Learning Platform - "Trade Compliance & Surveillance"
Course: Reasons to Transact
About the online training programme
This educational programme covers the reasons to transact. It explains why market participants enter into deals. By means of video lessons is explained what motivates parties to buy or sell. Attention is given to various physical reasons to conclude deals, as well as various financial reasons to enter the market. Furthermore, the difference between hedging and speculation is set out and specific attention is given to particular concepts like asset-backed trading, proprietary trading and statistical arbitrage.
Course contents
This course covers the following videos:
- Reasons to transact – Introduction
- Reasons to transact – Intermediary services
- Reasons to transact – Commodity & capacity
- Reasons to transact – Physical & financial reasons
- Reasons to transact – Sourcing & sales
- Reasons to transact – The black box concept
- Reasons to transact – Balancing
- Reasons to transact – Liquidation
- Reasons to transact – Hedging
- Reasons to transact – Asset-backed trading
- Reasons to transact – Arbitrage
- Reasons to transact – Speculation
- Reasons to transact – Investing
- Reasons to transact – Comparison
- Reasons to transact – Proprietary trading
- Reasons to transact – Statistical arbitrage
This course also includes examination and certification.