Advanced Diploma Trading Program

5 January 2026

12 Weeks

AUD 5795

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Our Advanced Trading Program has been developed to help you become a confident and skilled trader in just 12 weeks. We know people have busy lives these days, so we’ve made the program as flexible as possible to help fit your studies around other commitments.

We have nine regular start dates throughout the year, and you can pause and resume your chosen program at any time, for any reason, as many times as you wish.

Entry Requirements

The Advanced Trading Program is our premier program and gives you the option to achieve a Level 5 Diploma in Applied Financial Trading (if you choose to take the diploma assignments). The diploma qualification is accredited by ABE, regulated by Ofqual, the UK government regulator. 

We aim to provide a comprehensive understanding of how different trading techniques can be used in real-life situations, focusing on four pillars of trading knowledge:

  • Fundamental analysis – How macroeconomic data, politics and geopolitics affect markets.
  • Technical analysis – Using charts to monitor trends, analyse price action, and build trading strategies.
  • Trading Psychology – Understanding human emotions and avoiding emotional mistakes.
  • Risk Management – Managing risk to limit losses and maximise gains.

No prior trading knowledge is required since we start from the basics and work from there. We combine academic teaching with practical trading practice so you can apply your new skills in real-time markets.

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Once you complete the program, you should:

  • Have the knowledge and skills to trade confidently in financial markets.
  • Be comfortable trading real-time markets on different broker platforms.
  • Understand what central banks do, and how fundamental news and macro data affect market prices.
  • Be able to use technical analysis to identify price trends, manage risk and build reliable trading strategies.
  • Understand the importance of trading psychology and be able to control your emotions when trading.
  • Achieve the Level 5 Diploma in Applied Financial Trading (subject to passing the diploma assessments).

Where to start?

  • Fundamental Analysis
    • Central bank actions, macro data and political / geopolitical events
    • How and why does this news affect financial markets
    • Checking the daily macro data calendar
  • Which markets to trade?
    • Stocks, stock indices, FX, commodities, bonds and crypto
    • Intermarket analysis – how are different markets connected?

Building a Trading Strategy

  • Structure rule-based approach
  • Identifying a trade from conception to executionDeveloping a trade idea from conception to execution
    • Timeframe analysis
    • Trade Set-up – Trigger – Execution – Management (S-T-E-M)
    • Risk management and lot sizing

Analysing Price Action

  • Identifying major market levels
    • Support, resistance, trend lines and channels
    • Evaluating the strength of major market levels
    • How to trade around significant levels
  • Setting price targets and stop losses
    • How to identify realistic price targets
    • Reasons for stop levels – ensuring trades have enough time to develop
    • Managing risk-reward ratios

Analytical Tools

  • Using Japanese candlestick analysis to identify short-term shifts in sentiment
  • Identifying price patterns to build potential trades and set target levels
    • Head & shoulders, triangles, wedges, double top & bottoms, etc.
  • Introduction to Moving Averages and MACD
    • Identify underlying price trends
    • Generate objective trading signals
  • Bollinger Bands – Range trading, Pinch and trend reversal trading strategies
  • Volume and On-Balance Volume analysis
  • Oscillators and Momentum Indicators
    • Using price momentum to identify potential turning points
    • Rate of Change (ROC), Relative Strength Index (RSI) and stochastics

Understanding your emotions

  • Trading psychology – understanding our natural human emotions and biases
    • Hope, fear, greed, FOMO, revenge, anxiety, etc.
  • Managing emotions when holding winning or losing positions

Trading Strategy Development

  • Examples of a structured S-T-E-M approach
    • Straddle trade
    • Pivot point trading
    • Holy Grail trade

Benefits of Studying at LAT

The London Academy of Trading (LAT) is an award-winning, triple-accredited educator providing vocational programmes in financial markets trading. We pride ourselves on being the most trusted trading skills educators, helping our students improve their career prospects or supplement their income through trading.

Flexible Study Options

Flexibility

Fit your studies around your daily commitments with online, face-to-face or blended learning classes

Study Method Choice

Support

Our experienced mentors are available 10 hours a day, from Monday – Friday to provide you with expert advice

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Accreditations

We offer BAC and CPD-accredited courses which will effectively develop your understanding of financial market trading

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Central London Location

Our programmes include practical trading sessions on our live trading floor in central London

Interactive Daily Webinars

Expert Faculty

Benefit from our expert faculty, comprised of experienced traders and analysts from major financial companies including HSBC and Bloomberg

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