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AMIB Operador de Bolsa study plan

AMIB Operador de Bolsa · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Marco regulatorio y estructura del mercado de valores mexicano & Operación, liquidación y post-negociación

  • Map the Mexican securities market participants (issuers, brokers, exchanges, clearing houses, regulators) into a one-page diagram from memory

  • List the key obligations an Operador de Bolsa owes under the securities law framework and classify each as pre-trade, trade-time, or post-trade

  • Trace the full lifecycle of a single equity trade from order capture to settlement, naming the entity responsible at each step

  • Distinguish the roles of the securities regulator, the central bank, and the exchange's self-regulatory function

Your checkpoint

One-page market-structure diagram plus a 15-row trade-lifecycle table with responsible party per step

Week 2

Marco regulatorio y estructura del mercado de valores mexicano & Ética profesional y cumplimiento normativo

  • Summarize the conduct rules that apply to order handling, client priority, and conflicts of interest

  • Identify three realistic scenarios that would constitute market manipulation or misuse of privileged information and state the correct action in each

  • Draft a personal compliance checklist an operator would run before accepting and executing a client order

  • Explain the consequences of a compliance breach at the individual, firm, and market level

Your checkpoint

A one-page pre-trade compliance checklist with at least 10 checkpoints

Week 3

Instrumentos de renta variable & Instrumentos de renta fija y deuda

  • Compare the main equity instrument types available in the Mexican market by rights, voting, and dividend treatment

  • Compute gross and net dividend yield, earnings per share, and price-to-earnings for a hypothetical issuer

  • Differentiate fixed-rate, floating-rate, and inflation-linked debt instruments and identify which cash flows each generates

  • Calculate accrued interest and clean versus dirty price for a coupon-paying bond given days since last coupon

  • Rank a set of instruments by credit and duration risk and justify the ordering

Your checkpoint

A worked problem set of 10 calculations (5 equity, 5 fixed income) with answers and short explanations

Week 4

Análisis fundamental y valuación de empresas & Gestión de portafolios y teoría de inversión

  • Build a three-statement mini model for a sample company from public data and derive free cash flow

  • Apply discounted cash flow and comparable-multiples valuation to the same company and reconcile the two estimates

  • Compute expected return, variance, and correlation for a two-asset portfolio and plot the efficient frontier conceptually

  • Explain beta, the security market line, and what an alpha estimate implies about skill versus luck

Your checkpoint

A two-page valuation memo for one company with DCF value, multiple-based value, and a stated recommendation

Week 5

Derivados y productos estructurados & Administración de riesgos

  • Explain the payoff profile of futures, forwards, options, and swaps and identify the obligation versus right in each

  • Compute the payoff and profit at expiry for a long call, long put, and a covered call at three strike scenarios

  • Calculate the delta-equivalent exposure of a simple options position and describe how it changes with the underlying

  • Identify market, credit, liquidity, and operational risks in a given portfolio and propose one mitigation per risk

  • Compute value at risk for a single position using a simple parametric approach and state its limitations

Your checkpoint

A risk register for a 5-position sample portfolio with exposure numbers, mapped risks, and mitigants

Week 6

Análisis técnico y estrategias de trading & Gestión de portafolios y teoría de inversión

  • Identify trend, support, resistance, and volume patterns on a price series and state the entry, stop, and target each implies

  • Compute a moving average crossover rule and a relative strength index reading by hand for a short series

  • Design a trading plan with position sizing based on a fixed fractional risk rule

  • Compare active trading against a passive allocation and articulate when each is appropriate for a client

Your checkpoint

A written trading plan for one instrument including entry, stop, target, position size, and invalidation criteria

Week 7

Ética profesional y cumplimiento normativo & Administración de riesgos & Operación, liquidación y post-negociación

  • Resolve five ethics vignettes covering front-running, churning, suitability, gifts, and confidentiality with a defensible decision

  • Reconcile a sample trade blotter against settlement confirmations and identify any breaks

  • Explain margin, collateral, and the consequences of a failed settlement for the operator and the client

  • List the recordkeeping and reporting duties that follow execution of a client order

Your checkpoint

Five written ethics resolutions plus a completed blotter reconciliation with breaks flagged

Week 8

Marco regulatorio y estructura del mercado de valores mexicano & Instrumentos de renta variable & Instrumentos de renta fija y deuda & Derivados y productos estructurados & Análisis fundamental y valuación de empresas & Análisis técnico y estrategias de trading & Gestión de portafolios y teoría de inversión & Administración de riesgos & Ética profesional y cumplimiento normativo & Operación, liquidación y post-negociación

  • Complete two full-length timed practice exams and score each by domain

  • Re-study only the two lowest-scoring domains and re-test those domains

  • Recite from memory the key formulas for bond pricing, portfolio risk, option payoff, and valuation

  • Write a one-page personal error log of recurring mistakes and the correction for each

Your checkpoint

Two scored practice exams with a domain-by-domain score table and a one-page error log

Milestones

Week 2: Can explain the trade lifecycle and the operator's compliance duties without notes, scoring at least 80% on a self-made 20-question quiz on domains 1 and 9

Week 4: Produces a valuation memo and portfolio risk numbers unaided, and passes a 15-question mixed quiz on domains 2, 3, 5, and 7 at 75% or better

Week 6: Writes a complete trading plan with quantified risk per trade and correctly computes option payoffs and a simple VaR figure

Week 8: Scores 75% or higher overall on both timed practice exams with no domain below 60%