About this course: The purpose of this course is to equip you with the knowledge required to comprehend the financial statements of a company and understand the various transactions that take place in the stock market so that you can replicate the strategies discovered by the extant academic literature. The first part of the course provides a brief introduction to financial statements and various common filings of firms. You will learn how to obtain information regarding a company's performance from them and use the information to build trading strategies. Next, you are taught basic asset pricing theories so that you will be able to calculate the expected returns of a stock or a portfolio. Finally, you will be introduced to the actual functioning of asset markets, type of players in the market, different types of orders and the efficient ways and opportune time to execute them, trading costs and ways of minimizing them, the concept of liquidity .etc. This knowledge is required to develop efficient algorithm to execute various trading strategies.
Who is this class for: This course is primarily aimed at individual investors who want to gain the skills required to develop their own trading strategies and trade using them. Although not necessary, completing the course on 'Portfolio Management' by the same professor will be of help.
Taught by: Ramabhadran Thirumalai, Assistant Professor
Indian School of Business
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Course 1 of 5 in the
Trading Strategies in Emerging Markets Specialization.
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| Level | Beginner |
| Commitment | The estimated workload for this course is 3 to 4 hours per week |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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The course is very interesting but sometimes is too fast on difficult steps
A good course with thorough knowledge of the basic terminology required for trading
Very happy with this course! It was easy to follow with a good mix of theory and examples.
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Great content and range in topics. The powerpoint presentation could use a little improvements and small corrections. I would like a little more explanation on the formulas or examples of them in use before the quizzes. Thank you!