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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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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 Prakhar J

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Apr 7, 2020

The course was good. But some points were not illustrated in the videos but have relevant relation with the course. So I have to check them on the internet.

By Saras C

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Feb 21, 2017

A general brief about how you can make calculated and broad assumptions on the tock market. Not a specialized course but is helpful in getting the basics.

By Juan A L R

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Oct 31, 2020

On the three it got i little bit complicated because it was a lack of information about a spetific topic (The CAPM) But the rest was really great. Thanks

By Ujjwal S

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May 29, 2019

The asset pricing model calculation and calculation of covariance is not explained at all which is a drawback because it is considered a beginner course

By Bruno d S B

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May 23, 2020

Week 2 quiz has precision errors on answers and week 4 videos have audio issues, overall week 1 and week 4 are the best of the course to a beginner

By Mduduzi S

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Jan 24, 2020

Content was well taught and explained but i feel that the form of testing could be better in assessing understanding and application of concepts.

By Avik C

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Apr 16, 2020

Week 1,2 and 4 very well explained

Week 3 had certain areas that could have been explained better such as the weights found in CAPM using solver

By John J

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Aug 28, 2019

Good introduction to the basics of trading. The skills covered in this course are prerequisites for understanding the trading environment.

By PLN R

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Jun 24, 2019

The explanation can be made a lot more lively. Otherwise, the instructor is extremely knowledgeable and gives good idea of the subject.

By Kaushal B

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Apr 17, 2020

Was good enough. But the parts where the formulae were explained was a little fast. Could be made easier to understand in that section

By Oscar S B

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Dec 15, 2020

Responde al titulo de Basics, pero no es realmente sobre Trading. Aun asi esta bien para iniciarse en el mundo del mercado de valores

By Jay K J

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May 1, 2020

It was a good course. There are few mistakes in the video the numerical part as well as in quiz 4 questions which needs correction.

By Vineel B

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Dec 4, 2016

The course was pretty good. Also the examples used while explaining various concepts were very helpful while trying to understand.

By Pritamjay S

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Jul 18, 2020

The course is well designed but at some places there are few discrepancies between the dictation and the content of the slides .

By Bharat S

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Jun 29, 2020

there is some mistakes in the course. which is not expected from a well known B-school professor. hope you will change it soon.

By Rohit C

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Jun 8, 2023

IT WAS GOOD BUT THERE ARE FEW MISTAKES IN WRITTEN SCRIPTS ON SCREEN. SOME DATA WAS ACCURATE AND NOT MATCHING WITH LECTURE

By SHIKHAR V

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Jul 25, 2019

Really good course, Starts from the very basics of accounting and goes onto building the foundations of the Equity market

By Priyanjit P

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Aug 30, 2020

Great course. However there are few errors in some of the slides with respect to the numerical figures or calculations.

By DINAKARAN J

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Jun 17, 2020

really it was very good to learn only the quiz part is lite bit not satisfied other than that everything is fantastic.

By Shubham G

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May 2, 2020

Monotonous

First two weeks were great and laid a solid foundation.

Faculty seemed uninterested in the last two weeks.

By Mrqeoqqt

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Jul 5, 2020

Thanks. The specification and the course is well designed.

Asset pricing models need more clarification.

By Muskaan P

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Nov 9, 2019

Need to be a bit more informative on the basis of formulas usage. it is complicated for the new viewers.

By Pranjal J

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May 11, 2020

there were some mistakes in numericals with respect to representation of figures please look into that

By Joanne

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Feb 26, 2019

If the professor can provide the excel solver solution to clarify the calculation, that will be great.

By Amit B

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Apr 25, 2018

Mixed review..

Few concepts really solved..few are still mystery..

But the faculty is really good..