Trader or Risk Manager is not a job – it is a way of thinking and looking at the world around you from opportunistic standpoint. Every trader has to be a talented risk-manager and vica versa. It takes a certain breed to succeed in both fields. It is not just about generating profit but often about being resilient, focused and coolheaded. You have to be analytical, disciplined, able to assess risk and able to take quick and firm decisions under pressure with virtually no room for error. But how do you spot this talent?



This informality is not exclusive to the dress code but springs into the DIALOGUE with a presenter and other delegates... This is miles away from a standard boring set of lectures thrust onto the audience by a new-made professor, who reads "mathematical justification of economic theory" stuck in his own notes...

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The key distinctive feature of this course is not the theory, since futures, swaps, and options are well described in specialised publications, and not even in case studies... it is exactly the style of presentation and the aura of the course... Let's start with the latter... It is informal... No need to worry about wearing a tie and thinking about wrinkles on your suit... This informality is not exclusive to the dress code but springs into the DIALOGUE with a presenter and other delegates... This is miles away from a standard boring set of lectures thrust onto the audience by a new-made professor, who reads "mathematical justification of economic theory" stuck in his own notes...

To be honest at some of events and presentations looking at those topics which I visited there was the following logic: "fighting hunger before lunch, and resisting sleep after"... This course on the contrary had an exclusively working climate, which enables every delegate to come up with specific relevant questions and have them answered through the DIALOGUE with Konstantin and other delegates... It seems that this DIALOGUE is the key component of the lecturer's style of presentation... To use a metaphor you are not getting a digested answer to your question put in your mouth but instead get involved in actually generating it! Theory is also being presented along the same lines using case studies and resorting to teamwork thus enabling you to get to the essence of things ON YOUR OWN and not just read through the scribbles in your notes... In other words – INTERESTING! In this way the presenter succeeds in the key aspect - awakening/strengthening the interest of a delegate to the topic in such a way that it wouldn't fade away neither upon awarding a certificate nor in the turmoil of the coming Monday...
Aleksey Shvedov, REVAL-OIL