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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 Pavitra A

May 15, 2020

Lessons are taught in a boring way. in the end I have to google the topics to understand it better. will not recommend thus course.

By CRISTIAN G S

Jan 15, 2021

There is no material as a pdf or ppt used in the course. Also traductións aren't correct and week 3 of the course was awful

By Sudhakar D

Jul 28, 2020

Very poor. Looks like quizzes have so many problem. Wasting time to clear the quizzes.

By Sunny S

Mar 30, 2021

Probably the worst instructor around! My sympathies with the students at ISB

By Alberto S C F

Oct 4, 2020

A professor reading slides is all you'll get from this course.

By DIANA G G S

Jul 23, 2020

La verdad el Profesor no explica muy bien los ejercicios

By Suchit D

Aug 29, 2020

very bad, man.

Youtubers teach better than this.

By Palash W

Sep 10, 2020

The course was not at all well explained

By JOSE J E V

Jul 23, 2020

the teacher doesn't explain, horrible!

By Bernard R N D

Aug 21, 2020

Math formulas were skimmed over.

By Aswin K E K

May 8, 2020

Not good enough to understand.

By Pulkit J

Aug 14, 2020

Worst Course do not take

By Sai P G

May 30, 2019

Worst payment technique

By NAIMISH K B

Jun 20, 2020

BAD EXPLANATION

By Vladimír V

Jun 11, 2019

Horrible sound

By Pablo G Q

May 28, 2021

Awful class

By RICARDO M V

Nov 27, 2017

Es un curso importante para los que estamos interesados en aprender sobre este tema, explica aspectos y términos que desconocía, deseo aprender mas por un precio accesible, confieso que no domino el idioma ingles, pero eso no ha sido limitante para hacer el esfuerzo por entender y aprobar. Gracias Coursera, Gracias ISB, GRACIAS MAESTRO.

By Rehan U

Apr 13, 2020

The course content was awesome...I only have some background in the finance field and all the theory in this course felt pointless... but after thorough research of every topic and a lot of reading...each and every topic of this course started to make sense and it was awesome learning these things.....

By Bogdan I

Oct 22, 2018

Hello! Thanks for sharing this course, it is really useful for those who are just starting in finance and investments. I would recommend to split some video lectures by small quizzes of 2-3 questions to practice on concrete topic and in the end to check knowledge learned for the week. Thanks!

By Prateek S

Jul 27, 2020

In quiz 4 there is an error in data - at 11:59 bid-ask spread is given 36.2 & 36.05 it should be 36.02 & 36.05

Overall course is good for a beginner but week 3 is like a sudden jump it would be better if you could increase the difficulty not too gradual (Problem only in week-3 rest was good).

By GEORGE A T

Apr 13, 2020

First, I want to thank the lessons taught by INDIAN SCHOOL OF BUSSINES.I think the initial course could be improved by attaching Excel files to perform the explained calculations of all Operations and finally more examples of calculations. I sent you a great greeting from Peru.

By Andrés C F

May 16, 2021

Excelente curso, muy matemático y preciso, se aprende desde a comprender los primeros conceptos básicos sobre los estados financieros hasta calcular los costos, algunos vídeos deben verse más de una vez para llegar a una comprensión total, principalmente si no hablas inglés.

By Kanahaiya

May 2, 2020

This course basically provides a fundamental analysis of share and how to analyze a company performance, which is quite beneficial. Overall experience is good, but can be explained more and detailed so that people with non-financial background can have some advantages.

By Atindra G

Jul 18, 2017

Its a very nice course. This course is must for any one who wants to pursue career in trading. Professor's teaching methodology is really commendable. I would recommend you to take this course. Thank you Coursera.

By sapron s

Mar 9, 2021

A huge thanks to Prof. Ramabhadran Thirumalai at IBS for giving expert insight into the basics of Trading in emerging markets, and also to Coursera for providing a wholesome platform for pursuing this course.