Welcome to the YEAR 1 & Year 2 FTP Undergraduate Finance Trading Programme (UG FTP) 2025/26!
Everything begins in the week starting October 13th October 2025 so please Self-enrol for the UG FTP on QMPLUS using this link!
Dear All,
Welcome to the Undergraduate Finance Trading Programme (UG FTP) and your Year 1 and 2 registration information. You can now register for your Undergrad FTP classes.
Please use this link to self-enrol: https://qmplus.qmul.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=28405
The access code is: QM2025
Once you have enrolled you will be able to book your chosen class using the link to the QMplus Scheduler below which is also on the FTP homepage under the Module descriptions. You will see class descriptions and a small number of documents already visible on the page for Module 1 (year 1) and Module 6 (Year 2), More schedulers will be added over the next few days and weeks.
Please book for Year 1 classes here: https://qmplus.qmul.ac.uk/mod/scheduler/view.php?id=3212904
Please book for Year 2 classes here: https://qmplus.qmul.ac.uk/mod/scheduler/view.php?id=3212931
Year 1 and 2 UGFTP classes are taught in Semester 1 and Year 3 classes are taught in Semester 2.
Undergraduate FTP
The objective of the Programme is to provide you with a wide-ranging introduction to financial markets and to build a solid understanding of the structure, trading instruments, economic statistics, working practices and strategies of various market participants. The programme is designed to give you useful sources of information and to help you to interpret that information. While building up your knowledge we also look at how industry professionals interpret financial data in their everyday working lives. The field of finance is changing constantly with the advent of new products, technologies and working practices every year so it is important that you are well-informed and able to understand these advances, particularly as this will support your academic studies.
Practical Learning Objectives
The UG FTP also gives you the practical knowledge and understanding of financial markets. In particular, it seeks to do the following:
1. Introduce trading concepts and develop skills in sourcing and gathering financial information
2. To promote understanding of the structure of the financial markets from a trading perspective along with the participants, institutions, and their roles.
3. To explain the way in which primary participants like prop traders, asset managers and risk managers interact with financial information and data,
4. To introduce working practices in the financial markets linked to trading and asset management
The syllabus for each Module has been designed to lead you through a structured programme that enhances knowledge at each stage based on the previous learnt experiences. The objective is that you emerge from the course with a practical understanding of financial markets along with market intelligence and analytical skills that can be used to enhance your academic studies.
Programme Structure
The objective of the programme is to provide you with knowledge and practical user-experience of financial informational sources, working practices and technology and to explain how the financial markets work.
Each student should attend ONE class per module and there are five modules per Year Group per academic year. The programme is taught annually which enables all Year Groups to have classes. Students from each Year Group progress through the Programme and achieve module completion and end-of-year digital awards for Year 1, 2, and 3 when completed. Then the overall final UGFTP Certified award is given to those students who have completed all three Year Group Modules at the end of Year 3.
UNDERGRADUATE FTP COURSE MODULES
Year 1
Module 1 Economic Cycles and Market Interrelatedness
Module 2 Market Technical Analysis
Module 3 The Business of Trading
Module 4 Trading Cash Equities and Stock Indices
Module 5 Trading Bonds, FX and Money Markets
Year 2
Module 6 Market Data and Economic Statistics
Module 7 Trading Derivatives: Futures, ETFs and CFDs
Module 8 Trading Options
Module 9 Trading Commodities: Energy and Metals
Module 10 Capital and Risk Management
Learning Outcomes
The overall learning objective is to build your knowledge from a beginner level to an intermediate level over the three-year period so that you become familiar with the structure of financial markets, the range of market participants, trading assets, informational sources and trading concepts.
The objective is that you emerge from the programme with a practical understanding of global financial markets along with trading and informational skills that can be used in the traded markets.
The UG FTP Year 1 and 2 QUIZ
There will be a single quiz at the conclusion of each Year Group programme on QM Plus to your check understanding, the pass mark for the quiz is 60%.
FTP Certification
The FTP is a jointly certified optional course from TTC Institute and SEF that does not form part of the accreditation for your degree. However, it is recognized as a skills-based vocational qualification. The programme is structured into three year groups (1–3), upon successful completion of each year group, your achievement will be officially recorded on your HEAR transcript. After completing the entire 3-Year programme, you will be awarded a final Undergraduate FTP Certificate which is separate to your HEAR transcript.
We look forward to seeing you in class and beginning the FTP programme!
If you have questions please email: amanda.kemp@qmul.ac.uk
Best regards,
Dr David Norman
Programme Director - FTP
