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.
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25MBB426 |
Financial Analytics (Practical)
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CO679: Read financial documents and compute basic financial statistics using R. CO680: Import data sets and apply various visualization techniques. CO681: Recognize and relate the concept of Risk Diversification and management through different portfolio models. CO682: Apply the simulating trading strategies. CO683: Comprehend and apply the Option pricing models. CO684: 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 |
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.
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
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
Simulating Trading Strategies: Foreign exchange markets, Chart analytics, Initialization and finalization - Bayesian Reasoning within Positions, Entries, Exits, Profitability, Short term volatility, The State Machine
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
• Mark J. Bennett, Dirk L. Hugen, Financial Analytics with R, Cambridge University
Press
• Vikas Raj, Business Analytics and Financial Planning, TV12 Broadcast Ltd
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]
Links:
[1] https://managementb.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/financial-analytics-practical
[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/2025-2026