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The London Academy of Trading

The London Academy of Trading (LAT) is an award-winning and trusted provider of financial trading education. We are a pioneer in this sector, being the first UK Trading Academy to provide accredited and regulated qualifications in Financial Markets Trading.

Our courses have been developed to allow students to study around their commitments either on our London Trading floor, online or a combination of both. Trading mentors will be available to students ten hours a day to help improve their understanding of financial markets and how to develop robust trading strategies.

Financial Markets Wrap-Up

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Well, were at the end of another interesting week of trading. We started the week with some poor Chinese trade data, coupled with a back track on rumours from the previous week that covid restrictions would be loosened which kicked us off with a slightly negative start but the action for the week was never [...]
This Week’s Financial Markets

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Looking back to last week, we had a busy week on the calendar. Kicking off the Central Banks was the RBA on Tuesday morning who hiked rates for the 7th consecutive meeting, by 25bps, but sparked some speculation that they could in fact end their hiking cycle earlier than expected. However, with the YoY Trimmed [...]
UK in Recession: an Overview of What Could Happen & How You Can Take Advantage

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Recently, the Bank of England has issued a warning about a slowdown in economic growth towards the end of 2022, with similar worries persisting into 2023. Overall, the upcoming emergence of a recession has been fuelled by a mix of several detrimental dynamics for the UK. Uncovering the Dynamics that Lead to Recession The United [...]

Week in Review

January 27, 2023 | City Talk

Well, we’re at the end of another exciting week of trading with the Dollar flat, stocks higher, oil slightly relatively subdued and treasuries lower. Interesting week as yields push higher and the S&P looks set for a gain, which recently has not been the expected outcome of that sequence of events. After a positive end [...]
Markets Wrap

January 20, 2023 | City Talk

Another eventful week of trading comes to a close, and we end the week quite differently to how we started it. Last week we saw solid upside in stocks with no real fundamental driver, as banks kicked off the Q4 earnings season and the US posted a relatively strong Michigan consumer sentiment figure. The theme [...]
How We’re Trading US CPI This Week

January 12, 2023 | City Talk

Not much action to kick off the week unfortunately, but US CPI on Thursday is probably the reason for that. With markets lying in wait, hopefully that means there are some opportunities to be taken advantage of as we head into it tomorrow. Bigger Picture In the lead up to the release we need to [...]
US Data in Focus as we begin 2023

January 6, 2023 | City Talk

Back again for another year of trading and our focus immediately shifts to the world’s largest economy in the midst of the impending global recession that we are looking at heading into the rest of 2023. As manufacturing has showed a continuing slowdown this week we turn our attention to the first non-farm payrolls release [...]
CPI and the FED in focus

December 14, 2022 | City Talk

Another interesting week in markets this time round, where it could end up being crunch time for the FED to make a decision on when these rate hikes are going to end. We’ve just had the November CPI print out of the US and have had some massive moves. Which begs the question, do the [...]
Markets Week Ahead

November 28, 2022 | City Talk

Last Week After a slightly mixed week last week not providing much direction, or trading opportunities, we will hopefully get some more viable trade ideas in the coming week. The one big move we did have last week came from the oil market, and we are through the lows again to start the week. Ongoing [...]
UK assets in focus this week

November 16, 2022 | City Talk

This week’s focus in markets apart from the US’s weak inflation print last week is on Sterling and the FTSE in the wake of a raft of economic data points, as well as the new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn statement on Thursday the 17th. UK inflation this morning came in at a level not seen [...]
Looking ahead to the FED this evening

November 2, 2022 | City Talk

Wednesday the 2nd of November today and we are a few hours away from the next monetary policy update from the Federal Reserve. Looking ahead to today’s meeting the FED is widely expected to hike their target Fed Funds range by another 75 basis points to bring it to a range of 3.75%-4%. This would [...]

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