An Introduction to Financial Markets on Wall Street

Comprehensive guide to finance: equity, debt, FX, commodities, derivatives, investment bank, hedge fund, risk, jobs

Created by: Ying Chen
Wall Street Quantitative Analyst with 10+ Years experience

What Will I Learn?

• Understand the function of financial markets and financial institutions (investment banks, funds, insurance companies and so on).
• Learn most updated financial and economic data.
• Understand financial instruments (stock, bond, FX, MBS and commodities) and their derivatives (options, futures, interest rate swap, swaption, credit default swap, CMO and CDO).
• Learn financial instrument related risk (interest rate risk, credit risk, liquidity risk and counterparty risk). Learn 2008 financial crisis.
• Learn what is the difference between sell side and buy side. Learn different jobs on Wall Street and what skills are needed.

Requirements

• No finance experience is required. Everything is explained from the scratch.
• You just need basic math skill to understand the financial data and statistics used in this course.

Target audience

• Anyone who is interested in finance.
• Anyone who wants to improve his or her financial knowledge.
• Anyone who have an interest to have a career in the financial industry.