or can they be trained?
  • Learn about top attributes of successful traders & leveraging your nature-nurture signature
  • Become aware of our survival state reactions and how your biology is not your destiny
  • How the environmental influence of life influences perceptions of trading, risk & money?
  • Introduction: 3 step peak performance roadmap of awareness, change & transformation
Session 2: How Trading Psychology Awareness can Improve your Performance?
  • 80/20 rule of strategy and psychology
  • Why it is important to access your supercomputer mind?
  • Trader Personality and Risk Assessment Development
  • The power of brain change, neuroplasticity and how we can train our muscle memory
Session 3: Mistake culture, and why rising market volatility will pressure our mindset?
  • The power of now. Learn how to fail forward by learning from past mistakes
  • Review common mistakes in our Psychology, Strategy & Risk/Money Management
  • 3 Key Steps to Overcoming your Trading Mistakes
Session 4: Strategy and trade assessment
  • Interactive review your top strategies or trade-related questions
  • Mistake Analysis Assessment
  • Behavioural Portfolio Analysis & Scenario Planning
  • Applied market trading setups, using the lessons experienced on Day 1
  • Market & Life Wizards: Key lessons from the world’s top professionals
  • What is your trading edge?
Session 5: Resilience & Stress Response Management (SRM)
  • Performance Lifestyle Assessment
  • Mental Strategies
  • Mindfulness techniques for optimising your decision making, clarity & SRM
  • Coherence Training, including biofeedback
  • Goal-mapping, based on a unique neuro-association technique, to achieving your targets
  • 10-day challenge, an opportunity to decide, commit and transform to the next level
Unique 1-2-1 coaching support (add-on), 3-6 months
  • Ongoing & personalized coaching support from Ron William, using the latest training techniques
  • Progress updates, based on trading psychology patterns, coherence measures & peak performance
  • Review of live market setups, challenges & solutions

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Payment options

Course fees – £699

  • No government funding available for this course

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About London Academy of Trading

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 trading 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 theoretical and practical applications of trading to help you succeed in this exciting environment.

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