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Course overview
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If you’re looking to invest in the stock market for the longer term, this course will help you develop your understanding of equity markets & long-term equity investing. Today’s volatile markets present excellent opportunities for investors, and LAT can set you up with the necessary skills to excel in this environment.
Our specialist tutors will introduce you to the techniques of valuing stocks and will examine how you can profit from equity markets by identifying the factors which drive share prices.
Through a series of interactive online sessions over the course of two weeks, we’ll help you to improve your equity investing approach and equip you with the ability to make more informed investment decisions.
What you'll learn
- Appreciate the objectives and benefits of longer-term investing
- Understand different methods for valuing companies
- Assess how macroeconomics can inform the stock selection
- Examine the investment process employed by professional fund managers
- Review the concepts behind factor investing
- Analyse accounting frauds and ways to avoid them
- Study behavioural biases that investors exhibit
- Learn investment lessons from previous market crises
- Appraise sell-side analysts’ views on stocks
- Research numerous individual share opportunities
Recognition
Study method
- Online
- Blended
- In-class
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Duration study load
- 2 Weeks
Entry requirements
Entry requirements for all LAT programmes:
- 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
- Proof of English language proficiency IELTS 5.5 or equivalents
- Candidates who studied for 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
Flexible study options
With students in mind, we offer flexibility with all of our courses. We have developed our online delivery methods to enable continued interaction for all students, to enable you to extract the maximum benefit from whichever course you choose.
- Study online through a series of live interactive online sessions
- 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
Subjects
- P/E ratio and Earnings per Share
- Enterprise value
- EBITDA
- Price to Book value
- Return on Equity
- Return on Capital Employed
- Dividend Yield
- Discounted cash flow models
- Macro forecasts
- Drivers of growth
- Market cycles, fiscal and monetary policy
- Impact on equity valuations
- Long-term themes
- Attributes of fund managers
- Investment methodology
- Best/worst trades
- Portfolio themes
- Trade ideas
- Manager selection
- Factors driving share price movements
- Sector Analysis
- Style
- Dividends
- Regulation
- Accounting scandals
- Red Flags
- Balance sheet and P&L manipulation
- Uncertainty
- Investment biases
- Behavioural biases
- Investing for the long-term
- Attitude to risk and capacity for loss
- Covid-19 market and sector reaction
- Winners and Losers
- Previous crises
- Fund manager positioning
- Lessons learnt
- AIM stocks
- Sell-side analyst insights
- Share price movements
- Case studies
About London Academy of Trading
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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, 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.
