Quantitative Finance - Top 10 Countdown of the Best Certification & Training Programs (#9)

Colleagues, algorithmic and quantitative trading offer excellent career growth potential for finance professionals. The #9 recommendations on our countdown is the Quantitative Methods for Finance Professional Certificate.  It provides fundamental desk-ready skills essential for quantitative roles in finance, including trading, structuring, valuation, risk management, regulation and financial engineering. Learn all the mathematical techniques, Excel tools, VBA programming skills and numerical methods that you need to succeed. This Professional Certificate comprised of Mathematics, Probability and Statistics for Finance, Introduction to Programming for Finance, and Numerical Methods for Finance. Gain insights into the structure of stochastic processes and the implications for derivatives pricing, essential techniques of statistical inference for finance, learn regression analysis in Excel, become a proficient VBA programme and proficient  use of Monte Carlo techniques and finite difference methods to price securities and compute risk measures. Other skills include Essential Statistics for Finance - Point estimation of population parameters, Method of moments and maximum likelihood, Desirable properties of estimators, Interval estimation, Application: Value at Risk, Hypothesis testing, Type I vs. type II error. Next is Regression Analysis - Method of least squares, Linear vs. non-linear models, Properties of linear model estimators, Confidence intervals and hypothesis tests for model parameters, Problems: Heteroscedasticity, autocorrelation and multicollinearity and Application: Finally, Lattice Techniques - Fitting a binomial tree to an asset price process, Application: Pricing an American put on a binomial tree, Pricing options on dividend paying securities, Trinomial tree models, along with Finite Difference Techniques - Approximating first and second derivatives by finite differences, Explicit finite difference technique for derivatives pricing, Application: Pricing options, Implicit and Crank-Nicolson techniques.

Enroll today and stay tuned for our #9 pick next week (teams & execs welcome): https://tinyurl.com/yszj7hh5 

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