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Course summary

Please check the Sheffield Hallam University website for the latest information. Course summary:

  • Develop analytical and digital skills necessary for a successful career within financial trading.
  • Gain an additional Financial Trading qualification alongside your degree.
  • Build an eye-catching CV with project opportunities from a range of Financial Services firms.
Learn how financial markets work and apply your knowledge on this varied course delivered in conjunction with a global proprietary trading form. This course will equip you with knowledge of both traditional and contemporary assets classes including cryptocurrencies and blockchain. You’ll learn how to trade both futures and options on major exchanges and how algorithms can be used to automate trading, preparing you for a successful career within the industry. How you learn: All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive. Our teaching staff include experienced academics, many of which have also had senior careers in Finance and have worked in the global financial markets. Their industry knowledge and expertise feeds into the learning and teaching for this course. This is reinforced with expert lecturers and regular industry guests, who will help you tackle both theoretical concepts and practical challenges. In addition, the course includes a standalone trading qualification delivered by a global proprietary trading firm. You learn through:
  • live market trading
  • portfolio management simulations
  • case studies/scenarios
  • lectures and seminars
  • guest lectures and employability workshops
  • interactive sessions
  • real-life corporate projects and activities
  • timetabled contact sessions on campus and online
  • screencasts
Our students can also, through an online assessment, gain the Bloomberg Markets Concept (BMC) Certificate, completely free of charge to demonstrate their mastery of Bloomberg data manipulation. This certificate adds value to your CV and makes you stand out in the job market. Applied learning - Live projects The ways in which you learn on this course are extremely applied in nature. We make the course come to life by incorporating real world projects, and get you trading real markets with live data on tier 1 trading platforms. You will experience first-hand how fast paced financial markets are and gain the experiences necessary for a future career or your own start-up. The course also puts your learning into practice through its dissertation or applied business project. These projects put your acquired skills to the test of solving real world business problems and undertake leading research in this field. You will have the opportunity to work individually on a 'live' project in conjunction with a client sourced by specialist teams at the university who work alongside private, public and third sector organisations. Alternatively, you can pursue a dissertation route working alongside our research supervisors to produce high quality industry focussed research. Networking opportunities With guest lectures from the likes of industry leaders, professional traders and academics from other institutions, there is ample opportunity to make lasting industry contacts.

Modules

Module and assessment information for future years is displayed as currently validated and may be liable to change. When selecting electives, your choices will be subject to the core requirements of the course. As a result, selections may be limited to a choice between one of two or more specified electives in some instances. Modules studied may differ depending on when you start your course. Year 1 - Compulsory modules Applied Financial Trading Dissertation Or Applied Business Project Financial Derivatives And Risk Management Financial Regulation And Sustainability Fund Management Global Financial Markets Statistics And Data Modelling Trading Algorithms Final year - Compulsory modules Applied Financial Trading

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Entry requirements

You typically need one of the following: • 2.2 honours degree in a relevant subject • recognised professional qualification or equivalent in a relevant subject Relevant subjects include • business management • finance • accounting • economics • banking • law • the natural sciences • IT and computing. We consider applicants without these academic qualifications’ dependant on personal, professional and work experience and other formal qualifications. You may also be able to claim credit points which can reduce the amount of time it takes to complete your qualification at Sheffield Hallam. Overseas applicants from countries whose first language is not English must normally produce evidence of competence in English, such as an IELTS score of 6.0 with 5.5 in all skills. If your English language skill is currently below an IELTS score of 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in all skills we recommend you consider a Sheffield Hallam University Pre-sessional English course which will enable you to achieve an required level of English.

English language requirements

Overseas applicants from countries whose first language is not English must normally produce evidence of competence in English, such as an IELTS score of 6.0 with 5.5 in all skills. If your English language skill is currently below an IELTS score of 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in all skills we recommend you consider a Sheffield Hallam University Pre-sessional English course which will enable you to achieve the required level of English.

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Additional fee information

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Global Financial Trading at Sheffield Hallam University - UCAS