🔹Financial Markets - Business & Career prospects
What are financial markets, what happens there, and what do you do in it?
A marketplace where the sale and purchase of tradeable financial assets, a.k.a securities such as bonds, stocks, foreign exchange, commodities, crypto currency, derivatives takes place.
What happens there?
Different Financial Assets are traded (bought and sold)
What do you do in it?
You trade (buy or sell) the different financial assets in these markets, using mathematical strategies and tools, with the goal of making a profit.
Established Theorists explaining Financial Markets
Here are some of the renowned experts who studied the financial markets and have built the theories on which modern-age trading is carried out.
Leonardo Fibonacci - for his contributions to number theory – Fibonacci sequence
Kondratieff - the business cycle theory known as Kondratiev waves.
Benner – Benner Cycle - business and commodity price forecasts, which were based on three main cycles
Charles Dow - The Dow Theory is a technical framework that predicts the market.
Ralph Elliott - Wave Principle, a form of technical analysis that identifies trends in the financial markets.
The Math (not news) behind the Financial Markets
Successful traders have always relied on the accuracy and timeliness of mathematical analysis over biased and delayed news.
Investment firms deploy quantitative analysts who deploy sophisticated mathematical models to predict price direction.
Fibonacci sequence have been used to enter and exit trades profitably.
Mathematical equations involving averages, means, standard deviations etc. are constantly used to predict price and make repeatable profits.
How do you earn in financial Markets
An investor earns by trading (buying and selling) of financial assets in the financial markets.
There are many assets/instruments to choose from and trade with.
An investor needs to get well acquainted with the methods of analyzing the markets to be able to trade profitably.
Obtaining funds to trade (finding clients)
Prove that you (or someone you know) can generate returns consistently
Showcase your performance
Reach out to clients through different channels like LinkedIn, Facebook etc. or through personal network
Help prospective clients test the fund management services
Allow them to consider and start investing
Business processes for scaling
An Automated Trading system generating consistent profit. An intelligent system that can self-learn and self-evolve.
Automating onboarding new clients, Tracking payments, client management
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