Your Guide to Business Analysis Tools for 2025
January 29, 2025
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Instructor: Bekhruzbek Ochilov, MCSI, PAGRC
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Familiarity with Google Sheets (basic formulas as SUM, IF, AVERAGE), Familiarity with normal distributions
(654 reviews)
Recommended experience
Beginner level
Familiarity with Google Sheets (basic formulas as SUM, IF, AVERAGE), Familiarity with normal distributions
Calculate stock returns using stock price historical data
Calculate the average return of a stock and its volatility
Use Sharpe and Sortino Ratios to calculate risk-adjusted stock performance
Use Sharpe and Sortino Ratios to compare performances of different stocks
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In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to compare the performance of different securities using financial statistics (normal distributions) and the Google Sheets toolkit to decide which one performed the best in terms of risk-to-return (risk-to-reward) metrics. This will teach you how basic risk management using quantitative analysis is done and is applied in calculating mean returns of the stock, variance, standard deviation, the Sharpe ratio, and Sortino Ratio.
Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We're currently working on providing the same experience in other regions. This course's content is not intended to be investment advice and does not constitute an offer to perform any operations in the regulated or unregulated financial market.
In a video that plays in a split-screen with your work area, your instructor will walk you through these steps:
Preparing the data
Calculating mean returns and variance
Calculating Sharpe Ratio
Calculating Sortino Ratio
Visualizing the outcomes and drawing conclusions
Familiarity with Google Sheets (basic formulas as SUM, IF, AVERAGE), Familiarity with normal distributions
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Reviewed on Jul 25, 2020
This is my first time using the Rhyme software. I was a great experience.
Reviewed on Sep 23, 2020
Could've explained more about implication of the ratios in stock performance, was expecting a more in-depth learning experience. But anyway good content.
Reviewed on May 26, 2020
Very good course with opportunity to learn the stock analysis basics
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