Program Duration
Duration 3 months
Training & Practice hours 75+
Program Pedagogy
Version 1 – Online, Self-paced
Version 2 – Online, Live training
Batch Start
Version 1 – Self-paced
Version 2 – Batch starts Jan 15, 2022
Program Highlights
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Industry-oriented curriculum
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Industry recognized Certifications
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Technical Analysis(prepares for CMT Level 1 & 2)
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Trade Futures, Options, Equity, FX, Commodities
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Learn Charting platforms including Bloomberg
Program Variants
VERSION 1
SELF-PACED ONLINE
When can you take
Take anytime, Self-paced
Certification included
Professional Trading & Technical Analysis by CMT Association & EduEdge Pro
apply nowVERSION 2
LIVE TRAINING ONLINE
When can you take
Batch starts Jan 15, 2022
Certification included
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Professional Trading & Technical Analysis by CMT Association & EduEdge Pro
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Certificate from Christ University
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CMT Level 1, CMT Association
About Our Program
What will you learn
This course would provide an understanding of how markets function, understand how to trade markets, learn which Trading strategies do well in markets, understand Technical Analysis and how to conceptualize trading strategies, learn the trader plan and implement strategies in live markets, and understand how to apply Technical Analysis to Derivatives such as Futures and Options and also understand how to trade volatility in the markets and many more.
Learn Technical Analysis and beyond
The Program would develop your understanding of important market trends, market regimes, market conventions & build your ability to conceptualize trading strategies spanning multiple asset classes. The participant would learn key trading strategies, trend identification, robust risk management techniques & effective position management that would help the participant time the markets effectively.
Hands-on Pedagogy with Live & Simulated Trading sessions
The delivery methodology involves powerful, detailed & interactive lectures combined with live/simulated trading sessions focusing on market analysis & trade execution.
Learn to trade multiple asset classes and their Derivatives
The Certified professional trader programme is the flagship program designed to create a strong pool of professional traders in the global markets across multiple asset classes such as Equities, Forex, Commodities and their Derivatives
Professional Certification by CMT Association & CMT Level 1 included
On successful completion of the program, you would be awarded the professional certification in ?PROFESSIONAL TRADING PROGRAM USING TECHNICAL ANALYSIS? by CMT Association, a US Charter body and the global benchmark in Technical Analysis. In the online live training version of the program, you may avail of the CMT Level 1 certificate if you are a full-time student
Delivered and mentored by Hedge Fund professionals
Prof Harjeet Singh would be primary mentor on the Program. He is a Stanford University alumnus, expert in Algorithmic Trading and runs his own Hedge funds across the world
Interview Preparation content
You will receive Specialized packs created to prepare you for Trading, Financial Markets and Technical Analyst roles
Affiliated Industry recognized certifications
You will additionally earn certifications from Christ University and CMT Association for your appropriately chosen track
Broad Coverage
SKILLS YOU WILL LEARN
Investment Banking, Global Markets, Treasury, Equity Research, Trading and Risk
Learn practical concepts and industry applications across above domains
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Asset Classes and Business Cycles
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Proprietary Trading
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Technical Analysis
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Trading Equities, FX & Commodities
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Trading Derivatives
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Inter-market Analysis for Sales & Trading roles
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Introduction to Algorithmic Trading
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
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75+
TEACHING & PRACTICE HOURS
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100+
TRADING MODELS USED IN TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
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10+
APPLIED EXAMPLES OF PROFESSIONAL TRADING FRAMEWORKS
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7+
LEARN FROM INDUSTRY LEADERS, DOMAIN PROFESSIONALS & ACADEMIC EXPERTS
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150+
INTERVIEW QUESTIONS ASKED FOR TRADING ROLES
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24x7
ACCESS TO LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH FULLY RECORDED VIDEOS
YOU WILL LEARN 5+ PLATFORMS AND TOOLS USED IN INVESTMENT BANKING
Practical applied training in platforms commonly used for professional Trading
Learn practical concepts and frameworks and apply your knowledge for experiential learning
FINANCIAL ANALYSIS & MODELLING PLATFORMS/TOOLS YOU WILL LEARN
Our Alumni at Work
WHAT JOB ROLES WILL I BE PREPARED FOR
- Trading Analyst
- Trader
- Technical Analyst
- Financial Analyst
- Proprietary Trader
- Global Markets Analyst
- Fund Analyst
- Fund Manager
SOME OF THE TOP COMPANIES GLOBALLY THAT RECRUIT FOR TRADING ROLES
CAREER TRAJECTORY FOR A TRADER
TRADING ANALYST/ SENIOR ANALYST
Avg Salary
5-20 LPA
Work Experience
0-4 years
Skills
Technical Analysis Multi-asset class Charting softwares Trading styles Track markets Derivatives knowledge Portfolio Hedging Option Trading strategies
TRADING ASSOCIATE / SENIOR ASSOCIATE
Avg Salary
20- 50 LPA
Work Experience
4-10 years
Skills
Technical Analysis Multi-asset class Charting softwares Trading styles Track markets Derivatives knowledge Portfolio Hedging Option Trading strategies
DESK HEAD VICE PRESIDENT/ SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT
Avg Salary
50- 50 LPA
Work Experience
10-20 years
Skills
Technical Analysis Multi-asset expertise Trading styles Global markets knowledge Derivatives knowledge Portfolio Hedging
HEAD GLOBAL MARKETS MANAGING DIRECTOR
Avg Salary
50 LPA- 1 Crore PA+
Work Experience
15+ years
Skills
Technical Analysis Multi-asset expertise Trading styles Global markets knowledge Derivatives knowledge Portfolio Hedging
Program Pathway & outline
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ESSENTIALS OF TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Learn the classical building blocks of Technical Analysis and Inter-market analysis across asset classes
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PROFESSIONAL TRADING STRATEGIES
Learn advanced Technical Analysis Strategies and apply them to different market regimes and across different asset classes
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TECHNICAL ANALYSIS FOR DERIVATIVES
Learn how to apply Technical Analysis trading strategies and styles to Futures and Options. Also, learn how to hedge using Technical Analysis
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INTEGRATED TRADING PLAN
Integrate all the elements of Position Sizing, Risk Management, Market Regime study to implement different robust Trading plans depending on your risk appetite
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INTERVIEW PREPARATION PACK
Specialized packs created to prepare you for Trading roles
Overview
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Duration
15+ Teaching & Practice Hours 50+ Learn strategies relevant for Professional Trading
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Includes
Comprehensive notes Practical examples Trading strategies and frameworks Bloomberg templates Implementation on Trading platforms
Platform you will learn
Basics of Technical Analysis
- Dow Theory
- Basics of Trend Analysis
- Support & Resistance levels
- Trends
- Moving Average
- Gaps
- Volume & OI interpretation
Trend analysis
- Trends
- Direction
- Duration
- Trend lines
- Channel lines
- Breakout trend lines: rules of confirmation
Moving averages
- Definition
- Benefits
- Types
- Number of moving averages
- Duration
- Double crossover
- Japanese crosses
- Triple crossovers
- Envelope model
- Bollinger Bands
Chart formations -Trend reversal formations
- Head and Shoulders
- Double Tops and Double Bottoms
- Triple Tops and Triple Bottoms
- V-tops (spikes)
- Rounded Tops and Rounded Bottoms (saucers)
Trend continuation formation
- Flags
- Pennant
- Triangles
- Wedges
Oscillators
- Definition
- Role
- Relationship with Underlying Instrument
- In-gear
- Bullish divergence
- Bearish divergence
- Types
- Momentum
- Rate of Change
- Relative Strength Index
- Stochastic
- Larry Williams %R
- MACD
- Moving Average Oscillator
Specialty indicators
- Directional Movement Index
- On-balance Volume
- Parabolic (SAR)
- Intraday momentum indicator
Technical theories
- Dow Theory Theories
- Elliott Wave Principles
- Fibonacci Sequence
- Gann Analysis
- Cycle Analysis
Sentimental Indicators
- Put/Call ratio
- Bull/bear Indicators
- Insider activity
- CBOE Volatility index
- VIX
Overview
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Duration
20+ Teaching & Practice Hours 25+ Learn professional trading strategies to trade Futures and Options
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Includes
Comprehensive notes Practical examples Trading strategies and frameworks Bloomberg templates Implementation on Trading platforms
Platform you will learn
Trading Strategies on Technical Analysis
- Trading strategies on Dow Theory
- Trading strategies on Elliot Wave Analysis
- Fibonacci Ratios and implications for trading
- Trading strategies on moving averages
- Bollinger Banks and trading strategies
- MACD, RSI indicator, Stochastics, Rate of Change (ROC) and trading strategies
Price Action Strategies
- Understanding Demand and Supply Zones
- Identifying and Applying zones
- How to calculate reward to risk ratio on a trade
- Entry and Exit using Price Action strategies
- Understanding highly successful trade setups
- Momentum Breakout and strategies
- Momentum Breakdown and strategies
- Zonal Retracement setups and strategies
- Applying to different asset classes
Overview of Professional Trading strategies used by institutions
- Quantitative Trading strategies
- Price Action strategies
- Statistical Arbitrage strategies
- ndex Replication strategies
- Options Trading strategies
- Volatility Trading strategies
Overview
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Duration
10+ Teaching & Practice Hours 10+ Learn Integrated Trading Plan
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Includes
Comprehensive notes Practical examplesIntegrated Trading plan and frameworks Algorithmic Trading framework Bloomberg templates Implementation on Trading platforms
Platform you will learn
Trading Futures professionally
- Positional Trading using Futures
- Market Analysis and Inter-Market Relationships
- Trading Futures using Technical Analysis
- Trading Futures using Price Action strategies
- Swing Trading on Futures
- Intraday and Scalping through Futures
- How to Funds Trade Futures
Options Trading overview
- Options Markets and Conventions
- Framework for Option Payoff Calculation
- Option Trading Strategies ? Basic
- Option Trading Strategies ? Advanced
- Option Arbitrage Strategies
- Option Scalping Strategies
- Option Greek profiles and PL Analysis
- Dynamic Hedging in Option Trading
- Applying Demand and Supply Framework on Option Strategies
Options Trading Strategies
- Trading Vertical Spreads
- Trading Volatility spikes with Spreads
- Trading Calender Spreads
- Straddle and Strangle setup
- Trading Ratio Spreads and Backspreads for breakouts or breakdowns
- Leg Management and Timing Legs
Trading Volatiltity
- Volatility Types
- Volatility Forecasting
- Trading Implied Volatility and spikes
- Implied vs Historical Volatility
- Trading the Volatility Skew and Surface
- Trading VIX through VIX Futures
Advanced Options Strategies
- Gamma Scalping
- Hedging Option Greeks
- Delta-Gamma-Vega Hedging
- Dynamic Hedging
- Legging, Ratioing and Market timing
- Choosing between Options Strategies
- Reading Open Interest and refining Options Strategies
Overview
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Duration
30+ Teaching & Practice Hours 25+ Risk Models & Templates In Excel
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Includes
Comprehensive notes Practical examples Risk models Excel templates Bloomberg templates
Platform you will learn
Trade Management and Frameworks
- Understanding Trading styles
- Position Sizing
- Order Management
- Multiple Time Frame Analysis
- Multiple and Inter Market Analysis
- Relative Strength Analysis
- Risk Management
- Building a Systematic Trading Plan
- Applying to different asset classes
Next Steps ? Algorithmic Trading
- Concept of Algorithmic Trading
- Types of Algorithmic Trading Strategies
- Lifecycle of Algorithmic Trading
- Algorithmic Trading Architecture
- Conceptualization of Trading Strategy
- Pseudo-code Development
- Development of Strategy module
- Order Management module
- Risk Management module
- Position Sizing module
- Take-Profit and Stop-Loss Targeting
- Back-Testing and Optimization of Trading strategy
- Portfolio Back-Testing
Overview
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Duration
30+ Teaching & Practice Hours 25+ Market Risk Models & Templates In Excel 10+ Bloomberg Templates
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Includes
Comprehensive notesPractical examples Risk models Excel templates Bloomberg templates
Platform you will learn
Investment for the Program
VERSION 1 SELF-PACED ONLINE
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Financing Options
Professional Trading & Technical Analysis by CMT Association & EduEdge Pro
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When can you take
Take anytime, Self-paced
VERSION 2 LIVE TRAINING ONLINE
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Financing Options
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Professional Trading & Technical Analysis by CMT Association & EduEdge Pro
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Certificate from Christ University
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CMT Level 1, CMT Association
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When can you take
Batch starts Jan 15, 2022
Frequently asked question's about the course
In fact, some of our sessions would be conducted in live market hours, to give you a first-hand experience of learning how to read markets, conceptualize trading strategies and develop them eventually into algorithms.
Learn to trade multiple asset classes and increase your horizon of trading opportunities
Through this program, you will learn to trade multiple asset classes and build algorithms suitable to respective market regimes and market structures
This program would also help you learn how to trade derivatives such as Futures and Options, and further increase your return-risk profile.
There are no pre-requisite qualifications for the course. We will be sharing pre-program content and videos that you can go through to help you better prepare for the program.
Participants from varied backgrounds such as Commerce, Management, Statistics, Finance, Financial Markets and other related fields will do well in the program. We require our participants to have a Graduate degree with minimum 50% pass percentage.
Technical Analysis requires a decent background of Statistics. We will teach you all the basics you need to know before and during the program. We cover the major statistical concepts, empirical distributions, stylized facts and Statistics for Technical Analysis in our Program, all at a level appropriate for someone with no/little statistics experience.
A. Self Trader
Become self-employed and trade markets full-time through your own trading strategies using Technical Analysis
B. Start Your Own Proprietary Trading Desk
Hire a small team and start your own Proprietary Trading desk
C. Start Own Fund
Build sophisticated and successful Technical Analysis driven strategies, prepare business plan, raise seed funding and start your own fund
D. Join Propreitary Trading Desk Of Bank/Broker
Join a Proprietary Trading desk with a Brokerage firm, Investment Bank or Treasury
This program is extremely useful for participants who want to build careers in
Different firms/banks/institutions/funds who have Trading desks could potentially look at you. Some of these belong to the following, not restricting to:
VERSION 1 SELF-PACED ONLINE
Certification included
Professional Trading & Technical Analysis by CMT Association & EduEdge Pro
VERSION 2 LIVE TRAINING ONLINE
Certification included
A Professional Trading & Technical Analysis by CMT Association & EduEdge Pro
B Certificate from Christ University
C CMT Level 1, CMT Association
Peer networking
In addition to the training program, you will have ample opportunity to network with the peers in your cohort. Prior to coming to the program, you will have access to your cohort where you can meet and engage with your peers before, during, and after the program.
Industry networking
Throughout the program, you will be taught and mentored by Industry experts, Technical Analysis professionals, Technical Strategists and Fund Managers working/having worked with leading Investment banks, Brokerage firms and Fund houses.
Alumni networking
Besides, after the program, you will be invited to join the Technical Analysis Trading Alumni group.
Entrepreneurship
If you make choices to become a Self Trader, Start Your Own Proprietary Trading Desk or Start Own Hedge Fund, this program provides you the perfect platform to learn, understand how the business runs, how to make money in the markets and express yourself in the markets.
Hence, you can become self-employed and trade markets full-time through your own strategies using Technical Analysis. Or hire a small team and start your own Proprietary Trading desk. Or build sophisticated Technical Analysis based strategies, prepare business plan, raise seed funding and start your own fund. We will hand-hold you and help you in your journey of setting up your business.
Trading Plan
Please check next question.
Placement Leads
We have networks with leading industry participants such as brokerage firms, banks and funds; and you can leverage that network for connecting with the industry and finding suitable opportunities in Algorithmic Trading. Once you are trained and ready, we will help you with placement leads that can help you land your dream role in Trading.
Having said that, its entirely your performance and skill-sets that will define your journey in landing your dream job. We cannot guarantee that you will get a job after completing the program. Obtaining a job is strictly based off one s own skill sets. However, we are confident that as long as you stay engaged during the program, you will be able to test those skills and apply it to the markets. Upon completion of the program, we will provide you with a certificate that you can print and/or add to your LinkedIn profile.
Networking opportunities
You will have great networking opportunities at the program. Our industry faculty work in the industry in leading positions and that will provide a great opportunity for you to network. Our Program Chair, Mr. Harjeet Singh, runs hedge funds across the world and he will bring his industry connects to help you network and learn more about the hedge fund industry and algorithmic trading domain.
We encourage our participants in their journey in Technical Analysis. We can provide Risk Capital to our participants who showcase promise and build successful algorithms and get your started in your journey in Technical Analysis.
Thus, to support you in your journey, as part of the Trading Plan, we can provide:
We will hand-hold in this process to help get started in your journey of Trading using Technical Analysis in Equity, Commodity, Forex or other markets.