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Learn computational investing techniques for algorithmic trading. Understand how to develop and backtest trading strategies using programming languages.

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    Rice University

    Investment Strategies and Portfolio Analysis

    Skills you'll gain: Portfolio Management, Investment Management, Performance Measurement, Performance Analysis, Return On Investment, Investments, Financial Market, Financial Analysis, Risk Analysis, Benchmarking

    4.2
    Rating, 4.2 out of 5 stars
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    277 reviews

    Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    AI Business School

    Practical AI and prompting for finance professionals

    Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, Generative AI, Sales Enablement, Financial Forecasting, AI Personalization, Sales, AI Product Strategy, ChatGPT, Large Language Modeling, LLM Application, Artificial Intelligence, Finance, Brainstorming, Business Process Automation, Personalized Service, Risk Analysis, Ideation, Content Creation, Business Transformation, Innovation

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Duke University

    Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Deep Dive

    Skills you'll gain: Lending and Underwriting, Blockchain, Commercial Lending, Derivatives, FinTech, Market Liquidity, Financial Trading, Securities (Finance), Digital Assets, Market Data, Transaction Processing, Asset Management, Portfolio Management, Risk Management

    4.9
    Rating, 4.9 out of 5 stars
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    299 reviews

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Duke University

    Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Primitives

    Skills you'll gain: Loans, FinTech, Payment Systems, Key Management, Cryptography, Digital Assets, Market Liquidity, Financial Trading, Transaction Processing

    4.9
    Rating, 4.9 out of 5 stars
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    445 reviews

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Google Cloud

    Fraud Detection on Financial Transactions with Machine Learning on Google Cloud

    Skills you'll gain: Fraud detection, Feature Engineering, Big Data, Anomaly Detection, Google Cloud Platform, Unsupervised Learning, Applied Machine Learning, Decision Tree Learning, Supervised Learning, Predictive Modeling, Machine Learning

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    Rating, 4 out of 5 stars
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    24 reviews

    Intermediate · Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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    University of Michigan

    Raising Capital: Credit Tech, Coin Offerings, and Crowdfunding

    Skills you'll gain: FinTech, Fundraising and Crowdsourcing, Banking Services, Financial Inclusion, Fundraising, Capital Markets, Blockchain, Credit Risk, Financial Services, Loans, Lending and Underwriting, Securities (Finance)

    4.7
    Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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    307 reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Packt

    The Complete DeFi—Decentralized Finance—Industry Labs

    Skills you'll gain: Financial Services, Application Deployment, Application Security

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    AI Business School

    AI agents and creator tools for finance professionals

    Skills you'll gain: Agentic systems, No-Code Development, Generative AI Agents, Digital Transformation, Business Process Automation, Automation, Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Finance, Application Design, Productivity Software, Application Development, Operational Efficiency

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Google Cloud

    Creating Generative Art Dynamic NFTs with Google Cloud Vertex AI and Chainlink Functions

    Skills you'll gain: Generative AI, Cloud Applications, Prompt Engineering, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Computing, Cloud API, Blockchain, Cloud Storage, Application Programming Interface (API), Application Deployment

    Intermediate · Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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    Coursera Instructor Network

    GenAI for Risk Management Essentials

    Skills you'll gain: Responsible AI, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Risk Management Framework, AI Product Strategy, Risk Management, Governance Risk Management and Compliance, Data Ethics, Business Risk Management, Compliance Management, Generative AI Agents, Risk Mitigation, Risk Analysis, Regulatory Compliance, Governance, Mitigation

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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In summary, here are 10 of our most popular computational investing courses

  • Investment Strategies and Portfolio Analysis: Rice University
  • Practical AI and prompting for finance professionals: AI Business School
  • Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Deep Dive: Duke University
  • Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Primitives: Duke University
  • Fraud Detection on Financial Transactions with Machine Learning on Google Cloud: Google Cloud
  • Raising Capital: Credit Tech, Coin Offerings, and Crowdfunding: University of Michigan
  • The Complete DeFi—Decentralized Finance—Industry Labs: Packt
  • AI agents and creator tools for finance professionals: AI Business School
  • Creating Generative Art Dynamic NFTs with Google Cloud Vertex AI and Chainlink Functions: Google Cloud
  • GenAI for Risk Management Essentials: Coursera Instructor Network

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