TRADING & FINANCIAL MARKET ANALYSIS 2015

A FIVE DAY EVENING PROGRAMME WITH AMPLIFY TRADING

Placed at the forefront of current financial

market volatility, London based trading firm

Amplify Trading delivers an invaluable

opportunity for new traders to develop a well-

respected practical skill-set in today’s financial

industry and an in-depth understanding of

today’s financial markets.

Building on fifteen years of trading experience

Amplify Trading has developed an industry

leading training operation adjacent to its trading

arm. The quality of Amplify’s training is validated

by the fact that we are now integral to the

graduate training programmes at leading

investment banks such as HSBC, Bank of

America, Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan where

Amplify is brought in to help prepare their new

employees for roles within capital markets.

Amplify Trading has worked hard to build a

reputation of excellence and professionalism

within the industry, and we continuously strive

to exceed the expectations of all our clients.

We would like to invite new traders to our part

time evening programme which takes place on

our trading floor over five days from 18:00 -

21:00. This short course is designed to make

institutional trading accessible to new traders

who have commitments during the day but still

want to gain an insight into trading at an

institutional level with Amplify Trading. Each

session will begin with key theory sessions

delivered by our head of trading, which traders

will then apply onto live market prices as we

trade into the US session market close at 21:00.

A TRADING EXPERIENCE AT THE HEART OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL MARKETS

Piers Curran, Head of Trading, monitoring Amplify traders’ positions

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INTENSIVE TRAINING AND STRUCTURED OBJECTIVES

As you progress through five days of intensive training you will meet the following objectives in order to develop a insight into trading within financial markets at an institutional level.

Develop a fundamental understanding in order to trade across international financial markets in response to breaking financial news and analysis

Use on-line material provided to help prepare for intensive evening programme

Understand the main driving factors behind equity, commodity, currency and fixed income valuations

Gain first-hand experience in the importance of behavioural finance and trading psychology within an environment of uncertainty and risk

Learn to understand and analyse financial markets by applying technical analysis techniques across asset classes

Apply mentoring support and advice from experienced traders at Amplify as they continuously monitor your performance and progression

See how in reality standard economic theory may not apply within an expected timeframe

and the resulting challenge to risk management practices

Create a base of experience and knowledge on which to build continued improvement on

completion of the programme

Amplify will work with all trainees to help the prepare for the intensive week on the trading floor. Trainees will be able to continue to use software and systems provided by Amplify Trading after the training week to continue to apply lessons learned and develop their trading performance.

LOCATION

All traders on the one week evening programme will be invited onto their own desk on the trading floor

for the duration of the programme. Candidates can continue to develop their trading practices after the

short course through our state-of-the art virtual platform with a live link to our trading floor content and

discussions.

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SYSTEMS, RISK MANAGEMENT AND SUPPORT

TRADING PLATFORM

All our traders are set up with the institutional trading software that is used throughout all top level trading

floors around the globe. Traders view in real time the assets in their trading portfolio, with prices, orders and

fills being updated by the microsecond. The direct market access trading platform (above) with level two

visibility allows over 150 technical analysis functions to be applied.

Traders will be introduced to quantitative trading methods to back-test their strategies and will be shown how

to incorporate our series of proprietary trading algorithms and analysis software to better assess price

opportunity.

NEWS AND ANALYSIS

When training with Amplify, you learn how to assess and understand the changing fundamental news flow. In

order to take full advantage of that knowledge it is important to get that news fast. All our traders receive

access to live, up to the second market news and analysis, as soon as it breaks. Each day you will receive our

strategy reports from our team of analysts to help provide further insight into the products you trade.

MARKET BRIEFINGS AND DATA REVIEWS

At the start of the EU and US trading sessions you will be invited by our Head of Trading, Piers Curran, to join a

market briefing discussion to prepare for economic announcements throughout the day. You will be immersed

in continuous market debate with our experienced traders assessing economic data as it gets released,

providing an invaluable practical market experience.

Above left, institutional trading platform. Above right, Amplify Trading’s news service and virtual trading room

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TESTIMONIALS OF WORK

Institutional Feedback

“Truly a highlight of training. The facilitators were incredibly prepared and the interface advanced. This

was simply the best and most important part of training.”

Kellie Burke, Bank of America Merrill Lynch VP, Global Markets Learning

Individual professional feedback

Jonathan Rawicz

CFA Associate

Director at Quilter

My thoughts on the course are as follows:

I felt that both the time and the money was well spent on the course. The skills I acquired will allow

me to improve my investment decisions, by complementing my existing fundamental analysis skills

with technical analysis skills. In particular, I really valued the fact that the course was given by actual

market practitioners in a live market environment. This allowed for a strong practical as well as theo-

retical focus, which allowed me to get not only an understanding of technical analysis and trading, but

a real feel for what is involved in using it in practice.

I also really appreciated the fact that the lectures were interspersed with actual trading sessions,

which effectively broke up the material into bit size digestible chunks, as well as al-lowed me to keep

my attention levels high. In addition, the opportunity to sit amongst the traders on the floor rather

than just in a class-room, it gave me a much better understanding of what a trading floor is actually

like and what trading day in day out is really all about.

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STRUCTURED PRACTICAL TRAINING IN FINANCIAL MARKETS

Each session starts with key theory which candidates then apply in live market prices. Every trading decision is

monitored and reviewed in order to provide feedback on progression to help the candidate best developed their

understanding of financial markets.

MONDAY: EQUITIES

18:00 - 21:00

OBJECTIVE: To understand what factors drive today’s financial markets and to become familiar

with the trading platform. Implement risk limits and basic technical analysis in US equity indices.

18:00 - 19:00 Introduction to financial markets

19:00 - 19:45 Tech analysis - support/resistance/trends, candlestick analysis; Trading economic data

19:45 - 21:00 Introduction to the functionality of the trading systems

Candidates trade equity indices including the S&P 500, Nasdaq

TUESDAY: FOREIGN EXCHANGE

18:00 - 21:00

OBJECTIVE: To understand currency market valuations based on national economic variations

including sovereign ratings, trade balances, economic growth and monetary policy. Trade major

currency pairs as well as non USD currency crosses.

18:00 - 19:00 Exchange rates and international macroeconomics

19:00 - 19:45 Tech analysis: Charting techniques; Trailing stops and OCO’s

19:45 - 21:00 Candidates trade major FX currency pairs and non USD currency crosses

WEDNESDAY: COMMODITIES

18:00 - 21:00

OBJECTIVE: To apply a practical understanding of price discovery in energy markets. To under-

stand the basics behind price drivers including geopolitics, weather patterns and changing supply

fundamentals such as US shale gas production.

18:00 - 19:00 Commodity focus hard and soft

19:00 - 19:45 Contemporary global commodity drivers; commodity prices and the impact on correlated assets;

Technical Analysis : Fibonacci retracement, MACD and Pivot Points

19:45 - 21:00 Trading Crude oil futures into the session close.

THURSDAY: FIXED INCOME

18:00 - 21:00

OBJECTIVE: To learn about bond markets and their importance for the global financial system.

To trade US government Treasury bonds and to apply more advanced technical analysis tools.

18:00 - 19:00 Fixed Income products and markets; The primary Vs secondary market;

19:00 - 19:45 Arbitrage and the changing correlation between financial assets;

19:45 - 21:00 Trading US Treasuries into the session close

FRIDAY: MULIT-ASSET TRADING

18:00 - 21:00

OBJECTIVE: To trade all assets simultaneously keeping to all risk management protocols set. To

gain an insight to the behavioural pressures on trading decisions.

18:00 - 19:00 Behavioural finance and risk management

19:00 - 19:45 Trading Psychology ; Prospect theory, herd mentality, investor bias

19:45 - 21:00 Trading all assets into session close

A FIVE DAY INTESNIVE PROGRAMME WITH AMPLIFY TRADING

This one week programme incorporates the main themes delivered in our longer programmes at a

more accessible level on a part time basis. The training fees for the programme for 2015 are £750.00

for the full week including all VAT and system costs. Throughout the year of 2015 we plan to have one

start date a month for the five day programme and please bear in mind space will be limited to thir-

teen candidates for each intake.

Please contact us to reserve a place, alternatively please use this registration link.

Yours sincerely,

William de Lucy

Managing Director

Spend each evening on our trading floor as you go through the one week programme

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