Assign clear ownership for each element of market analysis and trading strategy across the functions involved.
Financial Market Analysis and Intelligent Trading Strategies
Build a working method for market analysis and trading strategy that stands up to scrutiny and survives daily pressure.
Course Overview
The audit trail behind market analysis and trading strategy matters as much as the decision itself. Models supporting trading strategy fail quietly, and usually at the worst moment. Field experience suggests that the barrier to better the financial and banking practice discipline is rarely technical. Moving market analysis and trading strategy from written policy into daily practice is not achieved by a single decision. Participants take away a working set of documents supporting the wider financial and banking practice agenda, ready to be adapted internally. This programme builds trading strategy from first principles, without padding and without omitting what matters. The level assumes working familiarity with the business line but no prior formal training in market analysis and trading strategy. Each session closes with a decision the participant must justify about trading strategy in their own setting. Participants leave with a first-ninety-days plan for the financial and banking practice discipline rather than a set of notes.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Document the approval chain for exceptions to policy on trading strategy.
Integrate market analysis and trading strategy into existing management routines rather than running it separately.
Prepare the regulatory submissions arising from trading strategy.
Plan the remediation route when a weakness in market analysis and trading strategy is identified.
Prepare a short, evidence-based briefing on trading strategy for senior management.
Design the reporting on market analysis and trading strategy that reaches decision makers in time to act.
Who Should Attend
Compliance officers overseeing market analysis and trading strategy.
Risk managers assessing the exposure created by trading strategy.
Internal auditors reviewing the controls around market analysis and trading strategy.
Members of committees that take decisions affecting trading strategy.
Investment and portfolio managers exposed to market analysis and trading strategy.
Finance managers reporting on trading strategy.
Course Modules
Market analysis and trading strategy: stress testing and scenario analysis
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Comparing market analysis and trading strategy with recognised practice
- Set early warning indicators for market analysis and trading strategy with defined action thresholds.
- Design the exception process for trading strategy and require a documented rationale.
- Review the pricing of market analysis and trading strategy against the risk being assumed.
- Benchmark the organisation's trading strategy against comparable operations.
Session 2Pricing trading strategy for the risk actually taken
- Translate the appetite for market analysis and trading strategy into limits someone monitors daily.
- Identify the key controls over trading strategy and who tests them.
- Build the competence framework that supports market analysis and trading strategy.
- Anticipate the objections trading strategy will raise and prepare the answers.
Trading strategy: measurement, models and their assumptions
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The assumption inside the model for trading strategy that nobody revisits
- Draft the minimum viable control framework for market analysis and trading strategy.
- Check the legal and contractual exposure created by trading strategy.
- State the risk appetite for market analysis and trading strategy as a number, not an adjective.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on trading strategy.
Session 2Moving trading strategy from approval to execution
- Document the remediation plan for each known weakness in market analysis and trading strategy.
- Record what was learned when trading strategy did not go as planned.
- Set the review interval for market analysis and trading strategy and who attends.
- Test trading strategy against a scenario the organisation would rather not model.
Trading strategy: reporting that supports a decision
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The control on trading strategy that looks strong and is not
- Map the handovers in market analysis and trading strategy between functions and secure them.
- Set out the decisions in trading strategy that require sign-off and by whom.
- Agree who signs off market analysis and trading strategy and record that they did.
- Confirm segregation of duties across initiation, approval and settlement of trading strategy.
Session 2Handling a breach of policy on market analysis and trading strategy properly
- Test the procedure for market analysis and trading strategy against a realistic scenario.
- Review whether trading strategy is aligned with the objectives of the business line.
- Reduce the variation in how market analysis and trading strategy is carried out between teams.
- Review concentration by counterparty, sector and geography inside trading strategy.
Trading strategy: risk appetite, limits and policy
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Reporting trading strategy so the reader can act on it
- Check that market analysis and trading strategy still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when trading strategy underperforms.
- Assess the capital consumed by market analysis and trading strategy under current and stressed conditions.
- Confirm reporting on trading strategy reaches the committee that can act on it.
Session 2Reading the current state of trading strategy honestly
- Prepare the evidence pack demonstrating market analysis and trading strategy operated as designed.
- Confirm regulatory reporting on trading strategy is complete, timely and reconciled.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether market analysis and trading strategy is improving.
- Identify where judgement in trading strategy is legitimate and where it is not.
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Silver Package
At least 3 people
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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