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Which Lecture should I learn?

Hello everyone, I gotten to lecture 1-10 before I realize I should look into the tutorials. I finished getting started, pipeline and, I am starting algorithm trading. Im following through, but I realize some lectures are not needed, Im asking the community which lesson should I learn? I come from a pharmacy background, we only need 20% of what we learn in pharmacy school.

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Hi William,

I'd also say it depends on what your goal is. If you want to learn how to create a solid equity strategy for the contest, both the Factor Analysis and the Long/Short Equity lectures I personally found were great starting points. Most lectures are relevant in one way or another I'd say.

thanks Joakim! Im focusing on learning long/short equity like the contest suggests. I want to learn a bit more about trading and making money more.
Ill look at the lectures one by one, but focus on those you suggest. Ill watch the lectures then this https://pythonprogramming.net/finance-programming-python-zipline-quantopian-intro/

I think he made a good algorithm tutorial, which Ill play around with afterwards, then ask the forum for help.

Ill probably look at quant con lectures and potcasts when i get the hang of it
https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopian-plus-chat-with-traders

Sounds like a good plan. I like both Harrison’s YouTube tutorial and the podcast series quite a lot.

One thing I’d suggest is to try to spend most of your time trying to find solid alpha factors in Alphalens (rather than a lot of backtests, which may be tempting), as AL provides a lot more insight details as to how factors behave. Once you’ve found and understand the factor, you can add them to your strategy and run backtests.

Just a suggestion. It’s what I try to do anyway.

actually his sentiments stuff is a bit hard to follow. I think Ill just stick to getting started, pipeline and following the other things now. But I do have a better idea of where to search for help. Thanks