Online Courses and Study Resources for Quantitative Finance
Summary
The document collects suggestions for learning quantitative finance online, with an emphasis on free or lower-cost study. The original question names material on financial engineering, option pricing, Monte Carlo methods, and MIT OpenCourseWare, while noting that these resources vary in depth and may not form a complete program. Responses add a video playlist, a trading algorithms specialization, university certificate programs, and introductory courses covering Python for trading and quantitative strategies.
The topics mentioned include programming, economics, machine learning, time-series methods, volatility models, options, derivatives, and strategy implementation. The evidence consists of personal recommendations and descriptions rather than a systematic comparison of syllabi, costs, prerequisites, or learning outcomes. Some respondents had not taken the courses they recommended, and course listings, prices, and availability can change. The document is therefore useful as a starting point for building a study shortlist, but learners should verify current details and assess whether a resource matches their background and goals.
Key ideas
- The suggested resources range from standalone lectures and playlists to certificates and course specializations.
- Topics include Python, options, Monte Carlo methods, time series, volatility models, and trading algorithms.
- Several recommendations are personal impressions rather than evaluated course comparisons.
- Course availability, pricing, coverage, and prerequisites should be checked for current accuracy.
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# Free or Relatively Less Pricey Quant Finance courses online # Free or Relatively Less Pricey Quant Finance courses online I am trying to figure out what all online Quant Finance courses are out there which are free or relatively less pricey? - CQF is not less pricey - Financial Engineering course on Coursera - Not so great unless you are a very basic learner - Option Pricing course on EDX - I found it to be good. - MIT Open Courseware videos - pretty good. - Monte Carlo Methods in Finance - This was hosted on some MOOC platform in 2014. Pretty interesting for beginners But most of the above ones except CQF is not a full fledged course which 1 can pursue. In today's world of MOOC's there are so many Data Science specializations out there but I don't see any on Quantitative Finance/Stochastic Calculus/Derivatives Modelling etc. courses out there. Does anybody have any idea if any such courses are available or maybe about to be available? Thanks a lot. ## Answer by FX_NINJA (score 4, accepted) https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/30090 Just an update on my playlist, It has 33 videos now, roughly 3x more vids. I have included some more general economics and machine learning and programming vids, which have relevant applications in Q finance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXFNpDcYOxM&list=PLqMiStH7exaXmQqV7y-tg68f2ZYZK3Yur ## Answer by FX_NINJA (score 3) https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/29975 I have a playlist on youtube I made and will continue updating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXFNpDcYOxM&list=PLqMiStH7exaXmQqV7y-tg68f2ZYZK3Yur ## Answer by Deb (score 2) https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/30323 This is a Specialization course on Trading Algorithms. I haven't taken the course, but it seems good. https://www.coursera.org/specializations/trading-strategy ## Answer by T Ak Y-amada (score 2) https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/31362 These certificates at UW are excellent and I highly recommend them.UW CFRM certificate ## Answer by Ishan Shah (score 0) https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/48743 A free course to learn quant finance is: Python for Trading A very basic and free course on Python programming. It includes everything a beginner needs to know: data structures, expressions, functions and various libraries used in financial markets. This is a detailed and comprehensive course to build a strong foundation in Python. The less pricey quant finance course is: Quantitative Strategies and Models This course for those starting their journey in quantitative trading. It includes Time Series Analysis, ARIMA GARCH models and implementation of Options and Derivatives. You will learn to think quantitatively and to create different trading strategies in Python.
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