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
What You'll Learn
- Understand financial statements and company reports
- Extract financial information to build trading strategies
- Calculate expected returns for stocks and portfolios
- Comprehend market transactions, order types, and trading costs
- Develop effective trading strategies based on academic research
Prerequisites
- Basic computer and internet skills
- Ability to read course instructions and complete short practice tasks
Instructors
Ramabhadran Thirumalai
Assistant Professor