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).
MB
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.
HS
The manner in which the professor taught the subject was just marvelous , hats off to the way of teaching .Made everything so simple . Brilliantly explained. Gained tons and tons of knowledge :)
AA
Instructor was extremely knowledgeable an conducted the whole lectures in a very understandable way while describing complex ideas in simplest of words.
AK
This course is really amazing for the beginners and the way everything is explained is really cool..Thanx for this amazing course ISB
PA
The exam in week three had values as answers that did not correspond with the questions. Otherwise a good overview of Piotroski. We have like to have seen more on the PEADs paper.
SS
I loved the overall course content. Basically the wrap up video I liked the most. Everything is beautifully explained in a simple fashion.
SS
The course was good and the strategy was explained very well. Though in the Quiz 3 some of the questions didn't match the answers how we were taught on the lectures.
KD
Very well explained and easy to understand course. Must one for those who are planning to start trading but don't have background
AR
The Course was very helping in understanding the different strategies being used in the market and many of the most commonly used terms.
A
Beautiful teaching.The videos are longer than in other courses but the teaching is so on point that you learn without realizing.
SV
Informative course, the assignment of grades for the respective quizzes seem out of proportion. Apart from that great course.
HJ
The course was very interesting and the faculty taught everything in a clear and crisp manner. I would suggest this course to everyone who are willing to pursue this field.
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Title and content are not related to each other. Wasted 5 hrs
I liked the content that was presented. There was some really good advice, like the importance of being disciplined in sticking to the algorithm you have designed. Unfortunately there was no detail at all about how to backtest, where to get data for backtesting, where to find research papers upon which to base an algorithm, etc. In other words, everything was kept at a very abstract level, and not enough detail was provided to actually do anything.
The course is excellent, but there is mistakes in quiz and the forum participation is null. Professor nor your staff reply the forums.
Content is okay but the structure of the course is not, with no script or slides the professor repeats himself so many times, also there are some broken links and there are wrong answers for some of the quizzes and there is no response from the professor for more than 3 YEARS.
Really disappointed with this course, I was excited to get the specialization, but if the rest of the courses are going to have the same professors with 0 interaction... waste of time
OK. Well, I reached week 2.
Week 1 is just one long introduction where you won't learn anything, except thtat there is a link to a debate hosted by the Booth School of Economics in Chicago about market efficiency.
I'm half of week 2, and there isn't much meat here either. The prof only states obvious facts like "it the academic paper you're analysing uses strategies not available in your country, you won't be able to use it". Well, does it need a coursera course to hear that ? So far, this course contains no hard data, just basic ideas about how an investment strategy could be implemented with limited resources. Note that the indian accent of the prof may render some words not understandable (and the subtitles are of no help there) This is a cheap course. I intend to continue as, if I'm patient, I still hope to get useful insights. I'll update my review if needed.
UPDATE : I reached the end. I confirm, this course is a joke. I'm serious, this is a joke. I hope it is ! (but not a really funny one) If you think you've learnt something from this course, I advise you NOT to invest in stocks! Do you really have time to spend listening to a guy who keeps repeating the same basic things about investing in stocks ? There is really almost no useful content and the worse issue is perhaps that there is not even an "algorithm" as the title promised. Just a formula that you can get on wikipedia. (hint: Look for Piotroski F-score)
I did not like the course content and especially the teaching methodology. The videos were too long and same stuff was being repetited
This course teaches how to derive trading strategies based on fundamental analysis from academic research. It is a very nice introduction to trading algorithms.
Too little content for a course
This is one of the best courses for learning basics about algorithms. there should be another course on implementation of algorithms using programming languages also!
Some exercises were misleading. Overall the content was clear but involved heavy repetition, can come directly to the point. The course seems to be a part of a set of courses so the promises made at the beginning of this one aren't completely fulfilled here.
Misleading title, this course is not an algorithmic trading course, it's a basic trading strategy course.
I expect to have a more realistic example rather than just a "theory".
Very well done course on the two strategies that I didn't know. Unluckily, the subtitles are not very precise, and in some cases it is necessary to listen more carefully, otherwise, just by reading, information may be difficult to interpret. In my personal opinion, the speaker has a very clear pronounce and it should not be that hard to transcript the words correctly.
I learnt a lot about market , efficient market , strategy any a lot .. The quiz gives me the real vive of learning and application of the things I learnt in this course .. So thank you ISB and Coursera ..
The course was very interesting and the faculty taught everything in a clear and crisp manner. I would suggest this course to everyone who are willing to pursue this field.
If only we had good teachers like this.
best time spent so far as per understanding,knowledge and explanation.
Best possible way of making it to the point.
Instructor was extremely knowledgeable an conducted the whole lectures in a very understandable way while describing complex ideas in simplest of words.
A lot of mistakes and incorrect usage of formulas in the Quiz sections. Videos are often rambling with no informative slides included. Not sure how this course was rated so high. Would not recommend.
Super beginner level....
complete waste of time