Syllabus
Unit 1
Structure of financial markets-financial instruments-stock price models-asset returns-modern portfolio theorycapital asset pricing model-relative value and factor models -Trading terminology-long and short positions-cost of trading – backtesting-pairs trading and mean reversion-statistical arbitrage-trend following- trending in multiple frequencies.
Unit 2
Measuring business cycles- The Hodrick – Prescott filter – Baxter– King filter – Technical Analysis – Indicators –Oscillators- Signal to noise ratio – Sine wave indicator – Instantaneous trend line – Identifying market modes– Transform arithmetic – FIR – IIR – Removing lag – Adaptive moving averages – Ehlers filters.
Unit 3
Measuring market spectra – optimum predictive filters – Adapting standard indicators- High frequency tradingDesigning profitable trading system.