Quant Trader

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Lesson 1.4: Costs: spread, fees and slippage Learn what trading really costs: the spread, taxes and fees, market impact and slippage, and see how a few basis points decide whether a strategy survives.
Lesson 1.1: How markets work: exchanges, order books and liquidity Learn how an exchange matches buyers and sellers: order types, the limit order book, call auctions, spreads, depth and the price you really pay.
Lesson 1.3: Returns, compounding and risk Learn to measure performance correctly: simple and log returns, compounding, volatility drag, annualising, drawdowns and why average returns are so noisy.
Lesson 1.2: Stocks, futures, options and FX Learn what traders trade: shares and corporate actions, futures and margin, option payoffs and currency pairs, with the arithmetic of each worked by hand.