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These free online financial markets courses teach you about the market places where financial agents trade financial derivatives and securities like stocks, bonds, and precious metals. If you're interested in the operation of capitalist economies, and high-scale financial transactions like the trading of stocks and capital, you can find out more with these free online courses....…Read More
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Understanding the UK Financial Regulations
- Describe the UK market structure and functions and the r...
- Discuss the characteristics and risk profile of instrume...
- Outline the steps involved in risk management... Read More

Diploma in International Finance
- Discuss the economic factors that affect a nations’ econ...
- Describe the main components of an economy
- Explain the effects of growing public debt
- Define the concepts of ‘productivity’ and ‘in... Read More

How Value Investing Works
- Recognise the investing strategy of great investors Benj...
- Define and practice ‘value investing’
- Recognise the stock market's behaviour in the short and ...
- Define the stock's 'real value' Read More

Tokenomics Unleashed: Mastering ETFs and Blockchain Tokenisation
- Define the concepts of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and ...
- List the different types of exchange traded funds
- Outline the ETFs and tokenisation in terms of... Read More

Understanding Stock and Bond Investment
- Define investment and the various types of investment as...
- Explain asset allocation and its importance in building ...
- Outline the relationship between risk and ret... Read More

Technical Analysis: Stock Market Trends
- Explain stock market trends and influencing factors
- Define a stock market index
- Distinguish between bearish and bullish marke... Read More

Introduction to Corporate Finance
- Explain the role of ethics in finance
- Identify the criteria corporations use when making a fin...
- Distinguish the rights and obligations of com... Read More

Trendline Analysis for Stock Market Investing
- Recognize the right market trend in which to invest
- Identify the direction of security prices
- Discuss the strength of trendlines Read More

Introduction to the Trade Lifecycle
- Explain the key stages of the trade lifecycle from initi...
- Identify the roles and responsibilities of various stake...
- Discuss the importance of trade lifecycle man... Read More

Forex Trading - Technical Analysis and Risk Management
- Define ‘foreign exchange’
- Recall the six most-traded currencies in foreign exchang...
- Analyse the essential role of a country’s cen... Read More

ETF, Index Fund and Mutual Fund Investing
- Analyse mutual funds, index funds and exchange traded fu...
- Evaluate and select the right ETFs
- Identify and avoid the expensive fund fees Read More

Market Analysis: Japanese Candlesticks Decoded
- Explain the similarities and differences between line, b...
- State why traders favour candlestick charts
- Describe how traders use Japanese candlestick... Read More

Introduction to Finance and Financial Analysis
- Identify the criteria corporations use when making finan...
- Distinguish the rights and obligations of common and pre...
- Describe different ways of valuing stock Read More

Market Analysis: Price Pattern Trading
- Explain what a price pattern is
- Describe the conditions when a price pattern is valid
- Describe how traders use price pattern analys... Read More

Introduction to Stocks and Short Selling
- Define what stocks and shares are
- Examine how to work out how they are valued
- Identify how shorting works when buying and s... Read More

Beginner Valuation and Investing
- Analyze balance sheets and income statements
- Outline what depreciation and amortization are
- Identify good stocks from bad stocks on a basic level
- List the components of a balance sheet Read More
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