Trading Algorithms

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Trading Algorithms

This course is part of Trading Strategies in Emerging Markets Specialization

Instructor: Prasanna Tantri

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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1 week at 10 hours a week

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There are 4 modules in this course

This course covers two of the seven trading strategies that work in emerging markets. The seven include strategies based on momentum, momentum crashes, price reversal, persistence of earnings, quality of earnings, underlying business growth, behavioral biases and textual analysis of business reports about the company.

In the first part of the course, you will learn how to read an academic paper. What parts to pay attention to and what parts to skim through will be discussed here. For every strategy, first you will be introduced to the original research and then how to implement the strategy. The first strategy, Piotroski F -score will be discussed in detail. You will be taught how to calculate the F - Score and how to use this score in a strategy. This is followed by the next strategy, Post earnings announcement drift (PEAD).

After completing this module you will be able to understand what market efficiency means. You will be able to list different types of market efficiencies.

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2 videos2 readings2 assignments1 discussion prompt

After completing this module you will be able to read and understand an academic paper. You will know what are the important parts of a paper and how to build a trading strategy based on them.

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4 videos1 reading2 assignments

After completing this module you will understand the Piotroski F Score Strategy and the economic intuition behind it. You also be able to implement the trading strategy.

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5 videos1 reading1 assignment1 discussion prompt

5 videosTotal 75 minutes

Piotroski F-Score : Strategy - a16 minutes
Piotroski F-Score : Strategy - b15 minutes
Piotroski F-Score : Strategy - c19 minutes
Piotroski F-Score : Implementation - a12 minutes
Piotroski F-Score : Implementation - b12 minutes

1 readingTotal 60 minutes

Value Investing: The Use of Historical Financial Statement Information to Separate Winners from Losers60 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 75 minutes

Quiz 375 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 20 minutes

Financial Ratios20 minutes

In this module you will learn a strategy based on Post earnings announcement drift and will be able to implement it.

What's included

4 videos1 reading2 assignments1 discussion prompt

4 videosTotal 49 minutes

Piotroski F-Score : Wrap up6 minutes
Post Earnings Announcement Drift (PEAD) - a15 minutes
Post Earnings Announcement Drift (PEAD) - b13 minutes
Wrap up15 minutes

1 readingTotal 60 minutes

An Empirical Evaluation of Accounting Income Numbers60 minutes

2 assignmentsTotal 56 minutes

Quiz 440 minutes
Practice Quiz16 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 20 minutes

Short Selling20 minutes

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Prasanna Tantri

Indian School of Business

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A very good course for beginners as well as someone with intermediate knowledge in marketing. Thoroughly explained and brilliant, sensible questions providing insight to the course.

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Beautiful teaching.The videos are longer than in other courses but the teaching is so on point that you learn without realizing.

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This course teaches how to derive trading strategies based on fundamental analysis from academic research. It is a very nice introduction to trading algorithms.

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