IT&F: Class Schedule

Date Topic Deck How to prepare & Homework due
Tue 1/13 Welcome to Information Technology and Finance:
what you will learn, skills for your career
Deck01 Browse this web site. Bring to class any questions you might have.
Part I : Acquiring Business Process Automation Skills
Thu 1/15 Foundational technology concepts.
Recording processes with the macro recorder
Deck02
H01 is due at the beginning of class
Check your email and join the FinTech Group
Tue 1/20 Modeling process: Activity diagrams
Deck03
H02
Thu 1/22 How programs work: Loops
Deck04
H03 - Orange words
Tue 1/27 How programs works: Function calls
CLASS MOVED ONLINE - SAME TIME
Deck05
H04 - Orange words
Part II : Acquiring Business Intelligence (BI) Skills for Finance
Thu 1/29 BI tools: SQL and DBMS
Deck06
H05 - Orange words (every time from now on)
Tue 2/3 Retrieving business data (SQL + VBA + Excel): Canned queries Deck07
H06
Thu 2/5 Retrieving business data: Dynamic queries Deck08
H07
Tue 2/10 Managing business data: Non-queries
H08
Thu 2/12 Data Quality: data cleaning I  
H09
Tue 2/17 Data Quality: data cleaning II
H10
Thu 2/19 BI Tools: Pivot tables
H11 - Reading #5
Part III: Acquiring Financial Analytics Skills     
Tue 2/24 Introduction to the Hedge Tournament

H12
Thu 2/26 Stock and Options transactions fundamentals
H13
Spring Recess     
Tue 3/10 Financial Metrics

H14
Thu 3/12 Transactions: Stocks

H15
Tue 3/17 Transactions: Options

H16
Thu 3/19 Option valuation: the Black-Scholes model

H17- Reading #6
Tue 3/24 Delta Hedging

H18
Thu 3/26 Implicit volatility

H19
Tue 3/31 Algo trading: delta hedging of a portfolio family

H20
Thu 4/2 The recommender

H21
Tue 4/7 Simulation

H22
Thu 4/9 Syncing

H23
Tue 4/14 Tweaking your robotrader

H24-The last!
Thu 4/16 Tweaking your robotrader

Tue 4/21 No regular class: All-day software clinic

Thu 4/23 No regular class: software clinic

The McIntire Hedge Tournament:  4/23 - 6pm-9pm
Tue 4/28 Results, ranking, pictures, and the history of the Tournament - regular class hours

This schedule may be subject to change to fit the class needs.