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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 Chembuli S H

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Jun 5, 2020

Very informative with high information density. One will have to make extensive notes and indulge in reading from external sources too if one wants to clear the tests.

Extremely helpful, but the only issue being no feedback on the tests being given for the first two quizzes.

By Shubham S

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Jun 29, 2020

This course helped me understand trading a lot. It covers all the basic concepts involved in trading and in addition to that it also teaches how to evaluate a company by reading the balance sheet of a company. The examples used helped me a lot and were easy to understand.

By TANVEER H

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May 28, 2020

More details need to be given. Also, there are some mistakes in the course that needs to be rectified e.g. there are the instances where prof narrates a number and some other number is shown on the screen.

Overall the course is very helpful and simply explained

By Saurabh

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Aug 22, 2020

Instructor should look forward to make the course content little more engaging, not just read the numbers, especially for week 2 material. Physical significance if provided will help a lot better in understanding the material from long term perspective

By Alain F B U

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Jul 31, 2020

It was an insightful course, that can provide you with the basic knowledge of trading. Though some of the formulas were not explained enough thus making it difficult to understand them. Overall, I highly recommend it if you are interested in trading.

By Alberto A V

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Oct 12, 2020

Muy interesante, pero se me hizo muy difícil por las fórmulas matemáticas y el idioma. Hay varios temas que son complejos y la explicación no es muy clara. Hace años que estoy en el trading, y aprendí muchos conceptos que desconocía.

By Amir A

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May 8, 2020

Trading basics provides a very good opportunity to learn basic of trading. These basics are very helpful in understanding the performances of stock listed companies. I think a good course to begin a self-sufficient trading career.

By Ramon

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May 22, 2017

Great content and range in topics. The powerpoint presentation could use a little improvements and small corrections. I would like a little more explanation on the formulas or examples of them in use before the quizzes. Thank you!

By Giang N

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Nov 23, 2020

Foundational knowledge regarding Trading attained but the slides have not been well prepared. There are a lot of confusions in terms of number errors and error in the slides. Overall it is a good course but not excellent.

By DAIDEEP B

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Jun 30, 2020

Very informative course, I always wanted to learn about share market and this course help me to achieve that. There should be solved answers at the end of the week but nevertheless I got basic information of share market.

By Prakshit B

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Nov 23, 2018

I think the faculty could have been more explanatory in Week 3, and more factually correct and in sync with the data being read out from slides. Otherwise, this course provides a learning step for a beginner for sure.

By Wong T S

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May 27, 2020

The lessons in week 1 and 2 were pretty clear and straightforward with the explanation of the financial statement components, however Week 3 and 4 lessons were a bit all over the place, especially the CAPM parts.

By Shubham V P

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Jun 13, 2020

Course is good in terms of getting familiar with basic terminologies related to share market. But explanations could have been made even better. At some point it feels like instructor is just reading the sildes.

By Soumya S P

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Mar 31, 2020

Incredibly simply explained. A great learning experience.

However, a small request for the editing team, there are couple of videos, out of sync with the images, and a few numbers as well, esp in the fourth week

By Nicolas R G

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Jun 23, 2020

It would be nice to have the spreadsheets available to do the calculations

Improve audio

Excellent content of the course although in my opinion it is necessary to see more basic financial mathematics

By Varun B

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Dec 23, 2018

While the course provides a relevant insight into the key aspects of investments and trading, the end of week quiz does not provide a holistic representation of the topic covered in the course

By Rashad H

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Nov 15, 2019

Course was normal to help you for getting basic elements of finance but I think that they could make it much better.Genrally,it was normal course.Participants,be careful with week 2 quiz))

By Eduardo S T N

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Aug 15, 2020

Apparently there is a missing part when the professor is talking about the calculation of beta, it doesn't introduce the concepts of covariance and suddenly it appears in the video.

By Harshit s

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Jul 26, 2020

Course structure is good, it covers almost everything but if you are looking for an understanding its not for you. They have a script and its all bookish knowledge. so all the best!

By Udeshya R

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Jul 25, 2021

The course is great and well structured. The only thing that might be lacking is it focuses on long term investment by analyzing balance sheet and not on the short term trading.

By Shashank

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Oct 7, 2018

This course provides basic understanding of vocabulary for people from various domains.

There is a lot of learn, the tests are right place for application of learnt knowledge.

By P P R

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Apr 25, 2020

Some places slides are different from what the instructor is teaching. The instructor could have spent less time on reading numerals and use this time to explain concepts

By Sounak P

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May 5, 2020

Certain parts in week 2 were not clearly explained..

However, everything cannot be perfect , altogether the course was very helpful and will surely help me.

Thank You

By Vinay S B

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Aug 3, 2020

Good for beginner but would recommend to have a bit knowledge about trading as it will be easy to grasp, Also WEEK 3 will be very challenging as its just MATH