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FINANCIAL ANALYTICS [1]

Paper Code: 
MBB426
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

The course will enable students to apply financial analytics techniques, including portfolio optimization, market sentiment analysis, trading strategy simulation, and option pricing models, using tools like R and computational finance principles.

Course Outcomes: 

Course

Learning outcome

(at course level)

Learning and teaching

strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course Title

24MBB426

Financial Analytics

(Practical)

 

CO755: Read financial documents and

compute basic financial statistics using R.

CO756: Import data sets and apply various visualization techniques.

CO757: Recognize and relate the concept of Risk Diversification and management through different portfolio models.

CO758: Apply the simulating trading strategies.

CO759: Comprehend and apply the Option pricing models.

CO760: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction

Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, Group Discussion, Tutorials, Case Study

Learning activities for the students: Self-learning assignments, presentations

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Introduction to Financial Analytics

Introduction: Meaning-Importance of Financial Analytics, Documents used in Financial Analytics: Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Cash flow statement, Elements of Financial Health: Liquidity, Leverage, Profitability.
Financial Statistics: Concept and mathematical expectation, Probability, Mean, SD and Variance, Skewness and Kurtosis, Covariance and correlation, Financial Returns, Capital Asset Pricing model.

12.00
Unit II: 
Financial Securities

Financial Securities: Bond Investments, Stock Investments, Securities Data Sets and visualization, Securities data set importing and cleansing, Plotting multiple series, adjusting for stock splits & Mergers, generating prices from log returns.
Application of Sharpe Ratio using R

12.00
Unit III: 
Data Mining and Market Sentiment

Markowitz means - variance optimization: Optimal Portfolio of two risky assets, Data mining with Portfolio optimization.
Gauging the market Sentiment: Markov Regime Switching model, Reading the market data, Bayesian reasoning, Beta distribution, Prior and posterior distributions, Momentum graphs

12.00
Unit IV: 
Simulating Trading Strategies

Simulating Trading Strategies: Foreign exchange markets, Chart analytics, Initialization and finalization - Bayesian Reasoning within Positions, Entries, Exits, Profitability, Short term volatility, The State Machine

12.00
Unit V: 
Binomial Model for Options

Binomial Model for Options: Applying computational finance, Rsik Neutral Pricing and No Arbitrage, High Risk Free Rate Environment, Put Call Parity, From Binomial to Log- normal.
Black - Scholes model and option - Implied volatility: Black - Scholes model: Concept and applications, Derivation - Algorithm for Implied volatility.

*Case studies related to entire topics are to be taught.

Essential Readings: 

Mark J. Bennett, Dirk L. Hugen, Financial Analytics with R, Cambridge University
Press
Vikas Raj, Business Analytics and Financial Planning, TV12 Broadcast Ltd

References: 

Suggested readings

James, E.R. (2017). Business Analytics. UK: Pearson Education Limited

E-RESOURCES:

●https://www.jigsawacademy.com/blogs/business-analytics/ [2] ●https://nptel.ac.in/courses/106106122 [3]

JOURNALS:

●https://vciba.springeropen.com/ [4]

●https://appliednetsci.springeropen.com/ [5] ●https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/ [6]

Academic Year: 
2024-2025 [7]

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Source URL: https://managementb.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/financial-analytics-1

Links:
[1] https://managementb.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/financial-analytics-1
[2] https://www.jigsawacademy.com/blogs/business-analytics/
[3] https://nptel.ac.in/courses/106106122
[4] https://vciba.springeropen.com/
[5] https://appliednetsci.springeropen.com/
[6] https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/
[7] https://managementb.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-year/2024-2025