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Learning Track: Quantitative Trading for Beginners

34 hours
Take your first step to become a quant trader in a structured and hands-on manner. Get an introduction to quantitative trading, followed by Python trading training. Learn about machine learning for trading through real-market data examples of Options, Forex, Crypto, Equities and other asset classes. Implement algorithmic trading strategies using brokers such as Interactive Brokers.
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FOUNDATION to INTERMEDIATE
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QuantInsti®
NSE Academy
Interactive Brokers ®
FXCM
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Become a Quant Trader

Get a complete picture of the domain, including the what, how, why of algorithmic trading.
Explore Options trading strategy such as Bull-Call, Bear-Put, Protective Call, Protective Put and Iron Condor
Acquire Python coding skills to work with data structures to handle financial markets data and generate buy and sell trading signals.
Explore normal probability distribution, standard deviation and different types of volatility
Apply AI for trading stocks using different machine learning algorithms
Create and backtest momentum trading strategy using real Forex markets data in Python.
Track the status of your orders and your portfolio position on a real-time basis in Python. Practice questions to crack a quant interview.
Compute financial ratios such as return on equity, price to earnings, price to book value and analyze the long-term trend in revenue and PE ratio.
Fetch market and pricing data for stocks, stock indices, FX, Crypto and Futures.
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Quantitative Trading for Beginners

Need help? Write to us at quantra@quantinsti.com or call us at +91 8450963428.
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Discover Algorithmic Trading Without Any Barriers

At QuantInsti, our mission is to make algorithmic trading knowledge and technology accessible to everyone. Our vision is to empower individuals and institutions, enabling them to harness cutting-edge technology in financial markets, fostering growth and success. We offer comprehensive learning tracks, free fintech tools, hundreds of engaging webinars, and a vast repository of over 500 insightful blogs designed to equip aspiring traders with essential skills and resources.

For over 14 years, we've actively contributed as speakers and industry experts at academic and professional forums globally, helping shape the future of algorithmic trading. This free learning track exemplifies our commitment to accessibility and empowerment, helping you take your first step into the ever-evolving world of algorithmic trading. We appreciate you joining us on this exciting journey. Happy Learning!

Ready to Master Algorithmic Trading?

Elevate your trading skills with our comprehensive 'All Courses Bundle.' With 50 expertly designed courses organized into 8 specialized learning tracks, you'll gain a complete A-to-Z understanding of algorithmic trading strategies and techniques.

Course Features

  • Community
    Community

    Faculty Support on Community

  • Interactive Coding Exercises
    Interactive Coding Exercises

    Interactive Coding Practice

  • Capstone Project
    Capstone Project

    Capstone Project using Real Market Data

  • Trade & Learn Together
    Trade & Learn Together

    Trade and Learn Together

  • Get Certified
    Get Certified

    Get Certified

Prerequisites


None at all! This is a perfect combination of courses for beginners who have never coded or never traded in financial markets.

Syllabus

Python for Trading: Basic
Stock Market Basics
Introduction to Machine Learning for Trading
Options Trading Strategies In Python: Basic
Automated Trading with IBridgePy using Interactive Brokers Platform
Getting Market Data: Stocks, Crypto, News & Fundamental
Forex Trading using Python: Basics
Quant Interview Questions Preparation

about author

QuantInsti®
QuantInsti®
QuantInsti is the world's leading algorithmic and quantitative trading research & training institute with registered users in 190+ countries and territories. An initiative by founders of iRage, one of India’s top HFT firms, QuantInsti has been helping its users grow in this domain through its learning & financial applications based ecosystem for 10+ years.
NSE Academy
NSE Academy
The National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. (NSE) is the world's largest derivatives exchange by the number of contracts traded in 2019 and the leading stock exchange in India. NSE is a pioneer in technology and ensures the reliability and performance of its systems through a culture of innovation and investment in technology. NSE conducts financial education workshops through NSE Academy to develop new generation investors.
Interactive Brokers ®
Interactive Brokers ®
Interactive Brokers ® is a U.S. based brokerage firm founded in 1993. It is the largest electronic trading platform to trade equities, options and futures. Trader Workstation (TWS) supports over 60 order types, from the most basic limit order to advanced trading to the most complex algorithmic trading, to help you execute a wide variety of trading strategies. Best Online Broker 2019 and a Top Online Broker 1 for Nine Consecutive Years by Barron's. Get started by using a free demo account.
FXCM
FXCM
FXCM or Forex Capital Markets, acts as a retail broker for foreign exchange market, which was founded in 1999. It offers access to the global forex trading market, with intuitive platform options, including award-winning Trading Station. Their customer service team, one of the best in the industry, is available 24/5, wherever you are in the world.
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    More in Less Time

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  • Expert Faculty
    Expert Faculty

    Get taught by practitioners

  • Self-paced
    Self-paced

    Learn at your own pace

  • Data & Strategy Models
    Data & Strategy Models

    Get data & strategy models to practice on your own

User Testimonials

Mohsin Riaz
Mohsin Riaz
Chief Technology Officer at 360DTechSol, Pakistan
Well designed course for everyone interested in understanding the basics and interplay of Machine Learning and Trading.
Akkshay Singhi
Akkshay Singhi
Director at SumanTrad Invest, India
Great course to brush up on knowledge regarding Financial Markets.
Edward Hasekamp
Edward Hasekamp
Software Security Specialist, Hasecon, Netherlands
A nice overview to obtain extra data, and a good addition to the existing courses.
Francesco Torraco
Francesco Torraco
Financial Analyst, Italy
The Stock Market Basic course is quite good for beginners, although I had prior knowledge in this field, the course provided me with good revision of the basic concepts related to stock markets. The course covers almost everything you need to know at the beginner level. Overall the course is very complete and rich in content. I look for useful resources online to learn more in the financial markets domain, and I have found Quantra to be a very good player in this field. Keep up the good work.
Ravi Chandra Vattem
Ravi Chandra Vattem
Senior Manager, Life Insurance Operations, India
The content given in the course is excellent. Although I was quite familiar with the concepts I still found the explanation of the concepts to be interesting, it was a good revision for me. There are downloadable codes provided towards the end of the course. For a non-technical guy like me, I found it very useful, as I can now practice and experiment with the codes to get comfortable with Python.
Anshumn Sagar
Anshumn Sagar
Delivery Manager at DWP Global Corp Pvt Ltd, India
Simple and easy explanations and a walkthrough of the high-level, and required IBridgePy functions.
Tiruselven Amirthasamy Pather
Tiruselven Amirthasamy Pather
Financial Analyst at Velcan Holdings, Mauritius
That was a great introductory course, highly informative and well-laid.
Mehamood Pathan
Mehamood Pathan
Stress Engineer, Safran Group, Germany
I have been using Python for the first time, the way the material is draft is perfect for first-timers.
Sai Sampath Karumudi
Sai Sampath Karumudi
System Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services, India
Before taking this course, I thought I knew a lot about Options and Futures. But after going through the course material, I got to many things which I was unaware of and was glad that I came to know about them before I started trading in Options.
Rubén Martínez Fanals
Rubén Martínez Fanals
Financial Manager, Panama
Good introduction on using an API to trade with Interactive Brokers.
Augustine Ikenwa
Augustine Ikenwa
Software Developer, Nigeria
The course is quite informative for algorithm trading newbies though it was a short course.
Azeem Shaikh
Azeem Shaikh
Broadcast Designer at CNBC-TV18, India
Definitely worthy for beginners. I would also recommend it to professionals as it has some modules which I think many traders are not known to. Excellent, thanks Quantra!
Eeshwar Dutt Nirmal
Eeshwar Dutt Nirmal
Student at IIT Delhi, India

Helpful course.

Christos Gklinavos
Christos Gklinavos
Greece
An excellent introductory course that covers important concepts of python for trading. The structure is carefully designed so that it guides you step by step to more difficult subjects. The Jupiter notebooks and quizzes are very helpful and help you build on concepts previously taught. I have searched the web and I haven't found another course that is so straightforward, well organized and explanatory. And all of these for free! Well done!!
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Mario Chacón
France
My expectations were to go on a learning platform with interactive content to understand iBridgePy and how to use it properly, so I can save myself time and quickly backtest strategies and do automatic trading, which was fully met in the iBridgePy course. I found the quizzes very helpful and the videos very well done, providing me with the proper information to reach my goal as soon as possible. I was able to backtest everything I needed and also do the simulated trading of my strategies for the next step in the project. Quantra definitely has good content because of the sequence and teaching pedagogy.
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Megan Lester
Student at University of Bristol, United Kingdom

One of the most useful concepts I learned was about modules and packages, particularly Numpy and Pandas. The course did a fantastic job of introducing these packages, how to import them, and the correct syntax to use.

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Bahram Khazra
United States
IBridgePy is extremely user-friendly in a way that I managed to learn how to run a simple strategy in a few hours. The course explained the concept in the shortest possible way and left no room for questions.
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Abdulmumeen Ameen
United Kingdom
I expected that the course would introduce me to the stock markets in the simplest form, which surpassed my own expectations as the course summarized important points through short videos. I learned many new things, one of which was the ‘Central Depository Service’, which I’d never heard of prior to taking this course.
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Rahul Madhogaria Madhogaria
Investment Advisor, CITI Bank, UAE
I found the course content to be amazing. It was better than my expectations. The interactive exercises are very good. There is a structure in place to help a non-coder learn python, which I feel is great. The integrated Jupyter notebook is also a very good feature, it made life very easy, as I could tweak the codes and see the changes on the go.
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Maxim Vasilevskiy
Russia
Because I wanted to improve my knowledge in the field of obtaining and processing financial data. In my opinion, the course helped me very well with this, it contains a lot of useful information, as well as useful links to third-party resources. In addition, I want to learn algorithmic trading and I think this course is a great start for learning in this area.
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Gideon Wanjiru
Kenya
The course is quite engaging. The approach of learning at your own pace is good and convenient. The code is well written and the explanation for each piece of code is very understandable. Looking forward to continuing upscaling the knowledge.
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Loay Labani
Country Digitization Leader at Cisco System, Saudi Arabia
Good foundation pre-beginning the course. the language and animation make it easy to absorb.
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Vaibhav Jain
Student at NIT, India
The course was very informative, I learned some fundamental things like hedging and put-call parity. I did not face any difficulties while doing the course. The videos were short and explanatory. Even my experience of Jupyter notebooks was great. I used it extensively by changing the codes on the go. All in all my experience was very good, the course was great.
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Neha Malik
India
Great and informative course for a newcomer. each terminology related to the subject is explained.
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Aviraj Singh Mehta
India
I was looking for courses online for the same, when I came across this free course ‘Getting Market Data: Stocks, Crypto, News & Fundamental’ on Quantra. I enrolled myself because I felt this course would serve my purpose. And I am glad it did. This course has helped me connect data from various data vendors. I did not face any difficulties understanding the codes because they were explained in the simplest way. Also, I had a small background in R language, so even that might have helped me understand the codes better. I really liked the platform, especially the Jupyter notebook which was seamless and easy to navigate. It allowed me to practice the codes on the go, without having to leave the platform.
 
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Ranga Chaitanya
India
This course is a complete package, everything that you need to learn about python is compiled in one place. The course design is quite user-friendly too. It also introduced me to Blueshift, through which I got a glimpse of scripting, backtesting the strategies, and placing orders in the markets.
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Asha Bhandari
Support Executive, India
I really liked and enjoyed doing the interactive exercises in this course, as this a very new concept for me, it really helped me learn and get comfortable with Python. The Interactive exercises have proper instructions, it also prompts you whenever you make an error while coding, so that you are aware of where you went wrong and can rectify the error. I also liked the step-by-step explanation of the Momentum based strategy while being implemented using Blueshift. This gave me great clarity on how python is practically used in the trading domain.
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Manuel Roldan
Accountant, Public Sector, Venezuela
This course is good to open the mind and know what to expect in the world of machine learning and data science for trading, what is needed to be successful and I liked the example of the interview.
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Alessandro Caloisi
Quant Analyst, Italy
I was searching for an automated option course online when I came across this course provided by Quantra. I think this is one of the few courses available online for Options Trading using Python. The teaching process in this course is original and everything is very clearly explained. I aim to program trading strategies for options by using a systematic and scientific method, by myself.
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Manual Roldan
Accountant, Public Sector, Venezuela
One thing that I really liked about this course is that it starts with a small introduction to the Trading Firm. It gave me great clarity on the importance of Python in Finance, especially trading. The course had a great presentation, especially the video units. I was initially very skeptical and scared of Programming, but slowly and steadily as I started to learn through this course, my fear of algorithms has reduced drastically. All this was possible only because of the fact that the course was easy to learn.
 
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Aljosa Aleksandrovic
Co - Founder, Arve Asset Management Company, Switzerland
What I absolutely liked about the course were the short 2-5 minutes videos that explained the theoretical part of the concepts. The downloadable codes were really helpful as I love to play around with the codes. I was really impressed with the Live Trading section integrated with Blueshift as it allows me to code, backtest, research, Paper Trade & Live trade all in one place. Overall this course is a great package of theory and practical elements of learning. Additionally, I was able to apply the concept of Support Vector Classifier to successfully identify the market as a Bull or Bear market. This course has definitely given me great research ideas to develop a strategy in the future.
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Renato Votto
Assistant Manager, Audit and Compliance, Ofgem, United Kingdom
Full of interesting contents and also real world examples and applications.
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Himanshu Kumar
Sr. Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft, India

Amazing course. The way implication of statistical calculations was explained is just awesome. I have never seen such explanation anywhere.

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Pablo Jimenez
Spain
In a couple of short videos, you will get to know all the main elements of the syntax in IBridgePy. Well-compiled course with good exercises as well, and for free. I am complementing this course for teaching the backtesting utilities that are also present in IBridgePy.
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Ian Fleming
Chile
I liked it, it is a good introduction to understand what you are getting into! :) Good job, thanks a lot.
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Victor Guerra
Spain
This course provides a very clear explanation of Forex basics and a useful example of how to implement strategies with backtesting capabilities in Python.
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Isaac Elijah
Head of ICT Deparment at Ibom Specialsit Hospital, Nigeria

The videos were well-explained. I loved, most especially, the coding aspect of the tutorial.

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Animesh Nanda
India

It was a nice mock test for preparing myself; what are the things I need to know before appearing for a quant interview.

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Mirko Carelli
Italy

Good course with many topics covered. Recommended to prepare for job interviews.

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