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Certificate in Financial Trading & Option Strategies

How do you take advantage of the current volatility of the stock markets? How do you design an effective strategy to maximize your profit and minimize your risks? How can you objectively identify key entry and exit points for a stock? How can you learn to analyze the markets the way professional traders do? This new Certificate program will provide a forward looking view on the stock and option markets. It will give participants a foundation of knowledge in stock and option markets as well as practical trading and market risk management skills so that participants can design effective trading strategies using options and make better forecasts and informed trading decisions based on technical analysis. If you want to build a career in financial trading and do not have an MBA in Finance or you want to be a successful day trader at home and do not have any effective trading strategies to enhance your profits, this program will help you accomplish both of these goals. Courses are designed for active day traders as well as those new to the field.

Certificate Requirements

  • This certificate requires the successful completion of four courses.
  • Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) may be granted for two courses.
  • Students have 3 years from the start date of their first course to complete the certificate.

Required Courses

SCS 2652 Value-Investing Strategies and Fundamental Analysis * (replacement)
SCS 0082  Business Economics * (is a part of the certificate until summer 2011)
SCS 0081  Quantitative Methods for Business Management
SCS 2023  Technical Analysis of Financial Markets
SCS 2191  Option Trading and Strategies

*SCS 0082 Business Economics will apply to the Certificate until Spring Summer 2011; those having taken this course prior to Spring Summer 2011 may apply it to the Certificate; from Spring Summer 2011 take SCS 2652 Value-Investing Strategies and Fundamental Analysis

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Upon completion of your certificate requirements, you must request your certificate by submitting a Certificate Request Form. Click here to complete the form online or download the PDF version here.

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