Project Documentations

Trading Strategies in Stock Markets

  • -The objective of this project was to apply some of the trading strategies like Momentum Trading and Pairs Trading on real stock data and analysing the performance of the portfolios by various measures.
  • - We began the project by understanding the basics of trading and how trading is done through a de-mat account.
  • - After this, we learnt Momentum Trading and Pairs Trading Strategies.
  • - We applied the strategies on real data using Python and also discussed their respective Research Papers.
  • - We shared weekly links to be covered by the students and assignments at the end of each week. There were doubt sessions each week.
  • – Around 40 students were a part of the project.They learnt a lot about the basics of trading, trading strategies and de-mat account and also the functioning of exchanges like NSE

Index Fund

  • The objective of this project was to apply ratio analysis on a pool of companies form each sector and select some of them for further Equity Research and Analysis.
  • We began the project by understanding the basics of Financial Statements and how to - calculate various ratios using them.
  • We shared weekly links to be covered by the students and assignments at the end of each week. There were doubt sessions each week.
  • This is a first sub-part of the main ‘Equity Research and Analysis’ project.
  • Around 40 students were a part of the project and many of them completed the final assignment.

Why does INR devalue (w.r.t USD) in the year prior to general election?

  • In this short project we are trying to check whether this statement is true or not. If true, are the causes related to election, is it due to corruption, if so, whether other countries exhibit similar behaviour or not.
  • This is more of a market analysis project which involves a lot of research and article readings.

Shares Buyback: When are they good or bad?

  • In this project, members read articles by famous economists and investors to understand what share buyback is, in which scenarios are the shares buybacks considered good and when they are considered bad.
  • Apart from this, what are the benefits of shares buyback as compared to giving out dividends and are their better methods to give money back to shareholders other than these.