Stock Exchange and Investment Training Course

Overview

This training is designed for anyone who is interested in the stock exchange and investment.

It intends to make people understand the technicalities with simple examples.

This course will explain how the stock exchange works in relation to the London Stock Exchange.

It guides you through the history of LSE and other Stock Exchanges. The participant will get familiar with financial site of LSE, how the share prices are calculated and what derivatives are and how the stock exchange is regulated by the government.

 

This course does NOT advise you what to invest in!

 

Requirements

None

 

Duration

7.00 hours
 
 

Course Outline

Exchange Markets

The need of price discovery

Demand and Supply

Types of Exchange Markets and their implementations

Short history of stock exchange

Stock Exchange and alternative markets

Stock Exchange Technicalities

Types of financial instruments

Shares, bonds

Derivatives

Shares

How share price is calculated

Types of shares

Demand and supply

Factors which may effect demand and supply

Market and net value

Source of income from shares

Dividends

Profit from sale

Gilts and Bonds

Derivatives

What are derivatives?

Risk hedge and speculation

Futures

Forward contracts

Options

Covered warrants

Indexes

How a value of indices is calculated

LSE indices

Stock Exchange and Regulation

How Stock Exchanges are regulated by government in the UK and the US

London Stock Exchange

Finding a stockbroker

Trading over the Internet