Assessment 1: Market view and trading session Type: Report and summary Weighting Length for ...
Assessment 1: Market view and trading session Type: Report and summary Weighting Length for the market view report for the summary of trading. Due date There will be a 2-hour trading session run during the class in Week 6. After the trading session, students are required to submit their transaction log spreadsheet within 30 minutes. They also need to submit a market view report and a summary of trading which are due within 5 days after the trading session. When they submit their market view report and summary of trading, they are required to submit their transaction log spreadsheet again together with these two files. Overview Students will have access?to Refinitiv?Workspace. They will?use its apps to track live market data?and?conduct portfolio analysis. They will form their market view and do simulated trading accordingly. The purpose of this assessment is to apply your knowledge learned in the class to participate in a simulated trading scenario with real life data from Refinitiv Workspace, which is a real-life financial and economic data platform that updates in real time. Students utilise this authentic data to create their market view and initiate their trades. Assessment Criteria This assessment will measure your ability to: Research and gather relevant market and economic information to form their market view (15 marks) Execute trades based on their market view and real-life market data. Then, summarise these trades (15 marks) Learning Outcomes The targeted Course Learning Outcomes for this assessment are: CLO 1 Interpret the implications of globalisation from a finance perspective and identify various types of international Monetary systems. CLO 2 Examine the structure and trends of the balance of payments (BoP). CLO 3 Analyse important features of the foreign exchange markets, including international parity relationships, and apply approaches of forecasting exchange rates The targeted Program Learning Outcomes for this assessment are: PLO 1 Explain their role as a local, national and global citizen and be able to apply these perspectives in business contexts. PLO 3 Analyse complex challenges and formulate innovative solutions in real-world contexts PLO 4 Reflect on and continuously progress their own professional development, enhancing their intellectual agility and adaptability as tools for success in ever-changing business contexts. PLO 5 Coherently articulate technical and conceptual business knowledge that is both contemporary and interdisciplinary. This is an individual assessment task. The purpose of this assessment is to apply your knowledge learned in the class to participate in a simulated trading scenario with real life data. Students need to create their market view and initiate their trades. There will be a 2-hour trading session run during the class in Week 6. Before the trading session, students need to do research and form their market view. During the trading session, students are required to trade based on market data and their market view. After the trading session, students are required to submit their transaction log spreadsheet within 30 minutes. They also need to submit a market view report and a summary of trading which are due within 5 days after the trading session. For example, if the trading session finishes at 2:30pm on Monday, the market view report and the summary of trading for this session are due by 2:30pm on Saturday of the same week. Trades implemented need to be consistent with the market view presented in the report. When they submit their market view report and summary of trading, they are required to submit their transaction log spreadsheet again together with these two files. Citation and referencing should be provided where necessary. Students should follow the Harvard referencing style. Students are required to keep back-ups of all submitted work just in case any are lost. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All submissions must be made electronically on Canvas to Turnitin, accompanied by a cover sheet. The submission should use?1.5 or 2.0 spacing and 12 point Times New Roman font.? Referencing guidelines Use RMIT HarvardLinks to an external site. referencing style for this assessment. You must acknowledge all the courses of information you have used in your assessments. Refer to the RMIT Easy CiteLinks to an external site. referencing tool to see examples and tips on how to reference in the appropriated style. You can also refer to the library referencing page for more tools such as EndNote, referencing tutorials and referencing guides for printing. Academic integrity and plagiarism Academic integrity is about honest presentation of your academic work. It means acknowledging the work of others while developing your own insights, knowledge and ideas. You should take extreme care that you have: Acknowledged words, data, diagrams, models, frameworks and/or ideas of others you have quoted (i.e. directly copied), summarised, paraphrased, discussed or mentioned in your assessment through the appropriate referencing methods Provided a reference list of the publication details so your reader can locate the source if necessary. This includes material taken from Internet sites If you do not acknowledge the sources of your material, you may be accused of plagiarism because you have passed off the work and ideas of another person without appropriate referencing, as if they were your own. RMIT University treats plagiarism as a very serious offence constituting misconduct. 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