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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Trading Basics by Indian School of Business

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    About the Course

    The purpose of this course is to equip you with the knowledge required to comprehend the financial statements of a company and understand
    the various transactions that take place in the stock market so that you can replicate the strategies discovered by the extant academic
    literature. The first part of the course provides a brief introduction to financial statements and various common filings of firms. You will learn
    how to obtain information regarding a company's performance from them and use the information to build trading strategies. Next, you are
    taught basic asset pricing theories so that you will be able to calculate the expected returns of a stock or a portfolio. Finally, y...
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    Jun 20, 2020

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    The tutor has clearly explained various concept of trading, investment and risk with examples. I have learned about finance ratio, cost, financial statement and trading.

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    May 17, 2020

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    The course was taught in a really nice way with all the math presented clearly. The professor made sure that the topics were easy and at the same time relevant.

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    By Nick N

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    Sep 6, 2020

    This course is very robotic, superficial, and lazily produced. I have taken multiple courses on this platform and I can say, without a doubt, this is the worst one I have come across. The videos are exceptionally boring, and consist of the speaker simply staring at the camera reading off of a teleprompter the entire time, every time.

    While the course (attempts to) covers simply the basics, I would recommend watching YouTube videos and reading on sites such as investopedia.com for a better understanding of trading.

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    By Nishant Z

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    Jul 5, 2020

    The concepts were explained in a hurry and not in detail, more time should have been spent on the concepts. There were a lot of discrepancies between the speech and the slides shown such as in some cases the number did not match. Also in certain quiz, the options available did not match the correct solution of the given questions, and end the of the quiz i could see a proper feedback where i analyze where i went wrong.

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    By Kartik S

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    Jan 2, 2018

    It takes more than one go at a video to comprehend, the teaching pace is very fast, the quizzes don't show where we went wrong and incorrect video editing/cutting skips some concepts.

    The course is useful somewhat but needs a lot of improvement in terms of making students understand. Also, active participation in the discussion forum is healthy and appreciated from mentors.

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    By Suryansh C

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    Dec 3, 2020

    Multiple topics have not been explained in the depth required by the quizes. Numericals that should have been available through excel are being narrated by the instructor which is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. I feel like this even demeans my country.the way things are taught in my country. It's just sad.

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    By Noor A

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    Jul 31, 2020

    the course content is great and so are the instructors but the course is so poorly designed and poorly maintained and without any updates it is just a bad course I struggled a lot and thought if I was dumb to pass this course but I was wrong finally I made it through the discussion forum thanks to them!

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    By SASWAT P

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    Jul 23, 2020

    Although the videos are very informative, the quiz has a lot of bugs. Even if I mark all answers right, the score is stuck at 60%. There are a lot of complaints in the forum but there has been no response from the team. Even after you attempt a quiz, you will not be able to see the feedback.

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    By Saurabh P

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    May 18, 2020

    The course is not about trading at all. In 3 chapters teacher taught us to read financial statements and ratios which is not a part of technical analysis. In the last chapter teaching about types of order is very bad. No introduction to technical analysis at all.

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    By Vaibhav K

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    Jun 15, 2020

    In Week 4 a lot of things were covered but the quiz was from last 2 videos completely when there were a total of 11-12 videos. Also, this course looks more of an investment course in first 2 weeks, then it looks like a trading course in last 2 weeks.

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    By Sharad K L

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    Mar 25, 2024

    This is my initial rating after Week 2. There are many silly mistakes in the slides. Also while defining P/E ratio, numerator and denominators are interchanged. This is not expected from ISB professor.

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    By Joel J

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    Mar 12, 2020

    The material was interesting, but I found the lack of feedback on quizzes, the lack of a downloadable spreadsheet, and the apparent error on the bid-ask values on quiz 4 to be frustrating.

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    By Gagandeep s

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    Jun 19, 2020

    Week 2 quiz contain many faluse, and week 3 study material is not proper in manner and there is poor understanding of week 3. And overall this course is good but contains to muny faluse.

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    By Gaurav K

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    Dec 1, 2020

    very poor explanation of week 3 topics i.e models of asset pricing, too many mistakes in week 4 slides and overall very boring teaching methodology. however topic selection is good.

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    By Yerra V S N S S

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    Jun 20, 2020

    Content is good but the presenter (/teacher) was just reading the content from seeing it on a screen or something.It was not at all good.But the content kept me going.

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    By Senthil M P

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    Apr 15, 2020

    The slides and the content read out do not match few times and the learner needs to listen and follow the instructor closely to avoid misinterpretation of information.

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    By Laila T

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    Aug 12, 2022

    While learning the calculations and terms is very valuable, I found the format lacked engagement and background information as well as context on the formulas given.

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    Jul 28, 2020

    A rare poor experience from doing a course on Coursera. Easily the worst instructor I've ever had here in my many years of using this platform. Not recommended.

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    By Juan D A

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    Nov 26, 2021

    In the Week 3, examples with clear figures were lacking

    In the final exam of the week 4, the questions did not match the answers and the answers were swapped

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    By Subham K

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    Nov 15, 2019

    The quiz questions were very difficult and different as taught in the videos.The topics should be taught with good examples not the bookish language.

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    By Gagan M

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    Jul 18, 2020

    The coach read the slides and did not explain the reasoning behind the calculations. The quiz were also not very interesting except the last one.

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    By Humberto J G G

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    May 25, 2020

    Weeks three and four lack explanations! Very hard to understand unless you have previous knowledge of the subject. Quizzes lack feedback!

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    By Traveler e

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    Jun 7, 2021

    they never bother to answer student inquiries and from week three the course is not well explained and i tell now couldn't understand it

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    By O A

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    May 16, 2022

    Quiz answer errors and missing/error links for additional support materials. No answers by educators for participant forum questions

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    By Nitish G

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    Jul 16, 2020

    I felt like I am reading a university textbook that states definitions and formulae without explaining anything or giving insights

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    By Renil K

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    Sep 8, 2020

    the first 2 weeks were extremely basic, and the last 2 weeks were quite a huge step up with respect to the level of difficulty

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    By Rodolfo E G

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    Nov 1, 2020

    I would prefer to have concrete formulas instead of read value per value in a in an specific example. it was a waste of time

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