Quantitative Finance with Excel VBA: Build Your Own Stock Selection System

Navigating the financial markets requires data, but manually collecting stock information is tedious and time-consuming. By automating your data gathering, you can focus on analyzing trends and making smarter investment decisions. This text-based course guides you through the foundational concepts of quantitative finance and teaches you how to write Excel VBA scripts to retrieve financial data directly from the web. You will transition from a complete beginner to building a personalized, automated stock selection system that filters market data according to your own criteria. What you'll learn: - Understand key quantitative finance concepts and stock market terminology - Write Excel VBA macros to automate repetitive financial analysis tasks - Scrape financial data from public websites using VBA web scraping techniques - Apply basic API integration concepts to fetch real-time market data directly into Excel - Build an automated stock selection system to filter and rank equities - Manage and clean scraped data using modern Excel data-cleaning workflows You will start by mastering foundational financial terms and the basics of the Excel VBA environment. From there, the written guides walk you through writing code to connect to web sources, extract financial statements, and organize the data into a functional stock screening dashboard. This course is designed for beginners with no prior programming or advanced finance experience. All you need is a standard version of Excel and a desire to automate your financial research. Start building your automated investment tools today through clear, step-by-step written tutorials.