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Updated Sep 30, 2019
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- Current Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
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.
Cons
Early Starts! But to be expected from the nature of the business you'e getting in to. They do phase in the early starts which is helpful. I generally can't think of any more other than having to get out of bed a little earlier but you'll quickly get used to this! :)
Continue reading - Former Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Sound teaching of technical indicators
Cons
unsound knowledge of fundamentals and psychology of trading
Continue reading - Former Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Trading High size and great desk for a starting prop trader
Cons
Bad risk manager, terrible training
Continue reading - Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Great team environment and friends
Cons
No progression to further career
Continue reading - Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Learn fundamentals of day trading
Cons
Instability of day trading as a main source of income. Management makes mone
Continue reading - Former Employee★★★★★
ignore the fake reviews below - this is a scam selling graduates dreams
RecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
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.
Cons
in all honesty I wouldn't pay for any trading "job", but if you are going to do any I would recommend Amplify. At least they are honest about your chances of securing a job and desk fees etc. Also their training is far better than LDN-Capital
Continue reading - Current Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
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
Cons
- There are some minor software issues given a switch to a new execution platform and charting software. This is a short term issue that is currently being resolved and one that will hopefully prove to be beneficial in the long term (the current charting/ execution platform is hugely cost effective).
- Current Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
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.
Cons
not enough to just be good at your job -----------
Thank you for taking your time to provide your feedback. It is always great to hear from our traders and we are glad that you are enjoying working with us. At LDN Capital we pride ourselves on creating a comfortable and productive working environment. Once again, thank you for sharing your views.- HR Team Member
- Former Employee★★★★★
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.
Cons
Can be stressful, competitive environment around lots of experience people.
LDN Capital Response
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Thank you for taking your time to provide your feedback. What great feedback to hear from a former employee! We are glad to find that your time at LDN Capital was a that of a positive experience. Once again, thank you for sharing your views.- HR Team Member
- Former Employee★★★★★
An experience on how to part with £4,800 and 3 months of your life
RecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
You will meet like minded individuals who are interested in becoming traders
Cons
Forget what they tell you in the interview for the trainee trader career program as you will be sold a dream about training and mentoring so you have the best chance of becoming a successful trader. Unfortunately the experience received does not meet this expectation. The “intensive three month career program” is a laughable. Firstly, the course material is poor and doesn't meet the standard of an off the shelf introduction to trading book. Your first two weeks of the course are taken up by basic PowerPoint slides; and the second week is simply a repeat. Unfortunately, you won’t be shown any real life examples of trades that have been made. They do claim on their website: Our professional mentors will guide you through the trading process step-by-step from devising trading strategies to real-time trading, as well as adjusting any immediate trading decisions to reach our profit target and prepare you to become a professional trader. Reality: Apart from the guy who teaches the PowerPoint there were no “mentors”. They don’t guide you through the process to devise trading strategies and won’t really speak to you about your strategies until the last two weeks of the assessment period when you have some one-on-one meetings. When help was asked for, you would get about a minute or two of their time and brushed off quite quickly with responses like: Trading can’t be taught as it’s a personal thing and only you can figure this out. So, from week two onwards you will be left to your own devices on the simulators to pretty much figure things out on your own and hopefully come up with a strategy that works. The usual day was: turn up, watch Youtube to get some ideas on developing a strategy, watch the market, place some trades on the simulator, hope that they work out. Oh and the IT they provide was terrible, everyone had to share a computer with another person to gain access to a charting package. The alternative was to use yahoo finance charts... The last 4 weeks were the “assessment period” which was a classic –being left alone on the simulators, writing your trades down on a sheet (none of the trades you made could be verified) and some individuals in the class scrubbing their bad trades and just listing the successful ones – hilarious! So all in all the basic formula is 15-20 students are taken every 3 months, each pay their £4800 fee for the remote possibility to get a job offer at the end of the "course" period. Rinse and repeat. From my experience I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone.
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Dear Reviewer, Thank you for taking your time to review LDN Capital. We regret to hear that you felt unsupported during your time with us. We pride ourselves on creating an environment in which our Trainee Traders feel that they mentored and guided towards successful completion of the Career Programme. The LDN Capital Career Programme is a well structured and thorough course designed by former traders with several years' experience live trading. We provide each participant with the requisite resources and software to partake and hopefully complete the course successfully. Trading strategies and risk management are at the heart of the course curriculum and we discredit the statements made that participants are left to their own devices and/or not mentored. Trading strategies are taught with the aim that Trainee Traders will build from them and create their own successful strategies that they can take forward in their careers, so yes, in that sense, trading strategies are a personal thing. However, the teaching and mentoring at LDN Capital ensures that Trainee Traders can take what they are taught to develop their individual style of trading. Many of our professional traders have come to our live trading floor via the LDN Capital Career Programme. Now successfully trading, they are a testament to the course and how, upon successful completion, Trainee Traders can become profitable. Trainee Traders are made aware from the out-set that trading may not be for everyone, which is why the LDN Capital Career Programme allows us as a firm to ensure we take on the right people to back with our funds. It is likely that you witnessed a traders meeting consisting of selected traders. Based off of one trader meeting, your statement cannot be verified, as not all traders attend every meeting. Additionally, you will not have accounted for the LDN Capital employees working in other departments aside from live trading and management. Access to the live trading floor can be limited for Trainee Traders as we have to ensure that our professional traders are not impacted when making their own trades. We understand that you feel frustrated that this opportunity was not extended to you in the manner in which you had imagined. If you would like to file a formal complaint with LDN Capital, please do so by emailing the HR Team at hr@ldn-capital.co.uk. Kind Regards- HR Team Member
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