Trainings Cluster: Basics of Trading

The Competence Trainer is suitable for any professional in the commodity & energy markets with a business, control or support function. This includes regulators, compliance officers, surveillance experts, risk managers, analysts, clearing specialists, settlements officers and IT professionals, as well as junior traders and brokers.

Practice your abilities unlimited without risk. The simulations mimic real-life situations at work and the required market-related actions. A user can, for instance, act in the capacity of a trader and perform screen-based training, via a front-end trading system (replicating both OTC trading and exchange-trading), as well as by responding to telephone calls, either based on a dedicated assignment or free format (in any role of choice).

No, there are five ways to guide you, namely 1. instructions (pre-simulation), 2. a tutorial (at the start of the simulation), 3. reminders (during the simulation), 4. report & advice (post-simulation), and 5. exam.To ensure progress is not hindered, a tutorial helps you to get started, while reminders are generated during the simulations to keep you on track.

You turn information into knowledge. Competence training facilitates the conversion of information into knowledge by guiding learners through active engagement, critical analysis, and practical application of lessons learnt.

The bundle of trading simulations includes the following learning objectives:

• Master basic processes & concepts – Including related terminology & related aspects
  • The trading environment
  • The trade process & the contract lifecycle
  • Straight through processing (of orders and deals)
  • The decision-making process, psychology of markets and handling emotions
• Secure expertise in the trading process
  • Transacting or deal-making (buying & selling)
  • Open a position & close a position
  • Order types, plus order submission, processing and matching
  • Hitting & lifting
  • Market making & market taking (initiator & aggressor)
• Overcome position management
  • Long/short (master short selling)
  • Netting (multilateral)
• Conquer types of products
  • Spot contracts, forwards and futures
• Assure your expertise in pricing
  • Price formation, order book and bid & ask
  • Market liquidity
  • Price volatility
• Familiarise with the look & feel of screen-based trading.
  • What is shown on a screen? And which details matter most?
  • Analyse what bid or ask stands for
• Master the working of an order book
  • To analyse the bid-ask spread
  • To observe market depth
• Overcome exchange-trading
  • Clearing
• Master cash management
  • Initial margin
  • Variation margin
• Conquer risk management
  • Price volatility & price correlation
  • Scenario analysis: Value at risk (VaR)
• Perform market analysis
  • Processing data &, news as well as price forecasting
• Price chart analysis
  • Real-time graphical representation of the price development
• Forward curve analysis
  • Real-time representation of prices of contracts with a different time-to-maturity
  • Contango & Backwardation
• Master the relevance of timing
  • For any market participant, timing is essential; it will impact the financial performance.
• Learn how to optimise the financial performance
  • Securing future cash flows and margins
• Interpret result – Understand the financial statement
  • Take into account relevant aspects in order to qualify or to quantify the performance:
    • Direct transaction costs (fees), as well as indirect transaction costs (slippage)
    • Profit & loss (P/L), realised(after liquidation) & unrealised (open positions; M-to-M)
  • The process of (cash) collateralisation
    • Deposits (initial margin + variation margin)
  • Cash management
    • Finance liquidity & working capital
  • Identify transaction cost
    • Exchange fee & clearing fee
• Master mental management
  • Learn about trading psychology
  • Experience the gaming effect – Experience stress & adrenaline due to market dynamics
  • Experience a profit, but also a loss; hence, an a-symmetric mental experience
  • Experience the market going against your position
  • Perform multi-tasking

At every simulation you can choose to run it in fast mode (5 minutes), medium (10 minutes) or slow (30 minutes). Next, you have access to a multitude of (different) simulations. This means you need to multiply by this number. Furthermore, as you may run each simulation unlimited times, you can spend as much time as you’d like. Luckily, every time you run the same simulation;you will face other circumstances just like in reality (random scenarios lead to different market developments).

Send your request to renew your licence per email to info@entrima.org. Upon your payment we’ll effectuate your renewal.

Yes, easily. Send your request to extend the validity period of your licence per email to info@entrima.org. Upon your payment we’ll extend the validity period, or (if already expired) we’ll effectuate your renewal.

Any simulation ends with an exam, consisting of a selection of questions. Upon passing you’ll be certified instantly, ready for immediate download from the system, so that you can upload into your corporate and/or personal files.

Entrima offers a variety of learning services. Amongst these, a tailored training guided by a tutor (online or on-site) might be preferred, although Entrima’s “Intervision” service is another excellent option to extend your knowledge and skills by reflecting on a wide range of topics ongoing. This way, continuous professional developed is effectuated.