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Trading Basics

Name: Trading Basics
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This course is part of Trading Strategies in Emerging Markets Specialization.

Course Cost

Free course

Beginner

Skill Level

6 Hours

Self-paced lessons

This course cannot be purchased separately - to access the complete learning experience, graded assignments, and earn certificates, you'll need to enroll in the full Trading Strategies in Emerging Markets Specialization program. You can audit this specific course for free to explore the content, which includes access to course materials and lectures. This allows you to learn at your own pace without any financial commitment.

1,85,121 Enrolled

Ramabhadran Thirumalai

English

1,85,121 Enrolled

English

Ramabhadran Thirumalai

What you'll learn

Analyze and interpret financial statements effectively

Understand asset pricing theories and expected returns

Master market microstructure and order types

Implement efficient trading strategies

Skills you'll gain

Financial Analysis

Trading Strategy

Market Microstructure

Asset Pricing

Financial Statements

Risk Management

Portfolio Theory

Order Types

Trading Costs

Market Liquidity

This course includes:

3.7 Hours PreRecorded video

4 quizzes

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FullTime access

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There are 4 modules in this course

This comprehensive course equips students with fundamental knowledge of financial markets and trading. The curriculum covers financial statement analysis, asset pricing theories, and market microstructure. Students learn to analyze company performance, calculate expected returns, and understand various order types and trading costs. Through detailed examples and practical applications, participants develop essential skills for implementing trading strategies.

Basics of Financial Statements

Module 1 · 2 Hours to complete

This module provides a brief introduction to financial statements and various common filings. These are the most important sources for obtaining information regarding a company's performance. Most strategies are indeed based on financial statements. After completing this module you will be able to get the important details from the balance sheets.

Skills you'll gain

Financial Statement Analysis

Balance Sheet Reading

Income Statement Analysis

Cash Flow Analysis

Accounting Fundamentals

This course includes:

12 Videos

1 Assignments

1 Quizzes

1 Reading Materials

Financial Statement Analysis

Module 2 · 1 Hours to complete

The purpose of this module is to equip you with the skills required to identify accounting information required for building trading strategies. After completing this module you will be able to calculate the key financial ratios.

Skills you'll gain

Financial Ratios

Profitability Analysis

Activity Analysis

Solvency Assessment

DuPont Analysis

This course includes:

5 Videos

1 Assignments

1 Quizzes

1 Reading Materials

Asset pricing theories

Module 3 · 1 Hours to complete

Before you start trading, you should first be able to calculate the expected return from a stock. The expected return comes from various asset pricing models such as Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) and Fama-French Three Factor Model.

Skills you'll gain

Asset Pricing

Risk Analysis

Portfolio Theory

CAPM Implementation

Arbitrage Theory

This course includes:

9 Videos

1 Assignments

1 Quizzes

1 Reading Materials

Basics of Market Microstructure

Module 4 · 2 Hours to complete

This module will provide a detailed introduction to the actual functioning of asset markets. The module will cover essential details such as type of players in the market, different type of orders and the efficient ways and opportune time to execute them, trading costs and ways of minimizing them, the concept of liquidity.

Skills you'll gain

Order Types

Market Structure

Trading Costs

Liquidity Analysis

Order Execution

This course includes:

11 Videos

1 Assignments

1 Quizzes

1 Reading Materials

Fee Structure

Individual course purchase is not available - to enroll in this course with a certificate, you need to purchase the complete Professional Certificate Course. For enrollment and detailed fee structure, visit the following: Trading Strategies in Emerging Markets Specialization

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Ramabhadran Thirumalai

Professor Ramabhadran S. Thirumalai is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Indian School of Business (ISB), where he focuses on critical issues related to pre-trade transparency in equity markets, arbitrage trading between individual stock futures and underlying stocks, and trading frictions faced by retail and institutional investors. He teaches courses on Derivatives and Security Markets at ISB. His academic background includes a Ph.D. in Finance and Mathematics from Indiana University, an MS in Statistics from the University of South Carolina, and a BE (Honours) in Chemical Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science. His research interests extend to intraday stock return momentum and promoting share pledges in India. Professor Thirumalai has published extensively in reputable journals, contributing valuable insights into market microstructure and corporate finance. His work aims to enhance understanding of the dynamics within financial markets, making significant contributions to both academic literature and practical applications in finance.

Beginner

Skill Level

6 Hours

Self-paced lessons

Course Cost

Free course

Completion

CERTIFICATE

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Trading Basics

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Get a Completion Certificate

Get a Completion Certificate

Top companies offer this course to their employees

There are 4 modules in this course

Basics of Financial Statements

Skills you'll gain

This course includes:

Financial Statement Analysis

Skills you'll gain

This course includes:

Asset pricing theories

Skills you'll gain

This course includes:

Basics of Market Microstructure

Skills you'll gain

This course includes:

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