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Course overview
Make the most of the plethora of opportunities offered by stock markets by enrolling in our Equity Investing course. Develop your understanding of equity markets and long-term equity investing and gain the tools you need to take your skills to the next level.
Learn everything you need to know from our specialist tutor who will introduce you to the techniques of valuing stocks and how to profit from equity markets by identifying the factors which drive share prices.
By the end of this two-week online course, you will have improved your equity investing approach and be equipped 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
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.
Flexible study options
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.
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
- 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
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.
