Training
Theory, practice, skills and expertise of the financial markets can be taught on all required levels on one of our many varied courses. Our specializations are mainly related to investing, trading & portfolios. Therefore we focus on market working, trading, order execution, straight through processing, financial products, valuation, pricing, trade optimization, risk management, hedging and hedging tools, as well as clearing & settlement.
Mercurious offers training for all participants of the financial markets and commodity sector, such as traders, asset, risk or portfolio managers, back-office employees, ICT personnel, legal staff, compliance-officers and regulators. Although Mercurious delivers standard training, most of our work consists of tailor-made assignments. After all, we want to provide you flexibility in our approach, in order to meet all your needs.
For more information, please send an e-mail to info@mercurious.nl
Good to know Mercurious also coaches people on a one-to-one basis. Executives and high potentials find it sometimes of huge added value to exchange thoughts with business experts. Mercurious strives for a very comfortable atmosphere where anonymity as well as confidentiality of the discussed topics are of utmost importance.
**NEW at Mercurious our special 2012 Open Enrollment program!**
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Open Enrollment
29-Mar-2012
2-day Introduction to Energy, Energy Markets & Energy Trading
This training course is an absolute must for everyone who would learn more about market fundamentals, such as production and consumption, market participants, energy products, the working of processes, bottlenecks, pricing and trading.
02-Apr-2012
3-day Trading Simulation for Non-Traders
Become a trader for three days, and find out what that means!
16-Apr-2012
3-day Excel-Based Risk Management
An Excel-based Mercurious' workshop:
Energy Risk Management
- Market Risk approaches
Practical workshop to:
- Calculate parameters;
- Build scenarios, and
- Explain risk methodologies.
14-May-2012
3-day Energy Options
An analytical & very interactive 3-day Mercurious' workshop.
02-Jul-2012
2-day Introduction to Energy, Energy Markets & Energy Trading
This training course is an absolute must for everyone who would learn more about market fundamentals, such as production and consumption, market participants, energy products, the working of processes, bottlenecks, pricing and trading.
22-Aug-2012
3-day Energy Options
An analytical & very interactive 3-day Mercurious' workshop.
12-Sep-2012
3-day Trading Simulation for Non-Traders
Become a trader for three days, and find out what that means!
17-Sep-2012
3-day Excel-Based Risk Management
An Excel-based Mercurious' workshop:
Energy Risk Management
- Market Risk approaches
Practical workshop to:
- Calculate parameters;
- Build scenarios, and
- Explain risk methodologies.
01-Oct-2012
2-day Introduction to Energy, Energy Markets & Energy Trading
This training course is an absolute must for everyone who would learn more about market fundamentals, such as production and consumption, market participants, energy products, the working of processes, bottlenecks, pricing and trading.
Training Courses
Commodity Markets - Commodities & Commodity Trading
The training course Commodities Trading is designed to provide participants with an introduction to commodity products, pricing, trading, market participants and fundamentals such as production and consumption.
Commodity Markets - Soft Commodities & Soft Commodity Trading
The training course Trading Soft Commodities is designed to provide participants with an introduction to soft commodity products, pricing, trading, market participants and fundamentals such as production and consumption. Additionally, a broad practical insight regarding risk management and trading strategies with derivatives is provided.
Energy - Carbon Trading
This Carbon Trading course is designed to provide participants how the growing international, regional and domestic carbon constraints (EU Emissions Trading System; Chicago Climate Exchange) are generating regulated mandatory and voluntary markets.
Energy - Energy Trading & Risk Management
This extensive 3-day training course is designed to provide participants how energy risk management is performed in the hybrid world of physical energy products and the financial energy derivatives products.
Energy - Energy Value Chain
This course is specifically suitable for people within utilities, energy companies, supervisory bodies and governmental entities, but also for people within financial institutions, such as capital market exchanges, banks, pension funds and insurance companies, who operate in the field of commodities.
Energy - Freight Derivatives
This training course is designed to expand delegates' knowledge of risk management with respect to freight trading.
Energy - Gas Trading
The Gas Trading course is designed to provide participants with an introduction to market participants, gas products, pricing, trading, storage, cross-border trading, LNG and fundamentals such as production & consumption.
Energy - Introduction to Energy, Energy Markets & Energy Trading
This 2-day training course is designed to introduce delegates to energy, energy products, energy markets and their developments and constraints. The programme is designed to provide participants an introduction to market fundamentals, such as production and consumption, market participants, energy products, the working of processes, bottlenecks, pricing & trading.
Energy - Oil Trading
The Oil Trading course is designed to provide participants with an introduction to oil products, oil trading, market participants and fundamentals such as pricing.
Energy - Power Options
This course forms an outstanding basis for those whom are involved with (or want to become involved with) power options. You will be provided a clear insight in the complexity of power options and their pricing mechanisms.
Energy - Power Trading
This course forms an outstanding basis for those of you that are fairly new to trading and risk management with respect to the power market. You will be provided a clear insight in the complexity of the power market.
Energy - Trading Energy Derivatives
This course is not only about 'who', 'what'and 'where', but also about 'why' and 'how'. Therefore this course does not only incorporate the transfer fo knowledge but focuses also on skills and practical implication. This program covers 3 full days and can, of course, be tailored to your specific requirements.
Energy - Weather Derivatives
The Weather Derivatives course is designed to provide participants with an introduction to weather market fundamentals, products, trading & pricing. Additionally, a broad practical insight regarding risk management and trading strategies with weather derivatives is provided.
Financial Markets - Asset Management
The Asset Management course is designed to provide participants with an introduction to financial markets, financial products, pricing, trading, market participants and fundamentals.
Financial Markets - Clearing & Settlement
The course is specifically designed to expand delegates' knowledge of clearing, settlement, trading platforms, cleared products, borrowing, lending, margin requirements, participants, processes in front mid and back office and clearing risks involved.
Financial Markets - Financial Surveillance & Anti-Money Laundering
This Financial Surveillance training course is designed to provide participants insight in the incidents and behavior behind the recent legislative and supervisory developments. Financial Surveillance is an emerging area of expertise, evolving from detection to more predictive monitoring.
Financial Markets - HRM in Trading Environment
This 1 day training is specifically designed for Human Resource Managers. It gives insight in the world of trading and focuses on job requirements, assessments, contracts, salary and bonus structures.
Financial Markets - Introduction to Financial Markets
This 2-day training course is designed to introduce delegates to expand delegates' knowledge of financial markets, processes, financial participants, financial instruments (products), market working, trading, pricing, risk and risk management.
Financial Markets - Master Agreements
The Mater Agreement course is designed to provide participants knowledge and skills with respect to legal documents, purchase and sale agreements, master agreements, CSAs, credit lines, and insolvency.
Financial Markets - MiFID
You will get a clear insight in the results of MiFID, such as best (price) execution and know your customer/client principle.
Financial Markets - Risk Management - Market Risk
The training sessions have a strong interactive character whereby the involvement of participants is of utmost importance. A clear overall picture of the working of financial markets, products, relevant developments, risks and other relevant issues is provided during the training sessions by means of questions, theory, calculations and theses.
Financial Markets - Technical Analysis
The Technical Analysis course is designed to provide participants with an introduction to chart reading, price patterns, statistical analysis and indicators, as well as trading systems and money management.
Financial Markets - Treasury Management
This course is extremly practical and includes all relevant components with respect to treasury management. Participants have to hedge interest rate risk and mitigate currency rate exposure.
Pension Funds - Pension Funds & Financial Markets
The credit crisis has shown its severe impact on financial markets; and, amongst others, pension funds were hit hard. This has lead to a demand for know how and skills with pension fund managers and executives, asset/fiduciary managers, policy makers and regulators. This course will touch base on the most relevant topics.
Pension Funds - Portfolio Management, Risk Management & Derivatives
Mercurious trains the executive board, management, staff employees and remaining staff with the aim to reinforce the knowledge basis, as well as skills concerning portfolio management, risk management & derivatives.
Products - Exotics & Structured Products
This training course is designed to expand delegates' knowledge of exotic options and the design, structure and use of structured products.
Products - Futures & Futures Trading (advanced level)
This training course is designed to expand delegates' knowledge of forward markets, futures & forward contracts and the design, structure and use of these instruments.
Products - Futures & Futures Trading (introduction level)
The training course will equip delegates with a working knowledge of how to price & trade futures. To apply these instruments in the light of risk management (hedging) as well as with the aim to speculate or arbitrage.
Products - Options Basic
The training course will provide delegates in-depth knowledge and skills with respect to options, their features and applications. They learn to understand the motivation of market participants to enter options positions (long and short) for purpose of hedging, arbitrage or speculation. Delegates will get a real feel for options contracts by following their proceeds using real world examples.
Products - Options Greeks & Risk Management
The training course will provide delegates in-depth knowledge and skills with respect to the risks involved with option positions. They learn to understand the risk parameters involved with option positions. Delegates will get a real feel for the effects of options contracts by following their proceeds using real world examples.
Products - Options Trading Strategies
The training course will provide delegates knowledge and skills with respect to combinations of options, their features and applications. Delegates will get a real feel for the effects of options contracts by following their proceeds using real world examples.
Products - Options Volatility & Valuation
This training course is designed to introduce delegates with the valuation of options in general and the factor volatility inparticular.
Products - Swaps & Swap Trading (advanced level)
This training course is designed to introduce delegates with in-depth knowledge and skills with respect to swaps, swaps trading and pricing.
Products - Swaps & Swap Trading (introduction level)
This training course is designed to introduce delegates with the basics of swaps and swaps trading.
Trading - Algo Trading
This course provides you insight in the advanced trading techniques and the future way of trading.
Trading - Hedge Fund Strategies
The whole spectrum of approaches to trading is covered in this extensive course, such as arbitrage and speculation. This course is designed to provide insights in how you can optimize your trading strategies & techniques.
Trading - High Frequency Trading
This course provides you insight in the advanced trading techniques and the future way of trading.
Trading - Terminology - Trading & Risk Management
This course forms an outstanding basis for those of you who are either new to trading and the trading environment, as well as for those who are interested in completing the dealing room puzzle. Exchange of thoughts and lining up ideas becomes automatically more easy when people speak the same language.
Trading - Trading for Non-Traders
This course will help you gatehering insight in the meaning of specific words, terms and slang. At work it is rather helpful to know what it is about, especially when you support the trading environment in a certain way, or if you are professionally related to this scene in any sense.
Trading - Trading Strategies & Techniques
The whole spectrum of approaches to trading is covered in this extensive course. This course is designed to provide insights in how you can optimize your trading strategies & techniques.
Trading - Volatility & Dispersion Trading
How to profit of volatility developments? This 1-day course is designed to introduce delegates with the valuation of options in general and the factor volatility in particular.