PROFESSIONAL TRADER PROGRAMME (FX) A COMPLETE FOREX PROGRAMME
ABOUT THE FIRM Alphachain Capital is a proprietary trading firm founded with a vision of combining strategy, innovation and technology to succeed in today’s global markets.
Alphachain Capital focuses on the Cryptocurrency and Foreign Exchange markets. Trades are placed in various domestic and international markets, both established and esoteric. Our team constantly seek new opportunities, analyses their risks and rewards, creates strategies and tools to capitalise on them. We have an open culture and encourage the flow of knowledge and ideas between all areas of the firm. New hires work both independently and with others to develop ideas and market analysis, integrating them into our company ethos, trading strategies and systems. Our firm is a meritocracy and progress in both responsibility and compensation is rapid for those capable of demonstrating excellence in their particular field. Alphachain does not depend on clients or outside investors. The strength of our firm comes from the talent of our people. Once a track record and proven ability is established, we offer a highly competitive compensation package.
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MEET SOME OF OUR TRADERS AND MENTORS Adam Haeems | Chief Executive Officer
Adam has a Master of Finance (MFin) from Cambridge University (Judge Business School) and is an experienced institutional futures trader. Adam has traded fixed income futures for Bank of America Merrill Lynch before becoming a cross-asset futures trader for a $1bn global macro hedge fund (Quality Capital Management). Adam is an experienced cryptocurrecy trader having recently managed a $20m cryptocurrency portfolio for BABB Group ltd.
Gavin Pannu | Senior Market Analyst & Trader
Gavin is an experienced prop trader, Certified Financial Technician (CFTe) and Member of the Society of Technical Analysts (IFTA). He has three years’ experience as a Senior Market Analyst at the London Academy of Trading (LAT) and 5 years’ trading experience of a self-directed fund after completing the ABE accredited Level 5 Diploma in Applied Financial Trading. Gavin is an experienced trading mentor and lecturer having taught over 1000 traders and has experience creating leading training programmes.
Paul Bentley | Coach & Mentor
Paul is a successful prop trader with many years’ experience as a Private Fund Manager for HNWI’s. He has a wealth of experience delivering live trading days and financial market education to those wishing to start a career in the city or becoming a lifestyle trader.
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PROGRAMME OVERVIEW The Professional Trader programme is an immersive and structured 12-month programme which gives a unique opportunity for individuals to develop indepth knowledge and experience in a proprietary trading firm, before going on to become a professional prop trader for the firm.
The course content provides a strong educational base for new traders while gaining practical experience trading on an active trading floor under the supervision of senior traders. Students who are offered a position on the programme will be offered guaranteed starting capital of $12,500 to trade as a Professional Trader with a profit share package. On-going mentoring is provided after the course to ensure that you are constantly developing as a prop trader while managing our capital. This gives an opportunity for ambitious and motivated students to begin a successful career as a prop trader with Alphachain Capital. New hires work closely with senior traders to learn how to make exceptional trading decisions, often in a fast-paced environment. Traders explore new opportunities, analyse their risks and rewards and collaborate with each other to form trading strategies. We focus on mentorship of new hires, enabling them to rapidly progress and gain trading responsibilities. We’re looking for fast learners and driven individuals to join our team as Professional Traders. WWW.ALPHACHAIN.ACADEMY/
CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS Ability to learn quickly Good quantitative skills Comfort in fast-paced environment Attention to detail with excellent organisational skills Strong written and verbal communication skills
WHAT WE GIVE BACK Guaranteed starting capital investment of $12.5k into our new traders Actively trading capital in one month 50% profit split Guidance and mentorship both during and after the programme Potential to be trading up to $2m in capital CPD certified training
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TRAINING AND QUALIFICATIONS
The programme is designed to fast-track your trading career while obtaining a recognised CPD (Continuing Professional Development) qualification. The CPD trading qualification helps students leverage this training experience to obtain further career opportunities in the city, in recognition of your immersive theoretical and practical learning during the course.
SO, WHAT IS CPD? So, what is CPD? CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and is the term used to describe the learning activities professionals engage in to develop and enhance their abilities. It enables learning to become conscious and proactive, rather than passive and reactive. CPD combines different methodologies to learning, such as training workshops, conferences and events, e-learning programs, best practice techniques and ideas sharing, all focused for an individual to improve and have effective professional development. There are over 1000 institutes & professional bodies across the UK, a number that is forecast to increase.
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WEEK 1: THEORY & PRACTICAL LEARNING Day 1 - 2
On day one you will begin the online ‘Intensive Strategy Course’, covering our bespoke trading strategies, advanced technical analysis and risk management. You’ll learn how to identify some advanced technical patterns and how they can be used to create short and medium-term trading strategies. Furthermore, we will use examples to show how macroeconomic news releases can impact FX prices and what type of news could move markets when trading. You will also cover risk management techniques, pips and how to assess performance.
Day 3 - 5
On day three you will begin to put what you have learned into action on your demo account. The application of the prior learning and theory is the most important step. You will have to quickly learn to navigate the brokerage and trading platform. Begin to analyse markets and react to macroeconomic data. Start to formulate trading strategies using fundamental data or news, technical analysis and indicators or quantitative methods. You must maintain Alphachain Capital’s risk management rules.
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WEEK 2: STRATEGY PLANNING & TESTING During this week you will look to gain as much exposure by trading your strategies and doing back-tests to build statistical research on how well your strategy has worked in previous market conditions. This is an important period where you can learn to improve your trading and risk management techniques while learning more about your psychological approach to trading. We will carry out a trading comp assessment which will be based on how you perform as an individual as well as how you manage yourself in a team environment. Finally, you will create a trading plan and have it reviewed by our senior trader mentors.
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WEEK 3 & 4: FURTHER TESTING & ASSESSMENT PERIOD Weeks 3-4 will be for further testing a assessment. Here we will assess you on your trading performance on the demo account putting into practice everything that was taught the previous weeks. You will follow your trading plan and maintain good risk management and psychology in the markets. At the end of the final week you will have a performance appraisal with a senior trader and mentor where you will submit your statistics. You will be provided with feedback and you will then be allocated your funded trading account to begin your role as a Junior Prop Trader. You will have regular mentoring sessions every month to continually improve and develop you as a trader while managing our capital. Capital increases will be provided once set profit targets are achieved.
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AUTOMATED QUANT STRATEGY & PERFORMANCE COACHING NEW ADDITIONS TO ALL PROGRAMMES
During the programme you'll also learn how to perform automated back-testing of various trading strategies in TradingView, using the Pine Editor language. Our trading mentor's will also teach you how to visualise the entry and exits on the charts, test various risk management rules including stops, position sizes and amount at risk. Each of our strategy templates come with easily editable parameters to test a variety of different changes to the strategy without needing to know how to code! We've partnered with world renowned trading mindset coach, Ron William. Harness the latest peak performance techniques by immersing yourself into the science of changing the mind and winning mental strategies. Get high-intensity support, built on the foundations of NLP and latest peak performance techniques. Manage survival states like fear, anger and doubt that can paralyse our ability to make important decisions. WWW.ALPHACHAIN.ACADEMY/
MARKETS TRADED Traders on the Professional Trader programme gain exposure to a range of major FX markets and crosses on the trading floor. Under the guidance of your mentor you will begin to analyse various charts looking to identify patterns and trading opportunities with the goal of placing profitable trades which are aligned with the parameters set out in your bespoke trade plan.
SPOT FX EUR/USD GBP/USD AUD/USD USD/JPY NZD/USD and more‌
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PROFESSIONAL TRADER ROLE SUMMARY As a Professional Trader at Alphachain Capital you will be allocated a guaranteed $12.5k starting capital. As independent contractors our traders take home 50% of their trading profits each month. This is not an employed or salaried role.
Monthly sessions with a mentor assessing their performance and help to refine their trading. Once the initial 6% target is met, capital is quadrupled to $50k, doubling each time a 10% target is met thereafter. You can be managing a large amount of capital in a short space of time by showing consistency in your trading. All Professional Traders are targeted with 35% account growth each month The role is flexible with no set working hours required. What’s important is that our traders reach their weekly and monthly targets. We understand that some individuals perform better at certain times of the day or prefer to trade certain time-zones. We aim to foster a collaborative and empowering culture to ensure our traders are always performing at their best. Approx On-Target Earnings
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GLOBAL TRADER LOCATION: REMOTE
Trade from the comfort of your own home! Guaranteed $12.5k starting capital 4 weeks professional training from experienced traders Learn our bespoke trading strategies 12 months of on-going mentorship included CPD certification £3950 + VAT
INDEPENDENT TRADER LOCATION: IN-HOUSE & REMOTE
Spend 3 months on our trading floor refining your skills, then trade independently from the comfort of your own home! Guaranteed $12.5k starting capital 4 weeks professional training from experienced traders Learn our bespoke trading strategies 12 months of on-going mentorship included CPD certification £5150 + VAT WWW.ALPHACHAIN.ACADEMY/
ACTIVE TRADER LOCATION: IN-HOUSE
Trade on our state-of-the-art trading floor with experienced traders for the entire 12month period. Allocated trading terminal on trading floor Guaranteed $12.5k starting capital 4 weeks professional training from experienced traders Learn our bespoke trading strategies 12 months of on-going mentorship included CPD certification ÂŁ6400 + VAT
RESERVE YOUR PLACE Places can be reserved by placing a ÂŁ250.00 deposit with the remaining balance due no later than one week before the course start date.
Please note: We are able to setup a payment plan. Please email hr@alphachain.co.uk to check availability, ask any questions and secure your place on the programme.
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