MBA Trading - Financial Markets
- February 2025 | October 2025
- English
- 14300
- Initial or continuous training
Program description
The aim is to provide students with in-depth knowledge of international stock market and financial techniques. The 12-month course provides students with genuine professional training, using a trading room equipped with PRO REAL TIME FX workstations, one of the best financial platforms for technical analysis to be found in the trading rooms of the biggest banks in Paris and London. It covers foreign exchange, interest rates, equities/indices, commodities trading, oil, traditional and structured derivatives, credit and weather derivatives, quantitative and alternative management (hedge funds) and actuarial issues.
The trading room is also equipped with the BLOOMBERG Terminal, a global benchmark of excellence in the world of financial and commodity markets. This Master of Business Administration (MBA) provides the skills needed to work in all media and on all types of market. Its recruitment method, which is highly adapted to this unique professional environment, its style, the strength of its alumni network (2,390 in 2024) now present throughout the world, and its original teaching method (trading situation, risk management, test marathon) make it a benchmark for many traders, salespeople and brokers.
Why do the MBA in Trading and Market Finance?
Doing this Master of Business Administration (MBA) with ESLSCA means benefiting from the best professional lecturers to acquire the essential skills needed in a trading room. It is also offered on a sandwich course basis.
An MBA specialising in Trading carried out on a trading floor
ESLSCA provides candidates with a trading room equipped with professional workstations and an international reference terminal. This is the sine qua non for acquiring the skills needed to work on all types of markets around the world. This MBA is a benchmark in the professional world. What's more, it is backed up by an extensive alumni network. The Business School Paris uses an original teaching method to deliver this course, with trading situations, risk management and test marathons.
The best MBA in Trading and Market Finance
This MBA from ESLSCA is a course of excellence in which financial market professionals provide candidates with expert knowledge of international stock market and financial techniques, such as:
- Learning to trade, manage risk and monitor markets;
- Managing foreign exchange, interest rate and commodity trading issues, etc.
- Dealing with compliance and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) mechanisms;
- Be familiar with Big Data, R, Python and VBA.
Managers who complete this MBA acquire a culture of socially responsible enterprise, which is a major asset.
Doing the MBA in Trading and Market Finance with ESLSCA will give you the know-how and people skills you need to work in this unique sector.
Target skills
- Acquire a complete knowledge of the fundamentals
- Understand, anticipate and manage complex situations
- Obtain specialist professional qualifications and certifications
Programme of the MBA Trading and Market Finance 2024/2025 - 560h
Teaching methods:
Face-to-face: 90% | Online: 10%
Lectures: 65% | Tutorials: 35%
- Financial analysis of equities and ESG criteria
- Management of fixed income positions
- Physical commodities
- Economic and financial intelligence
- Economic trends
- Foreign exchange markets and derivatives
- Commodities: paper
- Seminar - Fundamental analysis and artificial intelligence
- Technical analysis 1
- Technical analysis 2 (pro real time)
- Fintechs and Big Data
- Financial modelling and languages
- Masterclass - Trading psychology
- Credit derivatives and securitisation
- Classic and exotic derivatives - Part 1
- Quantitative management
- Fundamental actuarial mathematics
- Structured products, equities, equity derivatives
- Alternative investment
- In-depth bond markets
- Sustainable and green finance
- Climate and exotic derivatives
- Trading, equities and repurchase agreements
- Mergers & acquisitions and private equity
- Cloud Computing (AWS)
- Ecosystème big data
- Calcul parallèle
- Capstone project
- Visits/conferences
- Soft Skills
- Research methodology
- Oral presentation
4-month work placement (88 days in a company) for initial training
Skills
- Produce macroeconomic and geopolitical impact analyzes on financial markets
- Perform technical analysis of financial products and benchmarks
- Design and set up complex financial products
- Carry out transactions on the financial markets
- Control the compliance of financial market transactions
Academic projects
- Marathon exams: 1 exam/subject over 7 days - preparation, pressure, performance, endurance
- AMF certification (optional)
Enrolment is open all year round and closes once the number of students has been reached (places are limited per class).
Application deadline: 2 October 2024. After these dates, please contact the Admissions Department directly.
Admission procedure
Pre-selection of the file including :
- CV
- Application questionnaire
- Skills assessment interview
Prerequisites
- At least 4 years' higher education (240 ECTS) from a business school or university in the field of finance, economics and management, business law, econometrics or statistics
- Proficiency in English
- An interest in figures, calculations and data in general
- Ability to analyse and summarise, and a good knowledge of economics, monetary policy and finance
- Excellent interpersonal skills, strong negotiating skills and adaptability
Diploma Recognition
Establishment diploma preparing for the professional qualification of "Expert in financial markets and instruments", a professional qualification registered with the RNCP on 19/07/2024 under number 39400 for a period of 5 years, code NSF 313, awarded by the "Ecole supérieure libre des sciences commerciales appliquées", a qualification accessible via the VAE system.
Career perspectives
The MBA Trading - Market Finance offers several possible opportunities:
- Cash, spot, derivatives trading on financial markets and commodities
- Sales cash, spot, derivatives on financial markets and commodities
- Cash, spot, derivatives broker on financial markets and commodities
- Company or bank treasurer
- Equities / bonds / money manager
- Alternative Manager
- Asset Liabililities Manager (ALM)
- Fundamental and / or Technical Financial Analyst
- Risk Manager / Compliance / Regulation
- Quant & Structurer
- Shipping
- Advanced Middle Office / Valuator
The 2,390 alumni (since the class of 1989) are present in London, New York, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Brussels, Luxembourg, Geneva, Lausanne, Montreal, Monaco, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Madrid, Montreal, Oslo, Tel Aviv, Jeddah, Bahrain and Dubai.
Assessment procedures
The study year is divided into two semesters, with the last week reserved for the exam marathon.
Students are graded according to the ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System) standard promoted by the European Union. The assessment system complies with the 2023-2024 internal study regulations; the average grade for a course or module is used to assess the effort made by each student and to help them decide on their academic and professional choices.
It includes elements of continuous assessment, the evaluation of various assignments and the grade obtained during the semester assessments.
Under the direction of the School Director, the school jury meets once a year to decide on the case of each student (passing, repeating, reorientation).
Students validate their year with 60 ECTS (i.e. 30 ECTS per semester) and an average of 10/20 per module, bearing in mind that 5 is an eliminatory mark for a course.
In addition, all the educational requirements must be met:
- 4-month compulsory work placement
- Research dissertation
- Skills passport
- Personal development (participation in the life of the school)
Any student who fails to obtain an average of 10/20 in a module will be invited to the make-up session to retake the examinations set by the passing jury.
A second School Jury will take place after the make-up session to decide on the case of each student: conditional admission for 2-year sandwich students, repeating a year, reorientation, exclusion, gap year.
Gateways, equivalences and further study
Bridges and equivalences
There are no gateways or equivalences: enrolment in the programme requires you to take all the modules.
Continuing your studies
It is entirely possible to continue your studies after the MBA Trading and Market Finance, provided you have the necessary prerequisites, such as preparing to enrol for a thesis or studying for another specialist MBA.
Teaching method
- The courses are always seen from a Front, Middle and Back Office point of view.
- The MBA Trading - Market Finance has been designed from a very operational perspective in order to learn to trade, manage risks, and monitor market operations. It encompasses different points of view in order to obtain the most comprehensive view possible (traders, sales, brokers, fund managers, quants, structurers, asset-liability managers and financial risk managers of the company).
- All the courses are particularly interactive and are seen as case studies from the Dealing Room.
Among the key events
- Study trip - London, Frankfurt, New York, Geneva
- Gala evening at the Ecole Militaire for current and former students
- ESLSCA x AFATE (Association Française des Analystes Techniques, member of the IFTA International Federation of Technical Analysts) annual conference in New York
- Conferences on various themes - "Women in Finance", "Sustainable Finance and Green Finance", etc.
- Pre-entry conference for all incoming students
What our students think
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