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By taking the Advanced Trading Algorithms course offered by Coursera in partnership with Indian School of Business, you will learn various methods of building a robust back testing system for the strategies discussed in the previous course. You will be taught how to differentiate between mere data mining and results based on solid empirical or theoretical foundation.
Next, you will learn the ways and means of back testing the results and subjecting the back test results to stress tests. After which, you will learn the various ways in which transaction costs and other frictions could be incorporated in the back testing algorithm.
Finally, you will learn techniques for measuring a strategies' performance and the concept of risk adjusted return. You will use some of the famous measures for risk adjusted returns such as Sharpe ratio, Treynor's Ratio and Jenson's Alpha. You will see how to pick an appropriate benchmark for a proposed fund.
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Courses include:
- Strategy - Accruals
- Strategy - Betting against Beta
- Strategy - Momentum & Momentum Crashes
- Strategy - G Score
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Duration
- Part-time
- 1 days
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- Self-paced
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We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
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We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
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General requirements
- Intermediate Level
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Funding
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