1. Fundamental Analysis:
You are an analyst for an investment firm. You are facing a difficult client who recently lost a substantial part of his portfolio because of a stock market downturn and he is worried about his present holdings of a stock « X » (select a company that you like). Use public data to complete a fundamental analysis of this stock (your choice) and provide a two-year recommendation to your client (buy, hold or sell).
(6 pages maximum).
2. Technical Analysis and Trading:
You are a speculative technical trader for a brokerage firm. Your supervisor wants to assess your skills before sending you to the head office in Chicago (with a large salary increase!). He deposits $100,000 (or AED 500,000, depending on the market you select) in your trading account to complete 3 trades using one or more technical technique(s) of your choice. Create and execute a trading system based on classical patterns or technical indicators for each trade and provide the following:
The complete written plan with a copy of the time-stamped chart when you decide to do the trade(before execution)
A copy of the chart after execution and another at the closing of the trade when you sell (or buy back if you were short)
If you wish, you can use https://www.adu.ac.ae/SAXO to trade. Did you lose or gain? If you lost on the transaction, why? If you gained, is it luck or skill? (6 pages maximum)