While other Equities Markets courses add formulas and complexity to hide the lack of real-world experience, Wall Street Prep’s Equities Markets Certification was created by former sales and trading professionals focused on what interns, new hires, and early career analysts need to know on the job.
Designed following extensive discussion with hiring managers at major investment banks, we built our Equities Markets program around gaining the practical knowledge needed of growing markets such as ETFs, Delta One and Prime Brokerage.
About this Equities Markets Certification Program
While other Equities Markets courses add formulas and complexity to hide the lack of real-world experience, Wall Street Prep’s Equities Markets Certification was created by former sales and trading professionals focused on what interns, new hires, and early career analysts need to know on the job.
Designed following extensive discussion with hiring managers at major investment banks, we built our Equities Markets program around gaining the practical knowledge needed of growing markets such as ETFs, Delta One and Prime Brokerage.
Taught by Markets Professionals
Master how to use the Bloomberg terminal to analyze financial statements, find consensus EPS and monitor short interest.
A Comprehensive Program
Designed with input from the largest global investment banks on what Equities Markets salespeople and traders need to know.
Meaningful, Shareable Certification
Graduates will receive a blockchain-verified, shareable certification that can easily be added to LinkedIn and resumes.
Your Path to Certification
This course is career-focused. We begin with an overview of how a individual stocks are traded on an exchange. Then we analyze the drivers of a company’s public valuation using the Bloomberg Excel Add-In and the investor relations role; proceed to discuss equity indices and different approaches in the market to invest in these indices including asset managers, ETFs, futures and Delta One; and conclude with a discussion of securities lending and prime brokerage, analyzing how asset managers lend hedge funds the shares to short.
Recommended Path
1 Cash EquitiesWeek 1
2 Equity ValuationWeek 1
3 Equity Indices, Asset Managers and ETFsWeek 2
4 Equity Futures and Delta OneWeek 3
5 Hedge Fund StrategiesWeek 3
6 Securities Lending and Prime BrokerageWeek 4
7 ESG InvestingWeek 4
What You’ll Learn
Master the technical skills and concepts that Equities traders are expected to know on the trading floor
Learn how to chart, graph and analyze stocks, indices and futures on Bloomberg
Speak and understand the trader jargon
Analyze company financials using the Bloomberg Excel-Add In
Demystify the Buy-Side business model and learn how Asset Managers and Hedge Funds are paid and their economic drivers and priorities
Learn how ETF Traders profit from arbitrage opportunities
Compare funded investment options (Mutual Funds, ETFs) with Unfunded investment Options (Futures and Equity Swaps)
Discover how derivatives are traded, margined, and hedged
Understand how to “short a stock” and the Securities Lending process
Demystify Hedge Fund Trading strategies
This program includes the following 7 courses
1 Cash Equities
Cash Equities are the fundamental building blocks of the Equity Markets. We begin with an overview of the Equities trading floor and mapping out the different roles and responsibilities. We then take a look at exchange trading, and discuss the different order types, trading conventions and the opening and closing auctions. Next we dive into the spe …
2 Equity Valuation
Designed for Salespeople and Traders, this course provides an overview of equity valuation including the P/E ratio and EV/EBTIDA. We begin with an overview of valuation metrics and drivers of the income statement. We the discuss EPS and how we arrive at consensus EPS. After discussing the concepts, we see how salespeople, traders and investors use …
3 Equity Indices, Asset Managers and ETFs
Equity Indices such as the S&P500 drive market sentiment. We begin by discussing the major equity indices and then dive into the detail of how they are constructed and calculated. Next, we explore Asset Managers and explore how they invest funds for both institutional and retail investors. We discuss different strategies, including active versu …
4 Equity Futures and Delta One
Most traders start their day by looking at Equity Futures. This course builds on the Equity Indices, Asset Managers and ETFs course which looked at funded investments. The Equity Futures and Delta One course focuses on derivatives and achieving the same exposure using unfunded investments. We begin with an overview of futures and discuss details of …
5 Hedge Fund Strategies
This course demystifies Hedge Fund Strategies and how Hedge Fund Investors evaluate Hedge Funds. We begin by discussion traditional equity hedge funds and then discussing the strategies of growing quantitative hedge funds. Next, we discuss Macro, Relative Value and Credit Hedge funds, with many of these hedge funds using leverage to magnify returns …
6 Securities Lending and Prime Brokerage
How do you short a stock? In this course, we discuss the process to short a stock and walk through an example of how a hedge fund would borrow shares an asset manager through a securities lender. We discuss the fee model and economics of borrowing shares through a securities lender. Next, we analyze short interest metrics on Bloomberg including how …
7 ESG Investing, Green Bonds and Social Bonds
The last decade has seen exponential growth in ESG investing worldwide. Designed for those seeking to learn about the role of Sustainable Finance at an Investment Bank, this course explores exactly how this transformation happened and how the market formalized the structure and conventions for Green Bonds and Social Bonds. It discusses both from th …
Get the Equities Markets Certification
Trainees are eligible to take the WSP Equities Markets Certification Exam for 24 months from the date of enrollment. Those who complete the exam and score above 70% will receive a the certification. The exam is a challenging online assessment that covers the most difficult concepts taught in the program.
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Eric Cheung
Eric is the lead instructor for Wall Street Prep’s Capital Markets and Sales & Trading programs. Eric’s financial markets career began after he was a finalist for J.P. Morgan’s Fantasy Futures trading competition. Eric worked at J.P. Morgan for 10 years across DCM, Syndicate and Sales & Trading Roles, including in the Cross Asset Sales & Structuring group with trade execution experience across all asset classes. Eric is an expert in International Markets and Cross-Border transactions with global work experience in New York, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
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