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About the 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....

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UP

Jun 19, 2020

The tutor has clearly explained various concept of trading, investment and risk with examples. I have learned about finance ratio, cost, financial statement and trading.

SV

May 16, 2020

The course was taught in a really nice way with all the math presented clearly. The professor made sure that the topics were easy and at the same time relevant.

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By Ivan d A S

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Jun 5, 2023

There are some corrections to be done in the course's material, because sometimes what is written in the companion text isn't the same was told in video.

There is to much focus on numbers instead of where they came from and what to do with them on the algorithms

By Daesik K

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Jul 3, 2017

It was a good intro course. There were few typos in the presentations. Few courses do not provide a transcript. One thing I really didn't like is that there is no answer or explanation for a quiz. I used the discussion forum, yet there is still no reply.

By Roberto S O

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Feb 9, 2021

Its not very complete when thwy explain where do they get some results or answers. Also some of the information or numbers are wrong on the presentation. Poor video quality in some videos. But you learn about trading and thats the main goal of these course.

By Hiranyagarbh N

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Jul 5, 2020

Instructor just reads the slides, no proper explanations. Would recommend refering investopedia to learn about basic financial concepts. Quizzes were hard, especially 2nd and 4th, insufficient info in many questions, and no proper feedback.

By Deleted A

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Jun 13, 2021

This is a great subject, tutored with lot of examples. The teaching methodology though I think should have served betted for me if explained with the intuition and simple reason behind each of the mathematical formulas.

By Kalyan K S

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Aug 2, 2020

Starting 2 weeks were good. Teaching was excellent, But main portion starts from WEEK 3 where Professor didn't explain well on the starting point of trading basics. So i was not able to acquire good knowledge and insights

By anishek a

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Jun 14, 2020

its not like a trading basics its like a theory and theory telling formula without telling the meaning of that technical term . not good examples were given so understandng those things as a student is a tuff challenge

By Sujay A

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Jul 23, 2020

There are a lot of topics where you need to understand the basics of statistics, this is not something everyone is aware off. The faculty just speaks out what is in the slides. There is no in-depth explanation.

By Juan P

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Nov 29, 2020

The course is very simple and basic, which is good for starting the specialization. However, there are many errors in the slides, subtitles and video editing that makes difficult the understanding of subjects.

By Sandeep J

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Mar 16, 2020

Week 1 and four are pretty useful. Week 3 is extremely confusing. In week 3 the instructor throws in a lot of jargon that has not been mentioned or explained previously. Overall learning experience was okay.

By Madhav J

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Apr 25, 2020

the first two weeks are quite good and helpful, however while coming to the 3 rd and 4th week things get messy , there are no feedbacks given in the quiz as well as the information given is also blurry.

By Shivam A

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Feb 27, 2017

One of the best lecture series for beginners like me. Some of the statistical concepts should have been explained better, but once you get past that, you appreciate the logic in the trading system.

By Stephan S

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Apr 27, 2020

Probably it is a custutal problem, but I do not like a professor reading the numbers on a slide. The content of the course is really good, but for europeans the teaching style is unusual.

By Sukeerth M

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May 13, 2020

As a beginner course into the specialization, this is really helpful, but there seem to be a lot of errors in videos and slides that the Prof was using. I just hope they can correct this

By Pallav S

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Aug 13, 2017

The teacher spends more time on uncessary things like reciting the whole equation whih is clearly visible on the screen and topics which could have been expalined in a better way

By somya a

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Jul 19, 2020

the third week's video about the CAPM Model should be explained in more detail and the beta calculation too.

otherwise the course ave good information on the basics of trading.

By Raghav T

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Jun 29, 2020

Should share a demo to help calculate during the course before the quiz. That allows for some practice for people who are not good with numbers. Just a suggestion.

By Deleted A

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Aug 2, 2020

The course was able to show some important fundamentals but I believe that it lacks a bit of reference and for week 03 the content was not so well prepared.

By Rithika

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Jun 20, 2020

Lack of commitment by the professor on explaining other than reading out the script. This can be done by just sharing PDF's with us. The content was good.

By Onur Ö

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Jan 19, 2017

Although it delves into key elements of trading where it really matters, course lacks explanation on some subjects. Course progresses monotonously.

By Om U

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Jun 1, 2020

week 3 explanation and content was very poor. continuity wasn't maintained. weeks 1, 2 and 3 were decent. more practice should've been included.

By Ketan K

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May 9, 2020

This course is not properly designed as it has various typos which makes it difficult to understand. Certain topics are not explained properly.

By Kostas P

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Jun 27, 2017

Good overview of trade basics

Presentation could be improved on passing on the message and less focusing on reading the numbers in the examples.

By Knut H H

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Nov 14, 2016

Skillful instructor, but terrible technical setup, and plenty of faults in the lecture slides in the videos. Also the audio-quality is poor.

By GurudasBhat 0 C S

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Jul 7, 2020

Great course to get introduced to fundamental analysis. Gets a bit messy as videos are missing in week 3. Would not really recommend this.