Professional Development Short-Course for English and Stock Broking


International Trade and the Stock Exchange

The investment world is all about theories, opinions, interpretations and predictions about the realities of national and international trade with daily quotes about movements in trading on the Stock Exchange.

This short course can be tailored to suit delegates needs, from beginner to expert level, and could, subject to an agreed learning and assessment contract, provide specific credit points for modules within the units of study that make
up full-time programmes, should further study be undertaken at a later date.

The following is a list of topics that might be included in an organisation’s international trade programme, as delegates develop their knowledge, skills and language proficiency in the field of the Stock Exchange and stock broking.


• Business Communications for working in the Stock Exchange, and/or having dealings with Stock Brokers.

• Economic Theories of Comparative Advantage, Supply and Demand, and the determination of price

• Sources of finance – capital and repayment terms, interest, dividends and scrip-dividends

• International Trade and its benefits

• Commodities and commodity markets

• Transportation of commodities and the "supply shocks"

• Price Movements in Commodity Markets – The Bear Market and The Bull Market

• The foreign exchange market – spot rates and forward rates

• The traded options market - Commodity Traders Advice– futures and options

• The International Financial Futures Exchange – hedging and speculation
• Financial markets – savings or investments? Debentures, bonds and share certificates – Who are the lenders, and who are the borrowers?

• Flotation and Rights Issues

• Financial Intermediaries and the money market

• The securities or capital market and the Stock Exchange – its history

• Analysing the capital market – symptoms and causes of corporate success and signs of decline

• Characteristics of crisis situations and what to look for in potential turnaround strategies

• Stocks (fixed interest securities - Gilt-edged treasury stock) and Shares – why own them and why adopt a portfolio approach

• Trading Stocks and Shares – Buying, selling, newspaper mid-price, yield and dividend cover;

• Brokerage firms and types of orders

• The do's and don'ts of trading in stocks and shares



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