Assignment:

The total number of pages should be 15. Be careful, graphs or tables can be very important and useful, but it doesn’t count in term of space taken in the paper. You need to write 15 pages of words. (It can be double spaced)

The assignment is divided in three separate papers. The dates of submission are provided on Blackboard.

This is a paper written individually; it is not a group project.

The evaluation of the paper will be based on the content, the organization, and the quality of writing.

Papers will have to be submitted through email and SafeAssign on Blackboard.

Content:

You have to trade and write two reports.

Each paper is a report about your trading activities in the Queens College Trading Competition, and each one of them should have 5 pages.

The topics may vary. It depends on your trading experience. It could be about:

i/ your strategies: what securities you selected and why, what strategies you adopted, how successful your strategies were, what you would have done differently, what you learned from it, etc.

ii/ your observation on the relationship between different markets, global macro strategies

iii/ the relationship between business cycle and financial markets

iv/ relationship between events and evolution of prices in financial markets

v/ relationship between political or geopolitical situations and financial markets

vi/ quantitative approaches you developed

vii/ specific firms, industries, financial instruments related to your trading.etc.

The list is not exhaustive. It must be related to your trading activities, so to current events even if you can incorporate historical perspectives. Also, it has to be an original analysis.

A list of resources is provided on the website of the trading competition but you can use any other material.

It contains trading strategies, references and links that should help you to start.

To register, go to the Website:  https://qc.cuny.edu/etc

Click on Enroll and fill up the information. You will then receive an email telling you how to register for MarketWatch, the platform we use for the competition.

The competition takes place from Tuesday February 2 to Friday April 30.

You must write two reports:

  • the first one is due Thursday March 25: it must be a 5 pages report
  • the second one is due Thursday May 13: it can be a 10 pages report or two 5 pages reports.

Both of them are due through email and SafeAssign on Blackboard.

Objective

You have to demonstrate that you have the ability to come up with a deep, interesting and original analysis.

It is a document you could present to an interviewer, a boss, or publish online.

Organization:

Basically, you should organize your paper the following way.

Introduction: It should start with general statements to introduce the subject and then you should explain what you will write about and the general content of the different parts.

Part 1:     You are free to organize your parts as you want. It has to have clear different parts with a logical evolution in the writing. You can have more parts if you want as long as it is well organized

Part 2:

Part 3:

Conclusion: It is a summary of your paper and it should be short.

References

You must mention your sources and have a list of references at the end of the paper. It is important not to use only one source.