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Pairs Trading at the Prague Stock Exchange
Nušlová, Alice ; Krištoufek, Ladislav (advisor) ; Křehlík, Tomáš (referee)
Bibliographic entry: NUŠLOVÁ, Alice. Pairs Trading at the Prague Stock Exchange. Prague, 2014. Bachelor thesis, Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Stud- ies. Supervisor: PhDr. Ladislav Krištoufek Ph.D. Title: Pairs Trading at the Prague Stock Exchange Author: Alice Nušlová Department: Institute of Economic Studies Supervisor: PhDr. Ladislav Krištoufek Ph.D. Supervisor's e-mail address: kristoufek@ies-prague.org Abstract: Since its birth in the 1980s, pairs trading has become a widely used strategy for making profits among hedge funds and institutional investors. This technique identifies pairs of securities whose historical prices show long-run relationship, and takes advantage of their short- term relative mispricing. Profit is generated due to correcting behavior of security prices as they converge towards equilibrium value of their spread. The aim of this thesis is to compare two traditional approaches to pairs trading: cointegration and sum of squared deviations between normalized historical returns, known as distance criterion, within the Prague Stock Exchange equity market. We further investigate whether the two methods, so commonly employed in the US equity market, can be applied with similar success in the PSE. Our results reveal that the strategy using distance...
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Comparison of mechanical and discretionary trading principles in intraday trading
Šuffner, Otakar ; Veselá, Jitka (advisor) ; Zetek, Pavel (referee)
This bachelor thesis compares mechanical and discretionary stock trading principles. The first theoretical section will include basic parameters of stock trading. In the second part will be designed mechanical trading system, which will be optimized with programmable filters. The theoretical basis, in the second chapter will be technical analysis and use of indicators. In the pivotal third part will be introduced discretionary trading strategy. This strategy will be based on the application of the auction market theory using volume profiles. In the conclusion will be evaluated the pros and cons of both trading approaches. There will also be a proposal how to combine mechanical and discretionary trading. Key words
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Analysis of global derivatives´ markets since 2005 till 2009
Klečka, Ondřej ; Zámečník, Petr (advisor) ; Čámská, Dagmar (referee)
Bachelor thesis is about the problematic of development of world markets with financial derivatives since 2005 till 2009 (included). First part of paper is focused on potential derivatives' defining, introduction in dividing derivatives by various aspects, indicates deals of their statistic measuring, characterize the main types of derivatives. In the second part there is analysed the development of derivatives' markets in years 2005-2008 which was typical by strong economic growth till the financial crisis and economic recession (since second half 2008 till the end of 2009). Analysis is based on information and statistics from the Bank for International Settlements.
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