🎯 Target Audience:

• Advanced traders and finance students

• Investment analysts or fund managers-in-training

• Retail traders wanting to understand the institutional edge

• MBA/Finance students

⏱️ Course Duration:

6–10 weeks (30–40 hours total including lectures, reading, and projects)

📚 Course Format:

• Video lectures

• Case studies

• Simulated trading exercises

• Real-world data analysis

• Guest lectures (optional)

🧱 Course Modules:

Module 1: Introduction to Institutional Trading

• Definition & participants (hedge funds, asset managers, mutual funds, pension funds)

• Comparison with retail trading

• Trade size, objectives, and timeframes

• Market impact of institutional activity

📘 Assignment: Analyze institutional volume vs. retail volume in a chosen asset

Module 2: Market Microstructure & Order Flow

• How markets work (limit order books, dark pools, ECNs)

• Order types: iceberg, VWAP, TWAP, block orders

• Liquidity and slippage

• High-frequency trading (HFT) & algorithmic execution

📘 Assignment: Simulate order execution with price impact on a trading simulator

Module 3: Institutional Strategies

• Arbitrage (statistical, index, merger)

• Momentum & trend-following

• Long/short equity

• Portfolio rebalancing & rotation

• Quantitative and macro strategies

📘 Assignment: Build a simple long/short model using Excel or Python