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.
Who is this class for: This course is primarily aimed at individual investors who want to gain the skills required to develop their own trading strategies and trade using them. Although not necessary, completing the course on 'Portfolio Management' by the same professor will be of help.
Taught by: Ramabhadran Thirumalai, Assistant Professor
Indian School of Business
| Basic Info | Course 1 of 5 in the Trading Strategies in Emerging Markets Specialization |
| Level | Beginner |
| Commitment | The estimated workload for this course is 3 to 4 hours per week |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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- Video: Introduction
- Video: 1. Introduction to accounting
- Video: 2. The balance sheet
- Video: 3. Assets
- Video: 4. Liabilities
- Video: 5. Shareholders’ Equity
- Video: 6. Income Statement
- Video: 7. Expenses 1
- Video: 8. Expenses 2
- Video: 9. Statement of Cash Flows
- Video: 10. Cash Flows from Operations
- Video: 11. Cash Flows from Investments and Financing
- Reading: 10 Things to Know About Every Cash Flow Statement
- Discussion Prompt: Manchester United
- Video: 1. Financial Statement Analysis
- Video: 2. Profitability ratios
- Video: 3. Activity Ratios
- Video: 4. Solvency and Liquidity Ratios
- Video: 5. DuPont Identity
- Reading: What are the limitations of ratio analysis?
- Video: 1. Expected returns and risk
- Video: 2. Diversification
- Video: 3. CAPM
- Video: 4. CAPM Beta
- Video: 5. Multifactor Models
- Video: 6. APT
- Video: 7. Arbitrage
- Video: 8. Arbitrage-Free Price
- Video: 9. Risk Factors
- Reading: The 15-Stock Diversification Myth
- Discussion Prompt: Asset pricing models
- Video: 1. Market and Limit Orders
- Video: 2. Limit Order Book
- Video: 3. More Limit Order Book
- Video: 4. Limit Price Placement
- Video: 5. Stop-Loss Orders
- Video: 6. Short-Selling
- Video: 7. Other Order Instructions
- Video: 8. Liquidity
- Video: 9. Transaction Costs
- Video: 10. Implicit Transaction Costs
- Video: 11. Implementation Shortfall
- Reading: Is the market microstructure of stock markets important?
- Discussion Prompt: Liquidity
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Spectacular course, very detailed and informative but also interesting and attention grabbing. Thanks you!
Highly mathematical, concepts and numericals were thoroughly tested in quizzes
Its a very nice course. This course is must for any one who wants to pursue career in trading. Professor's teaching methodology is really commendable. I would recommend you to take this course. Thank you Coursera.
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Some technical improvements can be made otherwise good