Design your own trading strategy – Culminating Project
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About this course: In the culminating project, you will develop new trading strategies, evaluate them using the tools learned in the course, integrate them with the existing portfolio and also develop a plan to start a hedge fund.
Who is this class for: This course is primarily aimed at individual investors and money managers who want to gain the skills required to develop their own trading strategies and make money using them
Created by: Indian School of Business-
Taught by: Ramabhadran Thirumalai, Assistant Professor
Indian School of Business

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When you enroll for courses through Coursera you get to choose for a paid plan or for a free plan .
- Free plan: No certicification and/or audit only. You will have access to all course materials except graded items.
- Paid plan: Commit to earning a Certificate—it's a trusted, shareable way to showcase your new skills.
About this course: In the culminating project, you will develop new trading strategies, evaluate them using the tools learned in the course, integrate them with the existing portfolio and also develop a plan to start a hedge fund.
Who is this class for: This course is primarily aimed at individual investors and money managers who want to gain the skills required to develop their own trading strategies and make money using them
Created by: Indian School of Business-
Taught by: Ramabhadran Thirumalai, Assistant Professor
Indian School of Business
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WEEK 1
Week 1 - Learner's Introduction
In this module, you will introduce yourself to the other learners. You can exchange ideas and learn from one another.
1 item expand
- Discussion Prompt: Introduction
WEEK 2
Week 2 - Strategy
In this module you will go through the paper based on 'Pairs Trading' strategy and understand the details of the strategy completely. You will also identify the sector and related sector on which you want to base your strategy.
4 videos, 2 readings expand
- Reading: Pairs Trading: Performance of a relative value arbitrage rule - 1
- Peer Review: Part a - Pairs Trading Strategy
- Video: How to read an academic paper - a
- Video: How to read an academic paper - b
- Video: How to read an academic paper - c
- Video: How to read an academic paper - Abstract
- Reading: How to read and get the most out of a journal article
WEEK 3
Week 3 - Data Collection
In this module you will gather the data required to design the strategy. You will pick a pair in the chosen sector and one more pair in the related sector to implement the strategy.
1 reading expand
- Reading: Pairs Trading: Performance of a relative value arbitrage rule - 2
- Peer Review: Part b - Data Collection
WEEK 4
Week 4 - Strategy Rules
In this module you will formulate the rules required to trade the strategy and execute the strategy.
3 videos, 1 reading expand
- Reading: Pairs Trading: Performance of a relative value arbitrage rule - 3
- Peer Review: Part c - Trading rules
- Video: Piotroski F-Score : Implementation - a
- Video: Piotroski F-Score : Implementation - b
- Video: Piotroski F-Score : Wrap up
WEEK 5
Week 5 - Strategy Evaluation
In this module, you will evaluate the strategy that you had designed. For this purpose you will make use of various performance measures discussed in the course.
3 videos expand
- Peer Review: Part d - Performance Evaluation
- Video: Measuring portfolio or fund returns
- Video: Benchmarks for portfolio performance evaluation
- Video: Alternate performance measures
WEEK 6
Week 6 - Grading Rubric
In this final module, you will use the grading rubric to evaluate the projects submitted by the other learners.
Graded: Pairs trading Culminating project
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