Bridging Course 101
General Knowledge
Summary and Outlines
The bridging course is a basic and introductory course on retail financial markets designed for those who are new to the financial markets. The objective of the course is to help students gain general knowledge on what it takes to trade or invest in the retail financial markets using paper money (demo accounts) to access various markets via electronic trading platforms for buying and selling equities, currencies, stocks, bonds, commodities and indexes such as Dow Jones, S&P 500 etc, from your desktop, laptop and mobile handsets.
Of importance is that the course will introduced students to how secular traders perpetuates unrighteousness such as greed, fear, panic and fraud in the market. As shown in the figure below, in 2006, trading charts indeed showed that market has reached its peak even in alignment and accordance with God's law in Leviticus 25:3-4, when traders were supposed to stop all new investments.
Since many traders are not aware of God’s principles, many people were lured by the earthly brokers/investors to think that the economy will continue to grow into the future. This is perfectly alright when the investment is done at the early stages of a 7- year Sabbath cycle. However, when it is done at the late stages (the 6th year) of the Sabbath cycle, it is wrong to start new investment. In Leviticus Chapter 26, the Bible shows that God can cause confusion on the doings and ways of the unrighteous who this regards His covenants.
Having basic knowledge on how market works using electronic software,and how earthly traders delibrately ignore warnings from the Bible can help people avoid financial ruins. The Scriptures tell us that we should not be ignorant of the devices of the wicked ones ( 2 Corinthians 2:11). Though our focus, method and objective is on Jesus Christ, we still need to have information about the devil's tactics and strategies in order not to fall into his deceptive tactics in luring people into unrighteous markets. The more we know, the greater our advantage on the battlefield.
Who should enrolled into this course?
Anyone without prior knowledge of how the retail financial markets works. Most Christians are less equipped with the right knowledge on how investments are done electronically using carnal knowledge. Also many Christians fear and viewed the global markets as no go areas. Taking the course at your own pace will help you to remove doubts and myths surrounding the retail financial markets.
It will sharpen your knowledge on how to righteously use the same technology at the hands of secular trade to implement God's will such as.
- Helping multitudes of people who are financially distressed,
- Introducing and implementing God’s plans into the financial markets,
- Transferring wealth into God’s kingdom,
- Developing godly businesses plans for other people in interested in this area,
- Running a ministry dedicated to righteous investments practices,
- Evangelising and seeing salvation come to people involved in the financial markets,
- Training others to master electronic trading for God’s purposes,
Please note that it is important to take this course if you have never traded financial markets in the past using Meta Trader 4 Software.
The course is a prerequisite for taking course modules 3 and 4.
Outlines
Unit 1 Market size and liquidity
Unit 2 Market participants
2.1 Banks
2.2 Commercial companies
2.3 Central banks
2.4 Investment management firms
2.5 Hedge funds
2.6 Retail forex brokers
2.7 Retail Traders
Unit 3 Trading characteristics
Unit 4 Factors affecting currency trading
4.1 Economic factors
4.2 Political conditions
4.3 Market psychology
Unit 5 Introduction to Algorithmic trading in financial markets
5.1 Mastering Meta Trader 4 Software
5.2 Technical Analysis with Meta Trade 4 Software
Unit 6 Financial instruments
Unit 7 Speculation
Unit 8 Regulatory frame work
