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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 VANSH A

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Jul 3, 2020

week 4 second last lecture should be explained properly with more examples and depth explanation

By Ram K S

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Jun 11, 2020

A bit technical course in Finance but well covered in the modules. Thanks to Prof. Ramabhadran.

By Harsh V

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Sep 13, 2020

It was very knowledgeable and an excellent course. Although video quality should be improvised

By Omar A C V

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Oct 12, 2020

Thanks to the teacher. Explains in a fairly clear way both theoretical and practical concepts

By Himanshu G

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Jan 30, 2018

Course is really good but not much assignments are given so you have to practice on your own.

By David H

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Jan 18, 2017

Muy basico pero se necesitan temas de estadistica previos para entender modelos como el CAPM.

By Sarvik S (

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Jun 24, 2021

this is a course in which you have to invest your time. otherwise you wont be able to do it.

By Checco W

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Jan 1, 2018

This is quite useful although some of the numbers showed in the video or quiz is incorrect.

By Neelesh G

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Nov 14, 2017

Its a nice course to understand the basics even for someone with non-finance background.

By ghalia a

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Jun 13, 2020

the only problem was the sound system in week 4 , other than that everything was good .

By Phenomenal P

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Sep 7, 2020

week 1 and week 2 are excellent intros. week 3 and 4 could be taught for a bit longer.

By Mr. N A

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May 1, 2023

Its a very good course for non traders as well as basic course for trading community.

By Prashast M

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Oct 28, 2017

the course was good. i felt that the class duration was very less to cover the topics

By Xena N

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Jul 6, 2020

This is a wholesome course could have been better if the teaching wasn't monotonous.

By AMAN K

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May 7, 2020

could have added some more reading sources. apart from that, well-defined course.

By Shubham U

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Jan 19, 2021

It was a bit fast paced. The part with numericals couldve been explained better.

By Balaji G C

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Aug 10, 2020

Very useful course and I wish that speed of teaching can little to be decreased

By Sachin K

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May 11, 2020

The 3rd week module needs improvement for understanding each concept in it.

By Franco A

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Apr 9, 2017

The course is very interesting but sometimes is too fast on difficult steps

By Shivalik K

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Jul 30, 2020

Explanation was not good. It was as if he was just reading it out loud.

By Dhruv A

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Jun 18, 2017

It was great, but need to refine the slides which are incorrect.

By Bladimir R

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Jun 15, 2020

It is quite complex, sometimes the quiz is difficult to follow.

By Mayank J

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Jan 25, 2020

A very good course except for a few mistakes in the videos.

By D H P R

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Jun 29, 2023

the week three about portfolio calculation is not clear

By Pratikshya

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Jun 29, 2020

A condensed beginer's course! Grt learning experience.