Stock Market Basics

Yes, you will be awarded with a certification from QuantInsti after successfully completing the online learning units.

No, there are no live or classroom sessions in the course. You can ask your queries on community and get responses from fellow learners and faculty members.

Yes, you can ask your queries related to the course on the community: https://quantra.quantinsti.com/community

Fast-speed internet connection and a browser application are required for this course. For best experience, use Chrome.

There is no admission criterion. You are recommended to go through the prerequisites section and be aware of skill sets gained and required to learn most from the course.

We respect your time, and hence, we offer concise but effective short-term courses created under professional guidance. We try to offer the most value within the shortest time. There are a few courses on Quantra which are free of cost. Please check the price of the course before enrolling in it. Once a purchase is made, we offer complete course content. For paid courses, we follow a 'no refund' policy.

Some of the course material is downloadable such as Python notebooks with strategy codes. We also guide you how to use these codes on your own system to practice further.

We focus on teaching these quantitative and machine learning techniques and how learners can use them for developing their own strategies. You may or may not be able to directly use them in your own system. Please do note that we are not advising or offering any trading/investment services. The strategies are used for learning & understanding purposes and we don't take any responsibility for the performance or any profit or losses that using these techniques results in.

Quantra environment is a zero-installation solution to get beginners to start off with coding in Python. While learning you won't have to download or install anything! However, if you wish to later implement the learning on your system, you can definitely do that. All the notebooks in the Quantra portal are available for download at the end of each course and they can be run in the local system just the same as they run in the portal. The user can modify/tweak/rework all such code files as per his need. We encourage you to implement different concepts learnt from different learning tracks into your trading strategy to make it more suited to the real-world scenario.

No. We provide you guidance on how to create strategy using different techniques and indicators, but no strategy is plug and play. A lot of effort is required to backtest any strategy, after which we fine-tune the strategy parameters and see the performance on paper trading before we finally implement the live execution of trades.

Lifetime access means that once you enroll in the course, you will have unlimited access to all course materials, including videos, resources, readings, and other learning materials for as long as the course remains available online. There are no time limits or expiration dates on your access, allowing you to learn at your own pace and revisit the content whenever you need it, even after you've completed the course. It's important to note that "lifetime" refers to the lifetime of the course itself—if the platform or course is discontinued for any reason, we will inform you in advance. This will allow you enough time to download or access any course materials you need for future use.

Majorly there are three different types of stocks based on market capitalisation: large cap stocks, mid cap stocks and small cap stocks. Large cap stocks are the stocks of companies with market capitalisation greater than 10 billion USD. Some large cap companies are Apple, Amazon and Microsoft. Mid cap stocks are the stocks of the companies with market capitalisation between 2 billion USD and 10 billion USD. Some mid cap companies are CBOE Holdings and Clover Health Investments. And small cap stocks are the stocks of the companies with market capitalisation of less than 2 billion USD. Some small cap companies are Cabot Microelectronics Corp. and Mercantile Bank Corp.

To buy stocks, you should have a trading account. Some of the brokers are Interactive Brokers, TD Ameritrade, Webull and Robinhood. By furnishing the required information, you can set up an account with a broker of your choice. You should do a thorough research to understand the fees and commission structure of the different brokers before you finalise them. You might also be required to link your bank account and make some minimum deposit in order to get your application processed. This deposit will be available for you to invest. Once your account is set up, as a beginner do a thorough research on the stock you want to buy and start with a small capital.

There is no one answer that fits all when it comes to which is the best stock to buy if you are a beginner. You should do a thorough research before buying any stock. Some people start with the large cap stocks, such as Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook. The large cap stocks are less volatile and are often believed to carry smaller risks.