Algorithmic Trading Fundamentals
Master the art of automated trading. Learn to build indicators, create conditions, design strategies, backtest your ideas, and deploy to live markets.
What You'll Learn
- Understand the fundamentals of algorithmic trading and how automated systems work
- Build trading indicators using technical, fundamental, and alternative data sources
- Create trading conditions that convert data into actionable buy/sell signals
- Design complete trading strategies combining indicators, conditions, and actions
- Backtest and evaluate strategy performance using industry-standard metrics
- Deploy strategies to live markets with proper risk management
Course Content
Module 1: Introduction
- Algorithmic Trading Explained: What Every Retail Investor Should Know
- Pre-Assessment: What Do You Know?
Module 2: Building Blocks - Indicators
- What is a Trading Indicator?: The Building Blocks of Algorithmic Trading
- What Are Technical Analysis Indicators?: Mean reversion vs momentum
- Reading: Technical Indicators
- Optional: Fidelity Technical Guide
- Create Your First Indicators: Create SMA & RSI Indicators
- Quiz: Technical Indicators
- What Are Fundamental Indicators?: Understanding a Company's Financial Health
- Reading: Financial Statements
- Quiz: Fundamental Indicators
- What Are Alternative Data Sources?: Economic Indicators, Sentiment Data & More
- Quiz: Alternative Data Sources
Module 3: Conditions & Actions
- How to Use Indicators to Build Conditions: Turning data into trading signals
- Trading Conditions Explained: The Second Building Block of Algo Trading
- Create Your First Conditions: Create SMA Crossover & RSI Conditions
- Trading Actions Explained: Buy, Sell, Rebalance & Notifications
- Quiz: Trading Conditions
Module 4: Building Strategies
- What is a Trading Strategy?: Putting It All Together
- Quiz: Trading Strategies
- Build Your First Strategy: Create a Complete Trading Strategy
Module 5: Testing & Evaluation
- What Makes a Trading Strategy Good?: Benchmarks, Sharpe Ratio & Drawdown
- What is Backtesting?: How to Test Your Trading Strategy
- Optional: Backtesting Deep Dive
- Run Your First Backtests: Buy & Hold + Beat SPY Challenge
- Quiz: Backtesting Concepts
- What is Strategy Optimization?: And How to Avoid Overfitting
- Reading: Genetic Algorithms
- Reading: Mathematically Improve Your Strategy
- Quiz: Strategy Optimization
Module 6: Deployment
- Recap: From Building Blocks to Deployment: Review everything you've learned
- Deploy Your First Trading Strategy: From Paper Trading to Real Money
- Reading: Paper Trading
- Deploy Your Strategy: Connect brokerage & go live
- Final Reflection: How Much Have You Learned?: Compare your answers to the pre-assessment
- Get Your Certificate: Download your completion certificate