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We have helped thousands of students all over the world with our courses.
We’re always adding new material – and you’ll get lifetime access to all the content: videos, code and more!
After successfully passing the course you will receive a certificate of completion that you can show to employers.
What You Get
Increase Your Salary
Make More Money From Your Investments
Level Up Your Skills
Create Projects You Can Use or Add to Your Resume
Registration Closes
January 20, 2021
Course Starts
January 27, 2021
Course Length
12 Weeks (Excluding Holiday Breaks)
Effort
8-11 Hours Per Week, Self Paced Learning
Class Schedule
Every Wednesday at 8pm EST (5pm PDT)
Lecture Duration
1 Hour Per Week, Live Over Zoom
Week 1: Course Introduction
Week 2: Python Refresher
Week 3: Introduction to Pandas
Week 4: Pandas in Finance
Week 1: Working With Stock and Economic Data
Week 2: Statistics With Financial Data
Week 3: Financial Metrics
Week 4: Backtesting Your Investment Strategies
Week 1: Introduction Algorithmic Trading
Week 2: Connecting to a Broker’s API and Trading
Week 3: Simple Trading Algorithms
Week 4: A More Difficult Trading Algorithm
Project 1: Analyzing Investment Strategies
In this project you will download and analyze financial data, then use that data to backtest an investment strategy. This will allow you to see how a specific investment strategy would have performed in the past, using historical data and risk/return metrics.
Project 2: Building a Live Trading Robot
For this project, you will create a trading robot that will automatically buy and sell stocks based on your predefined criteria. Students will have the freedom to create their own bot to trade on the signals that they prefer, including economic data, company financial data and more.
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR:
Robert has spent most of his career managing software teams on Wall Street and at various software startups.
He’s taught thousands of students in computer
programming and finance both in person and online.
In college, he received his Masters of Finance from a top business school and used to teach finance to classrooms with over 100 students each.
Robert has been programming computers for over 20 years using many different languages including Python, JavaScript, C, C++, Ruby on Rails and more.
What You Get
More than 2,500 students have taken our Python courses.
A practical approach to coding and finance. The instructor makes you think deep about where the data is arriving from, how to use it, and where to get it.
A real resume-worthy course that won’t go away for a while.
This course will get your foot on the door! It works as a guide for the those new to the development world, helps you build knowledge and helps you decide what to focus on after you are done.
Loved this course! Robert was able to help get my trading algorithm working and it’s been
making me money every day!
This was a great course! The instructor was very clear, explained the topics well, and went over some very interesting concepts.
I learned a lot about how to make better investment decisions using Python and Pandas.