BusinessIntermediate
Financial modeling
Harbor School of Data · Course
22,400 learners, rated 4.5
$89
BusinessIntermediate
Python for finance
Model returns, risk and a portfolio in Python, from price data to a finished report.
Rated 4.61,720 reviews16,200 learners
Taught by Priya Raman, verified instructorQuant · trading desk · Harbor School of Data- Length
- 8 weeks at 5 hours a weekAt your own pace, or in a live cohort
- Credential
- Earn a Specialization certificateIssued by Harbor School of Data
- Language
- Taught in EnglishWith subtitles in 14 languages
- Tutor
- An AI tutor in every lessonIt answers from the lesson on screen
$119once, yours to keep
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About this course
You write each calculation yourself first, then reach for the library that does it in one line. It suits finance analysts who rebuild the same risk tables in a spreadsheet every quarter and would rather write them once.
Skills you practice
Syllabus
6 modules
Ends on the project
18 lessons
7 to 18 min each
3 h 59 min of video
Pause to ask the tutor
2 free lessons
Watch before you pay
5 quizzes
33 questions in all
1 project
Reviewed by Priya's team
- 1.2Simple returns and log returns9 min
- 1.3Resampling to weeks and months18 min
- Quiz · 6 questions8 min
- 2.2Value at risk15 min
- 2.3Correlation between assets7 min
- Quiz · 6 questions10 min
- 3.1Weights and rebalancing16 min
- 3.2The efficient frontier15 min
- 3.3Constraints a real fund works under18 min
- Quiz · 8 questions6 min
- 4.1A backtest without look-ahead bias12 min
- 4.2Transaction costs12 min
- 4.3Reading a backtest with suspicion9 min
- Quiz · 6 questions8 min
- 5.1Regression on market factors14 min
- 5.2Style exposures7 min
- 5.3Performance attribution7 min
- Quiz · 7 questions10 min
- 6.1Charts for a committee16 min
- 6.2A report that rebuilds itself15 min
- 6.3Explaining risk in plain words18 min
- Project · Build a portfolio report from ten years of daily price data5 hours
What the price covers
In the price
- 18 video lessons, 3 h 59 min in all
- The AI tutor beside every lesson
- 5 quizzes, graded as you answer
- A project reviewed by Priya's team
- A Specialization when you finish
- Transcripts in 14 languages
Not in it
- Answers the tutor writes for you
- Live reviews outside a cohort
- One-to-one mentoring
- A job guarantee
Your instructor
Priya Raman, verified instructor
Quant · trading desk
- Rating
- 4.5
- Learners
- 45.3K
- Courses
- 3
12 years in finance
I built risk models on a trading desk for eight years.
Career highlight
Three startups I advise raised on these models.
How Priya teaches
I review models the way my desk did, cell by cell.
Reviews, rated4.61,720 reviews
Overall rating
- 5 stars, 72% of reviews
- 4 stars, 19% of reviews
- 3 stars, 5% of reviews
- 2 stars, 2% of reviews
- 1 star, 1% of reviews
Nate G.Founder
3 weeks agoFinished
I raised my prices in week two, and the course paid for itself within a month. Priya does not let a neat spreadsheet hide a guess from you.
Chloe M.Account executive
2 months agoFinished
It changed how I prepare for any conversation about money. I walked into my salary review with a number, and I walked out with it.
Hannah O.Marketing lead
4 months agoFinished
Short lessons, real homework and a project that somebody reads and answers. I have not found that on any other course I have paid for.
Zara H.Founder
3 months agoFinished
I used what I built in module three in a real investor meeting last spring. Nobody found a hole in it, and I knew where the holes would have been, because the course had made me dig every one of them myself first. We closed the round in June, and two of the investors asked which consultancy had built our model. I had built it myself, at my kitchen table.
Raj K.Bakery owner
1 month agoFinished
Useful, but it assumes a software business. I run a bakery, so I translated half of the examples into flour, rent and staff hours.
Steve W.Sales lead
2 months agoFinished
A lot of theory for a course sold as practical. The second half is better than the first, and it is where the exercises and the project start.
6 of 1,720 reviews
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