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This course is part of Trading Strategies in Emerging Markets Specialization
Instructor: Prasanna Tantri
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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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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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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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In this module you will learn a strategy based on Post earnings announcement drift and will be able to implement it.
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Reviewed on Jul 21, 2017
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.
Reviewed on Apr 26, 2021
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!
Reviewed on Feb 4, 2021
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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