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I am looking for intensive training courses in trading in London!
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Question: I want to be trader. Is CFA any good for me? Do you know about training courses in trading I can attend?
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CFA is highly valuable anywhere in Finance. Don’t know about training courses, look up BPP or Kaplan
Perhaps you should review your English language skills first ?
if you have the self-discipline, I recommend Stalla Resources, where you are given lecture notes, dvd classes and study alone. As for trading courses, I guess it depends on if you want to trade as a market maker, prop etc. I recommend trade2win as a good starting point – there are some ppl on there with experience who are happy to give advice. In my opinion the CFA is not required to be in the industry, but it is highly regarded.
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Hey, check http://www.Benedix.co.uk
whats wrong with my english?
erm, i probably wouldn’t look at benedix.co.uk – perhaps http://www.amplifytrading.com ?
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CFA will have no use in a trading environment. Its expensive, very difficult and likely to take you 3-4 years to qualify. Its also very popular now and the pass rates remain low (35% on average across the three levels).
The CAIA might be better as its based around alternatives (Hedge funds etc) who have active traders in their teams, but ultimately depends on what you want to trade and in what environment.
If you want to learn specific skills such as technical analysis, you can do a master course in that. Alternatively (if you are a mug) you can buy powerful, amazingly profitable trading systems, robots etc of the net that will make you a millionaire by Tuesday.
Sorry I have to disagree with these guys, CFA will be useful if you want to be a trader as it gives you the necessary product knowledge without which you don’t know what you’re dealing with. For example, one of the famous Global Macro Traders interviewed in ‘Inside the house of money’ says he gets all his junior traders to pursue the CFA, if you don’t have a strong grounding in financial products how can you expect to become a successful Trader?