LDN Capital Reviews

Pros

The chance to learn from actual traders who genuinely have decades worth of experience between them.

Work & Learn alongside like-minded individuals. (Your definitely bound to meet some interesting people on the program!)

The opportunity to go full time at the end of the program.

Great place to start if you're new to the Industry. Everything well explained and always happy to answer any questions you have.

Not teaching you to be robots/clones, they allow you to find your own style of trading and methodology and once identified, help you grown from there.

Advice to Management

Overall very impressed and pleased with the quality of the course! Can't really fault it!

Possibly more 1-2-1 Meetings. These are incredibly valuable when they take place but only really seemed to commence towards the mid-end of the program, could be useful to have them at the start to help affirm individual trainee's understanding etc..

Pros

Trading High size and great desk for a starting prop trader

Advice to Management

Step up your game

Pros

Great team environment and friends

Advice to Management

Close down

Pros

Learn fundamentals of day trading

Advice to Management

Please give back all the money you took from innocent people, who you made to believed they could make a stable income from what you taught them.

Pros

genuinely cant think of any.
They basically will accept anyone onto this course, they will make it sound tricky with some phone interview and short test when you come in but in reality everyone gets on.
what actually happens is you pay £4800 (an amount they know some graduates can just about pay) for an initial two week "intense training" - by that what I mean is some guy reading some basic powerpoint slides in front of a class. you can get all this info for yourself online for free.

Advice to Management

stop scamming graduates.

Pros

- Brilliant management who have gotten the blend between a nurturing and challenging environment spot on. There is also very much a family feel to the company with plenty of humour. These factors are incredibly important in this industry for reasons I will stipulate later on.

- With the value of the course and industry contacts a career in the markets in a different capacity is a real possibility should things not work out here. In other words the course and people here can help with plan B.

- Incredibly intensive and comprehensive course that has clearly been meticulously structured by the head of trading who has 40 odd years experience.

- Great location in the heart of the city and in the same building and floor as their clearer (Marex).

I am coming to the end of the 10 week career programme and personally couldn't be happier at this stage. Before I begin elaborating on the above points, however, I would like to point out that TRADING IS NOT FOR EVERYONE. There is a tremendous amount of dedication, resilience, emotional control, hunger for self improvement and complete and utter willingness to accept personal responsibility to achieve longevity and success in this business. Anyone harboring aspirations to get rich quick or otherwise with unrealistic expectations of trading should find a career elsewhere. No prop house or fund would be able to fulfill these fantasies. CONVERSELY if you have the above traits and hunger for the markets then, from what I can see at this stage, LDN will provide everything you need to succeed.

The theory section of the course has all bases covered. I've not seen a more definitive, single volume text on the theory of trading. The content is taught by the head of the firm who has a genuine interest in passing down his 40 years of experience to the next generation of would be traders.

There is then a 2 week experimentation phase where trainees are exposed to dozens of different products. This is good fun but also allows for getting a feel of what types of markets one would be most interested in and suited to. Trainees then choose two products to focus on.

Following which is a 5 week assessment period where trainees are given a daily target and stop loss on a simulator. This is where one gets a practical test of how well one is emotionally suited to the art of trading.

This leads me to the importance of the ethos at the firm. LDN seem to recognise that, unless you happen to Andy McNab or Patrick Bateman, successful discretionary trading is as much about emotional balance and discipline as it is analysis and research. The team is always available to support traders in their quest for this balance and chi. Again it is the traders responsibility to seek this support. No one can expect to be spoon fed.

In short it genuinely feels like this is a great place to build a successful career in the markets

Pros

The company culture is outstanding, everyone you work with is friendly and extremely helpful. Allow you trade different asset class and encourage you creat your own trading models.

Pros

Great culture, diverse workforce, competent people, fulfilling work, taking positive steps around work/life flexibility.Team work, hire the best people, career development, ability to be involved in multiple interesting trading style or department in the group, fantastic diversity program. ps4 pingpang nice office in gcm, amazing trading speed.

Pros

You will meet like minded individuals who are interested in becoming traders

Advice to Management

Your website states that as part of the course you will be situated on the state of the art trading floor with other professional traders. So you can gain first hand information on how LDN capital traders analyse and execute trades in the live financial markets. This is FALSE you are not situated on the live trading floor as part of the course, let alone sit next to one of the live traders and learn from them during the course.

You also state on glassdoor that you have 51 to 200 employees – this is also FALSE. There was a traders meeting one day in the training room and there are about 15-20 traders + 5 management.

Pros

Directors and management are accessible and work closely will all employees at LDN. There is great guidance balanced with the freedom to get on with your own work as necessary.

Advice to Management

Air con, please!