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Hadoop and Business Intelligence
Kerner, Josef ; Šperková, Lucie (advisor) ; Augustín, Jakub (referee)
The main purpose of this thesis is to describe how an integration of a Hadoop platform into currently existing Business Intelligence technologies and processes can augment its data processing and analysis capabilities while encountering Big Data. Furthermore, it describes reasons why the whole Hadoop application ecosystem was founded and informs the reader about the functionality of its primary components. It continues with provision of overview about Hadoop higher-level components architecture and their use in existing Business Intelligence processes such as data ingestion, transformation and analysis. In the last theoretical chapter it focuses itself on describing specific areas of utilization of the Hadoop platform and Big Data in data warehousing, text mining and predictive analytics. From the practical point of view, a particular use case is provided, an implementation of Big Data ETL process in the field of financial markets and trading with a detailed explanation of the corresponding necessities such as data model, ETL code and proposed metrics, which can be further implemented for achieving increased return on investments.
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Algorithmic trading
Uherek, Jiří ; Stádník, Bohumil (advisor) ; Fičura, Milan (referee)
The diploma thesis is focused on algorithmic trading. In the first part the theoretical background is summarized. This part is particularly focused on definition of algorithmic trading, execution mechanisms, quantitative strategies, including problems regarding backtesting, and also on benefits and threats of algorithmic trading in market's point of view. The thesis also offers an introduction to genetic algorithms. In the practical part the strategy using genetic algorithm to find optimal combination of particular strategies is developed. The results showed that using genetic algorithms was beneficial for given data series. They also showed that the size of transaction costs is crucial for strategy performance same as dividing data series into testing sample and validation sample.
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Currency Trading Strategies
Krpálek, Jan ; Bašta, Milan (advisor) ; Žváčková, Lenka (referee)
My bachelor thesis is concerned with algorithmic trading on foreign exchange markets. Motivation is to create practical work which will cover basics for my ongoing work. From my perspective it is very important to describe assumptions which are necessary in order to properly understand functionality of automated trading. The initial theoretical part includes essential description of methods and tools for Technical Analysis and Money Management which are used afterwards. Further my aim is to show optimization process that is used by professional traders to achieve better and consistent trading results. Finally all calculations will be processed by the TradeStation trading platform and written in EasyLanguage. The end of my thesis includes complete algorithm, ready for immediate use.
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Analysis of Morgan Stanley during the financial crisis
Holiš, Jakub ; Dvořák, Petr (advisor) ; Jablonský, Petr (referee)
The main task of the diploma thesis is an analysis of financial performance and position of Morgan Stanley during several successive periods before and during the subprime financial crisis. Through the analysis of trends in key items, it also demonstrates strong cyclicality of financial performance and position of the investment bank. The first chapter deals with history and key divisions of the Company. The following chapter generally discusses selected phenomena, which, as per the author's view, significantly influenced industry-wide record-breaking performance during the period before the subprime crisis, and which substantially determined Morgan Stanley's risk profile and performance's corrections later during the Crisis. The core part of the Thesis is conceived as an analysis of financial performance and position of Morgan Stanley during the selected periods. The analysis of pre-crisis period until 2006 in the third chapter demonstrates growth of activities lying behind the unprecedented profitability of the Institution. The following fourth chapter analyzes deteriorating financial performance during the subprime crisis and indicates crucial strategy changes, implemented by the Company at the end of 2008. Effects of the strategic changes and challenges of the future development of the Institution are discussed in the last chapter. Additionally, the Thesis includes annexes, which further deal with selected topics and their general relations to investments banks and two annexes which compare Morgan Stanley with its nearest peers during specific periods.
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