Trading Basics, Certificate | Part time online | Coursera | United States
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About

The purpose of this Trading Basics course offered by Coursera in partnership with Indian School of Business 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.

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Overview

Key Features

The first part of the Trading Basics course offered by Coursera in partnership with Indian School of Business 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.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

  • Basics of Financial Statements
  • Financial Statement Analysis
  • Asset pricing theories
  • Basics of Market Microstructure

Key information

Duration

  • Part-time
    • 1 days

Start dates & application deadlines

You can apply for and start this programme anytime.

Language

English

Delivered

Online
  • Self-paced

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

  • Beginner level
  • No previous experience necessary

Tuition Fee

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Funding

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