Level 5 Advanced Diploma in Financial Trading

The only Ofqual-regulated Advanced Diploma in professional futures trading in the UK. In-person or online. ACG headquarters, City of London. Two upcoming dates — Monday 10th August and Monday 21st September. Limited places available.

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Trading is easy to start. Hard to master.

The Level 5 Advanced

Trading is easy to start. Hard to master. The Level 5 Advanced Diploma in Financial Trading is where professionals are made.

Diploma in Financial Trading is where professionals are made.

The best traders didn't get there by accident. They had structure, credentials, and real market experience behind them. This is where you build all three. Divento Academy is the education arm of Alpha Capital Group one of the UK's leading proprietary trading firms.

What This Is

Built for traders who are
ready to turn professional.

This is not an introductory course. The Level 5 Advanced Diploma in Financial Trading is intensive, practitioner-led, and portfolio-based. Designed for traders who already have a foundation and want the credentials, the structure, and the pathway that self-taught trading cannot give them.
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Six weeks on a live trading floor at Alpha Capital Group's City of London headquarters. Not a classroom. Not a conference room. A fully immersive trading academy.
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Created by traders, for traders — Divento Financials developed the Level 5 Advanced Diploma in Financial Trading from the ground up, and our practitioners are still active in the markets every single day. It is the first and only Ofqual-regulated Advanced Diploma in professional futures trading in the UK.

Upcoming dates: Monday 10th August and Monday 21st September.
Learn From Pros

Learn from the people
shaping the markets.

Each week, industry professionals come in to speak: active traders, brokers and market specialists from across the industry. This is access you won't find in a classroom.

Delivered by industry practitioners with 77 years of combined live market experience

Hours: 8:30am–3:30pm BST, Monday to Friday.

Real Trading Floor

Six Weeks On A
Live Trading Floor

Morning sessions

Structured content delivery covering markets, methodology, fundamentals, technical analysis and risk management.

Afternoon sessions

Live simulator trading using tier-1 professional trading software with real-time data.

Global Macro Data Events

Global macro data events, traded in real time, with post-trade analysis.

Weekly guest speakers

Guest speakers from across the industry, including active traders, brokers and market specialists.

Assessment

100% portfolio-based assessment, no exams.

What You Earn
Course fee:£3,999
Payment plans available

A Trading Qualification with
Real Industry Recognition

VTCT Level 5 Diploma in Financial Trading, Ofqual regulated.

A proven pathway to positive employment outcomes within the financial services sector. Previous graduates are now working as futures and options traders, FX brokers, risk managers and more.

CISI associate membership upon completion

Equivalent to a foundation degree, recognised internationally via the European Qualifications Framework. (EQF)

Portfolio evidence of real trading decisions

Direct pathway into a trading account at Alpha Prime for the right candidates.

Six weeks | In-person or online | Monday to Friday | 8:30am–3:30pm BST | Monday 10th August and Monday 21st September

Meet James Sullivan — Founder, Divento Financials

James Sullivan began his trading career in the late 1990s and has spent nearly three decades actively trading and running successful groups of traders through leading City clearing houses.

In 2008 he founded Divento Financials, where he has hired, trained, mentored and managed independent professional traders. James brings live macro market analysis to the trading floor daily, giving students a real-time view of what the markets are doing and why. James doesn't just teach the markets — he trades them. Every day.