The Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development coordinated this year’s second investment workshop devoted to the basics of successful stock market operations. The workshop was mainly targeted at shaping the participants’ general ideas on how to invest in stock market themselves and take independent decisions regarding selling or buying of securities. In the first part of the seminar, the bank’s experts told the attendees about the structure of the securities market, its main operational tools, and the conditions one needs to start operating independently; in addition, a short introduction was given to the e-trading theory. In the second part, all the participants had a chance to look into the case studies of stock trading and explore the trading strategies, basic risks, and risk/profitability ratio. The decision-making principles brought into the limelight in the course of the workshop aroused a lively debate as well as plenty of questions. The workshop participants wished this topic could be further dwelled upon in the future seminars (and these are soon to come).

The workshop was conducted in the Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s Investment Center as usual. The Center is in fact a specialized bank office that offers its customers a full range of investment services, including those that let one deal in independent trading.