Class Schedule
| DATE | TOPICS (may be rearranged to fit the class needs) | DECKS | HOMEWORK
DUE |
| Jan. 14 | Welcome! Intro to the class, tools, and resources |
Deck |
No Homework due (you are welcome!) |
| PART I | PROCESS AUTOMATION | |
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| Jan. 16 | Technology concepts Recording processes with the macro recorder. Read #1 |
Deck |
H01 Check your email and join MS Teams |
| Jan. 21 | Modeling process: Activity diagrams. Read #2 How to solve the 'trusted location' problem |
Deck |
H02 |
| Jan. 23 | Process Automation: Loops | Deck |
H03 |
| Jan. 28 | Subs, and Functions Optional demo to examine after class, Read #3 |
Deck |
H04 |
| PART II | BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE IN FINANCE | |
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| Jan. 30 | BI tools: SQL and DBMS Read #4 (& optional How to rename a folder) |
Deck |
H05 |
| Feb. 4 | BI tools: getting SQL, VBA, and Excel to work I - Canned queries |
Deck |
H06 |
| Feb. 6 | BI tools: getting SQL, VBA, and Excel to work II - Dynamic queries | Deck |
H07 |
| Feb. 11 |
BI tools: getting SQL, VBA, and Excel to work III - Non-queries | Deck |
H08 |
| Feb. 13 |
Data Quality: manipulating data I | Deck |
H09 |
| Feb. 18 | Data Quality: manipulating data II | Deck |
H10 |
| Feb. 20 | BI Tools: Pivot tables - Read #5 | Deck |
H11 |
| PART III | FINANCIAL ANALYTICS | |
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| Feb. 25 | Introduction to the Hedge Tournament (stocks and options) | Deck |
H12 |
| Feb 27 | Stocks and Options fundamentals(stocks and options 2) | Deck |
H13 |
| Mar. 4 | Financial metrics | Deck |
H14 |
| Mar. 6 | Trading Stocks | Deck |
H15 |
| S P R I N G R E C E S S | |
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| Mar. 18 | Trading options Folder recovery, Trust recovery, Key recovery |
H16 | |
| Mar. 20 | Evaluating options: the Black-Scholes model. Read #6 | ||
| Mar. 25 | Delta hedging | ||
| Mar. 27 | Implicit volatility | ||
| Apr. 1 | Algo trading: delta hedging of a portfolio family |
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| Apr. 3 | The recommender | ||
| Apr. 8 | Simulation | ||
| Apr. 10 | Syncing | ||
| Apr. 15 | Tweaking your robotrader | ||
| Apr. 17 | Tweaking your robotrader | ||
| Apr. 22 | Tweaking your robotrader | ||
| Apr. 23 | Office hours until 5pm THE MCINTIRE HEDGE TOURNAMENT: 6pm to 9:30pm |
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| Apr. 24 | No class | ||
| Apr. 29 | Prizes, pictures, and the history of the Tournament - regular class hours |
Contents
The HT
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