Learning Platform - "Markets & Trading"
Course: Exchange-trading
About the online training programme
This course contains animation-style videos with narration which set out how exchange trading works and can be arranged for. Attention is given to membership, market access and transaction fees, as well as the central order book plus the related order processing and matching. The course also covers the processes of clearing and margining.
Course Contents
This course covers the following video lessons:
- Definition & role of an exchange
- Types of exchanges
- Regulatory frameworks governing exchanges
- Exchange structure & governance
- Membership & rules
- Trading mechanisms & market models
- Clearing & settlement
- Exchange fees & costs
- Futures & option contracts
- Spot & term markets
- Exchange-traded futures (ETFs) & exchange-traded commodities (ETCs)
- Carbon & environmental markets
- Market participants & their roles
- Order types & execution strategies
- Market liquidity& price discovery
- Market risks & risk management
- Market surveillance & anti-manipulation measures
- Trends in technology impacting exchange-trading
- From order placement to settlement
- The role of exchanges during market crises – Historical market disruptions
This course also includes examination and certification.








