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Iran Capital Market Dealing Exam study plan

Iran Capital Market Dealing Exam · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Capital Market Law and Regulation

  • Map the regulatory hierarchy (securities market law, supervisory body regulations, exchange and CSDI rules) and state which layer governs each of five common market activities

  • Define the licensing and registration categories for dealers, brokers, advisors, and fund managers, and list the capital and reporting obligations attached to each

  • Explain the core investor-protection rules: disclosure duties, prohibition of market manipulation, and insider dealing, with one concrete example of a breach for each

  • Identify the supervisory and enforcement powers of the market authority, including inspection, sanction, and suspension tools

Your checkpoint

A one-page regulatory map plus a table of 20 regulation-to-activity matches, self-scored against the syllabus with any gaps flagged

Week 2

Capital Market Law and Regulation & Professional Ethics and Market Conduct

  • Trace the rule-making and approval process for new instruments and for exchange listing, and list the documents a listing applicant must submit

  • Distinguish the duties owed to clients from those owed to the market, and apply them to three conflict-of-interest scenarios

  • Explain the consequences of failing to disclose material information and of front-running a client order

  • Draft the key compliance controls a dealing firm must maintain under the conduct rules

Your checkpoint

Three written ethics case analyses (150-200 words each) with the applicable rule cited and the correct course of action stated

Week 3

Securities Market Structure and Participants & Trading Mechanisms, Order Handling, and Market Operations

  • Describe the roles of the regulator, exchanges, the central securities depository, clearing house, and registry, and state the handoffs between them

  • List the participant categories (broker, dealer, market maker, institutional investor) and the functions each may perform

  • Explain the order types available on the exchange and the matching rules that apply to each

  • Sequence an order from client instruction through validation, routing, execution, and confirmation

  • Identify the trading halts, price limits, and circuit-breaker mechanisms and when each is triggered

Your checkpoint

A process flow diagram of a single trade from client order to confirmation, annotated with the responsible entity at each step

Week 4

Equity Securities: Shares, Rights Issues, and Corporate Actions

  • Distinguish ordinary shares, preferred shares, and non-voting shares by rights to dividend, voting, and residual assets

  • Explain the mechanics of a rights issue, including subscription period, entitlement ratio, and treatment of unsubscribed rights

  • Describe corporate actions (bonus shares, stock splits, capital increases, dividend distribution) and their effect on price and share count

  • Calculate the theoretical ex-rights and ex-dividend price for three worked examples

Your checkpoint

A corporate-action problem set (10 calculations) completed with workings and a short note on each answer's market implication

Week 5

Fixed Income Instruments: Sukuk, Bonds, and Money Market Instruments & Collective Investment Schemes and Other Market Instruments

  • Classify sukuk structures (ijara, murabaha, musharaka, wakala) and explain the asset backing and return mechanism of each

  • Compare sukuk with conventional bonds on risk, pricing, and Sharia compliance constraints

  • List the money market instruments available and their typical tenor, issuer, and use case

  • Explain the structure and pricing of collective investment schemes, including unit valuation and fees

  • Describe the disclosure and reporting duties of fund managers to unit holders

Your checkpoint

A comparison matrix of five fixed income and fund instruments across issuer, tenor, return basis, risk, and disclosure requirements

Week 6

Clearing, Settlement, and Post-Trade Operations & Anti-Money Laundering and Know-Your-Customer Requirements

  • Explain the clearing and settlement cycle, including netting, novation, and the role of the central counterparty

  • Describe delivery-versus-payment mechanics and the consequences of a settlement failure

  • List the customer due diligence steps required at onboarding and the triggers for enhanced due diligence

  • Identify suspicious transaction indicators relevant to securities accounts and the reporting obligation that follows

  • State the record-keeping requirements for client identification and transaction records

Your checkpoint

A settlement-failure scenario write-up plus a completed sample KYC checklist for two client profiles (low risk and high risk)

Week 7

Trading Mechanisms, Order Handling, and Market Operations & Equity Securities: Shares, Rights Issues, and Corporate Actions & Fixed Income Instruments: Sukuk, Bonds, and Money Market Instruments

  • Rehearse order-handling edge cases: client priority, best execution, error trades, and order cancellation rules

  • Re-derive the corporate-action calculations from week 4 without notes

  • Re-derive sukuk pricing and yield relationships from week 5 without notes

  • Complete a timed 60-question mixed set covering domains 3, 4, and 6 and review every wrong answer

Your checkpoint

Timed practice set score logged with a written error log categorising each mistake as knowledge gap, misreading, or calculation error

Week 8

Capital Market Law and Regulation & Professional Ethics and Market Conduct & Anti-Money Laundering and Know-Your-Customer Requirements

  • Recite the key regulatory thresholds, deadlines, and reporting periods from memory across all domains

  • Work through ten ethics and AML mini-scenarios and justify each decision in one sentence

  • Complete two full-length timed mock exams under exam conditions and score them

  • Target the three weakest topics identified in the error log and close them with focused re-reading

Your checkpoint

Two scored mock exams with a final one-page cheat sheet of thresholds, deadlines, and formulas

Milestones

Week 2: Can explain the regulatory hierarchy and the dealer's conduct duties without notes, and score at least 80% on a self-made 25-question set on domains 1 and 8

Week 4: Can complete all corporate-action calculations correctly and explain the ex-rights and ex-dividend price logic in plain language

Week 6: Can trace a trade through clearing and settlement and list the full KYC onboarding sequence from memory

Week 8: Two full mock exams completed with scores at or above 75% and no domain below 60%