International Trading Institute

Master's in Trading Program - Online

Learn from market veterans. Trade with professional conviction. Graduate with a fully-accredited Master’s designed for real-world trading.

The Master’s in Trading at the International Trading Institute (ITI) is a part-time, fully online, U.S. accredited program created for those who want to trade at a professional level—not just learn theory.

Designed and taught by experienced market practitioners and academic faculty, the program bridges the gap between traditional finance education and the realities of modern financial markets. You’ll develop the technical skill, risk discipline, and psychological resilience required to trade independently or pursue professional roles in institutional environments.

Graduates leave not only with a recognized Master’s degree, but with the confidence, structure, and decision-making framework needed to manage real capital in complex, fast-moving markets.

Why Choose ITI’s Master’s Program

Master a Professional-Grade Curriculum

This is not a repackaged finance degree or a short-term trading course.

You’ll study a rigorous, practitioner-designed curriculum built around how professional traders actually think, analyze, and manage risk across asset classes.

You will learn to:

• Interpret market structure and price behavior using professional analytical frameworks
• Understand macro and micro fundamentals and how they drive market regimes
• Apply advanced risk management techniques used by professional desks
• Build repeatable, rules-based trading approaches rather than ad-hoc strategies

Dual-Faculty Model: Theory Meets the Trading Floor

ITI’s distinctive dual-faculty modelcombines:

• Academic faculty, ensuring intellectual rigor and degree-level depth
• Market veterans, bringing decades of real trading and portfolio management experience

This ensures you don’t just learn about markets—you learn how professionals operate within them, including decision-making under uncertainty, execution discipline, and accountability.

Develop Your Trading Edge & Mental Mastery

Technical skill alone is not enough to succeed in professional trading.

You’ll work extensively on the psychological and behavioral dimensions that separate amateurs from professionals, including:

• Emotional regulation and decision-making under pressure
• Risk tolerance, drawdown management, and confidence calibration
• Developing a trading process you can trust and execute consistently

Psychology training is embedded throughout the program, not treated as an optional add-on.

Execute Like a Professional Trader

Knowledge becomes skill through application.

You will:

• Analyze live and historical markets with experienced mentors
• Develop, test, and refine your own professional trading plan
• Defend your approach through a capstone project, demonstrating structured thinking, risk control, and execution logic
• By graduation, you won’t be relying on signals or opinions—you’ll have a defined process you can explain, justify, and execute.

Join a Serious Global Trading Community

Trading is often solitary, but professional development is not.

As part of ITI, you’ll engage with:

• A global cohort of committed traders and finance professionals
• Faculty who remain active in markets and industry discussions
• A learning environment focused on discipline, accountability, and long-term development

This is a community built around professional standards, not social-media trading culture.

Accreditation and Professional Recognition

The Master’s in Trading is delivered as a fully accredited postgraduate program, ensuring academic rigor and international recognition.

The degree is awarded by Westcliff University (USA), an institution accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC), one of the recognized U.S. regional accrediting bodies.

This academic structure ensures the program meets formal higher-education standards while remaining closely aligned with real-world trading practice.

Professional Technical Analysis Framework (STA)

Technical analysis within the Master’s program is taught using the Society of Technical Analysts (STA) framework, one of the most respected professional standards in the field.

The STA curriculum is embedded directly into the Master’s coursework, and students have the option to sit for and earn:

• STA Diploma in Technical Analysis – Part I
• STA Diploma in Technical Analysis – Part II

These qualifications are globally recognized professional credentials and provide an additional layer of industry validation alongside the Master’s degree.

This integration ensures students are not only academically trained, but also aligned with professional certification standards used by practitioners worldwide.

This program is for you!

The Master’s in Trading is designed for two distinct but aligned paths.

The Independent Trader

You already trade, but you want to operate with greater structure, confidence, and consistency.

This program is for you if you want to:

• Trade multiple asset classes with a coherent framework
• Strengthen your risk management and capital preservation approach
• Move beyond intuition toward professional-level decision-making
• Manage your own or private capital with greater discipline

You’ll gain the tools, mindset, and structure needed for sustainable, long-term trading performance.

The Professional Aspirant

You aim to move into or progress within professional trading environments.

This program helps you build:

• Credibility that comes from rigorous, accredited coursework combined with applied market skill
• The analytical depth and risk awareness expected by professional firms
• A credible pathway toward roles in proprietary trading firms, hedge funds, and investment banks

Rather than generic finance theory, you develop practical trading competence aligned with institutional expectations.

Program Structure and Core Areas

The Master’s program covers:

• Advanced technical and market structure analysis
• Macro and micro market fundamentals
• Professional trading psychology and performance development
• Algorithmic and systematic trading concepts
• Institutional-grade risk management and execution discipline

All delivered in a flexible, part-time format, allowing you to study alongside work or active trading.