Algorithmic Trading Fundamentals
Learn how algorithmic trading systems are structured, from market data and signals to orders, risk checks and evaluation, with a clear view of their limits.
The Executive Quant Technology Program helps leaders make sound decisions about quantitative research and financial technology. It covers how research moves from idea to production, how to read backtests critically, and how data, AI and architecture choices affect risk and cost. Guided exercises on historical data keep the material concrete, and the program ends with a technology strategy capstone presented for review.
8 phases · 32 lessons · 20-24 weeks. Curriculum preview; the final syllabus may change before enrollment opens.
Conduct a structured critical review of a historical backtest and write a findings memo
Assess a data and architecture plan for a research platform against risk and cost criteria
Present a technology strategy brief covering roadmap, controls and team structure
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Learn how algorithmic trading systems are structured, from market data and signals to orders, risk checks and evaluation, with a clear view of their limits.
Learn a structured process for designing trading strategies: forming hypotheses, defining rules, choosing data and evaluation criteria, and documenting research honestly.
Learn the foundations of financial data engineering: data types, schemas, SQL, ingestion, cleaning, corporate actions and reliable batch pipelines in Python.
Apply supervised and unsupervised machine learning to financial datasets using feature engineering, purged cross-validation and disciplined, leakage-aware evaluation.
Engineer LLM-based research agents that retrieve documents, call analytical tools and produce traceable financial research outputs with evaluation and guardrails built in.
Master end-to-end fintech architecture: ledgers, event sourcing, integrations, security, reliability, scalability, compliance-aware design and AI components.