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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    INR 1000yesIIT Kanpur

    The fees for the course Advanced Algorithmic Trading and Portfolio Management is :

    Fees componentsAmount
    Exam feesRs. 1,000

    The Syllabus

    • Introduction to R Programming
    • R Fundamentals
    • Basic mathematical and logical operations with R
    • Working with different data-types in R
    • Wrangling with data frames
    • Exploratory data analysis and data visualization with R.

    • Introduction to Portfolio Construction
    • Risk-return framework in financial markets
    • Risk diversification with portfolios
    • Portfolio optimization in mean-variance framework
    • Concept of market risk and beta
    • Portfolio Possibility curve
    • Efficient frontier
    • Minimum Variance portfolios
    • Introduction to risk-free lending and borrowing

    • Asset Pricing Models
    • Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
    • Capital Market Line
    • Security Market Line
    • Fallings of CAPM
    • Single-Index and Multi-Index models
    • Expected Risk and Return with Index models
    • 3-Factor Fama-French Model

    • Portfolio Management and Performance Evaluation
    • Portfolio Management strategies
    • Active vs Passive Portfolio Management
    • Value vs Growth investing
    • One-parameter performance measures Timing & Selection performance measures
    • Application of asset pricing models in performance management

    • Introduction to Algorithmic Trading
    • Technical analysis and trend determination
    • Dow Theory
    • Moving averages
    • Momentum indicators
    • Classical price patterns.

    • Advanced time-series regression algorithms
    • ARMA/ARIMA models
    • Mean reverting trading strategies with vector error correction models and cointegration
    • Model risk management
    • Back testing
    • Model validation
    • Stress testing with R

    • Advanced time-series algorithms for financial risk-management
    • Value-at-risk
    • Expected Shortfall
    • ARCH/GARCH models
    • Omplementation with R

    • Advanced topics
    • Alternative versions of CAPM
    • Delineating Efficient Frontier
    • Performance Evaluation with Multi-index models
    • Portfolio construction
    • Optimization
    • Back-testing
    • Visualization with R

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