The Students vs City Traders Programme

Hi,

There is a programme being offered by InvestIn at UCL this year where you spend a day in London learning the ins and outs of trading on the financial markets. Has anyone been on this before? Or, does anyone know whether this day would be worth the £165 price tag?

Here is the link to the website.
http://investineducation.co.uk/index.php/traders

Thanks


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What do you hope to get out of it?

Events held by banks etc are more beneficial and better value imo. Anything else can be found through a couple of searches on Google/YouTube if you're keen enough.

Hi, I suppose what I'm looking to get out of it is experience of that area of work in The City, as well as some networkig opportunities and something to put on my CV.

I haven't heard much of these events put on by banks. Have you been to any? Are there any you'd recommend?

Are you at university? If not, there are a few more events at BB's that you can still apply to attend this summer.

Thanks a lot for your reply! I'm in Year 12, would you mind pointing me in the direction of these other things I could apply to for this summer?


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I would be interested in this too, I also am in year 12 but Trade on Pseudo platforms for FOREX and Stocks and am over $600,000 in profit since September last year (Real time data). If you have this on your CV you'd be miles ahead of others, IBs will look at this as gold when you apply for jobs/Internships.

I would be interested in this too, I also am in year 12 but Trade on Pseudo platforms for FOREX and Stocks and am over $600,000 in profit since September last year (Real time data). If you have this on your CV you'd be miles ahead of others, IBs will look at this as gold when you apply for jobs/Internships.

what did you start with?

it won't nescessarily be viewed as gold tbf, given it's a dummy platform it will show motivation which is about it.

What platforms do you use and when did you start?

Started with ~10K and yeah I agree in that there isn't any emotional factors affecting me from buying or selling so I'll taker bigger risks.

~600% profit in under a year?

Yep, I took some really big risks i.e. I'd focus on the fluctuations day to day with $HEMP and $VPER, So I basically day traded them.

I'd even leverage up to 70% of my net funds.

I mainly trade FOREX on Trading212, I started when I was about 14 or so after watching a documentary on the Financial Crisis. Got work experience with JP Morgan this Summer and my Uncle works at a Hedge Fund so I was able to get more work experience at the LSE Trading floor and at another Hedge fund trading room.

Hi All,

I will be graduating in 2016 and already looking for positions for next year in Investment Banking. The competition is very fierce though. I already have a summer internship from Deloitte but I have been told it is not enough.
Currently I am taking this algo trading course from London Institute of Trading. Didn`t really know what to expect in the beginning; mainly enrolled there for extra points on my CV. But so far the course is very good and I am actually learning how to develop my own trading strategy. Really good teachers as well. I highly recommend it especially if you want to learn more than what a normal trading course will offer you.
Also do any of you know what other work experiences you need for those top graduate schemes?

Thank you