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The course takes a thorough and considered approach to trading and risk management, allowing you to see the markets very much as a professional trader sees them.

The course covers both day-trading, where a trade is carried out in a single day, and longer trades that are carried out over the course of a few days or weeks.

All our courses come with a 30-day 100% money-back guarantee, so you can be sure that the material is suitable for you.

We are a real company with real people, based in the UK, so if you need to speak to us then just give our friendly team a call or send us an email. Our contact details are at the top of the page.

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We realise that a lot of courses cover too much material, leaving you confused about the techniques that you should use. Instead, we have carefully considered which topics to include and which to leave out, covering only the material that a professional trader considers to be important. This is often not the material covered on a standard beginner's course!

When we cover a topic we explain exactly why you need to know it, and exactly how it fits into our step-by-step trading strategies. You will always understand why we are showing you something. Here are the seven modules of the CFD course that you will be working through:

In the following course description, don't worry if you see some words that you don't yet understand. During the course, we'll assume that you have no previous experience of the markets, and we'll fully introduce every concept to you.

Module 1: An Introduction to Global Markets

This module is a primer on the markets. Here you will learn the basics about how the global financial markets operate and how the different instruments such as bonds, stocks, commodities, CFDs, futures and foreign exchange are traded and what purpose they fulfil. You will learn the difference between exchange-traded markets and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, agency markets and principal markets, as well as spot markets and derivatives markets such as forward, futures and options markets.

Module 2: Mastering Contracts For Difference (CFDs)

The second module focuses specifically on the instrument at hand, in this case Contracts-For-Difference, or CFDs. You will learn how CFDs are priced. We explain the difference between traditional CFDs, exchange traded CFDs and Direct Market Access CFDs. The course covers the regulatory environment, commissions and margin. Some sample trades are also given. In short, you will gain all the knowledge and terminology you need to feel comfortable with this instrument.

Module 3: Risk Management

In this module we explain the difference between investment and trading and introduce the vital concept of Probability of Ruin, the mathematical underpinning of all trading activity. This leads directly into risk management and the use of leverage and position sizing: crucial disciplines for trading any market or instrument. At the end of this module you will understand how you should trade in principle and why deviating from these principles is the reason that the majority of market participants end up losing money.

Module 4: Fundamental Analysis

Fundamental analysis tries to predict where markets are going based on the underlying economic factors underpinning a market, whether this is supply and demand for a given commodity, the macroeconomic outlook for a currency or the price to earnings (PE) ratio of a stock. Even technical analysis strategies are informed by fundamental analysis.

Module 5: Technical Analysis and Trading Strategies

Technical analysis looks at historical price and volume charts to determine where prices are heading. The key skills in technical analysis are finding good risk/reward opportunities by determining the trend direction, support and resistance points and spotting overbought/oversold situations which might portend a reversal. This module contains two highly-detailed step-by-step trading strategies.

Module 6: The Psychology of Successful Trading

Here we explain the latest findings from behavioural finance and how they can make you a more successful trader. Learn to keep your trading on course by avoiding the most common mistakes made by losing traders due to psychological biases within all of us. Understand the concept of emotional capital and how it is as important as monetary capital in successful trading.

Module 7: Developing a Trading Plan

In this part of the course we teach you how to plan your trades and, more importantly, to trade your plans. We look at the key features needed in a trading account, and the questions that any trading plan should answer.

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We designed our trading simulator with the following aims in mind:

1. To make trading practice quick and efficient: Rather than waiting for the markets to move in real time, a whole month of trading can be simulated in just a few minutes. This is the fastest way to practice your trading.

2. To test your skills: You'll soon know whether you've fully understood everything on the course, giving you a chance to test your learning at your own pace.

3. To give you confidence: Whilst nothing can completely replicate the feeling of trading for real money, you can face the markets confident that your techniques would have been profitable in the past.