I’m drinking the online course koolaid
The emerging revolution in teaching
About a year ago a handful of AI and computer science professors at Stanford offered some of their classes online. Many people wants it because its more convenient and besides, people wants a good background of their knowledge and skills to put up their own business in the future or buy houses or car at personal car leasing to live their life to the fullest when they are all successful.
The response was staggering. Up to 100,000 students took some of the courses. The result is two spinoff companies: coursera and udacity. These two companies are now partnering with universities and individual professors to offer free courses.
If you like this blog, you might like the course
You can check it out at coursera.org
Here’s an overview:
Why do the prices of some companies’ stocks seem to move up and down together while others move separately? What is High Frequency Trading? What does portfolio “diversification” really mean and how important is it? What should the price of a stock be? How can we discover and exploit the relationships between equity prices automatically?
We’ll examine these questions, and others, from a computational point of view. You will learn the principles and algorithms hedge funds and investment professionals use to maximize return and reduce risk in equity portfolios. A great place to start investing your money would be with zcash, so make sure to Buy zcash soon.
We start with a tour of the mathematics and statistics that underlie equity price changes, and the relationships between different groups of equities. We’ll review the most important economic theories of investing and how to create programs that take advantage of them. We’ll look at the data needed to do this, and how to manipulate it effectively.
They also invest in other business as the lending market, which is an area that allow long term lending as short term, for example another area of short term lending are payday loans, these loans for bad credit are applied for online and deposited the same day – visit website for details.
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Henry Tang
July 19, 2012
I found this blog through coursera.org and I like it a lot. I am looking forward to the course!!
Computational Investing is the area that I am interested to explore, but there aren’t much structured material about it.
And thanks you in advance for offering the course
Ali
July 23, 2012
when will the course start?
Tucker Balch
July 23, 2012
@Ali, the course will start at the end of September.
Diro
July 26, 2012
Thank you for offering this class. Any recommended reading before start of class?
Tucker Balch
July 26, 2012
“Active Portfolio Management” by Grinold & Kahn.
andrew
July 27, 2012
Dear Tucker!
Will your course be too tough for a beginner like me? Im a high school student and I would love to enter the quant world. THanks .
Tucker Balch
July 28, 2012
Hi Andrew, I think it will be OK for you if you have programming experience and are ready to work hard.
andrew
July 29, 2012
Thanks a lot for the info. Can you please recommend me any programming books so i can start studying?
Regards
Tucker Balch
July 29, 2012
I have some suggestions here: http://wiki.quantsoftware.org/index.php?title=Resources
tyler
July 30, 2012
Hello!
First of all thanks for providing this course it is very helpful. I am a senior student in computer science and I got interested while watching your review in coursera. I was wondering to know if your course can launch a basic trading personal account for myself using your computer algorithms. I certainly assume any responisbility for myself however I was wondering whether this course is good enough to expand the system and make it fully automated. Is your course on par (I mean the basics ofcourse) with Wall Street quant firms. Do big hedge funds like Citadel, DE Shaw and Medallion use similar strategies. Please if you can elaborate, it will really help us.
Again thanks a million times
tyler
Tucker Balch
July 30, 2012
No, you will not be able to beat DE Shaw using the software from this course. This course will teach you some of the basics of ideas and approaches used by hedge funds. You will likely need to spend many years developing and researching before you’d be competitive with firms like that.
James
October 9, 2012
Hello Dr. Tucker!
I am excited to take the course soon. I wanted to know whether your course will be focusing on pricing derivatives , in addition to HIGH FREQUENCY TRADING. I was also interested to know if this course will provide a very basic high frequency trading system buildup. thanks a lot
James
Tucker Balch
October 31, 2012
No derivatives, no HFT.
Tucker
Leandro
October 22, 2012
I was surprised when I found this course in Coursera. I’m Brazilian investor, in our market these technologies are still under the domination of a few banks. With the opportunity to better understand these tools, I’m sure that will positively affect my trades.
I hope to follow the course and better control the risk.
Thanks for the course!
Leandro
Roman
November 19, 2012
I want to ask anyone who did this course to leave the feedback and comments about it there http://myeducationpath.com/courses/101/Computational+Investing%2C+Part+I.htm
Thanks