This thesis focuses on automated trading systems for foreign exchange markets. It describes theoretical background of financial markets, technical analysis approaches and theoretical knowledge about automated trading systems. The output of the thesis is set of two automated trading systems built for trading the most liquid currency pairs. The process of developing automated trading system as well as its practical start up in Spartacus Company Ltd. is documented in the form of project documentation. The project documentation captures choosing necessary hardware components, their installation and oricess of ensuring smooth operation, as well as the selection and installation of the necessary software resources. In the Adaptrade Builder enviroment there has been shown the process of developing strategies and consequently theirs characteristics, performance, as well as a graph showing the evolution of the account at the time. Selected portfolio strategy has been tested in the MetaTrader platform and in the end of the thesis is offered assessing achievements and draw an overall conclusion.

This thesis deals with the design and optimization of an automatic trading system based on trend indicators. This thesis describes entire proces of system development from its parts to the whole system. It focuses on the optimization of each part and the complete system. This thesis also describes the testing proces of the systém on historical data and its application on the latest data.

This master’s thesis deals with the problems of a technical analysis and its use. The first part of thesis describes theoretical background of the technical analysis and basic concepts and principles of the currency market Forex. The second part is devoted to analyzing the current situation in the environment of currency market. The output of the thesis is a desktop application for the support of technical analysis. The design and development of the application is described in the last part of this thesis.

The main objective of this thesis is to design and optimize an automated trading system so as to achive stable equity curve and profit. This model is tested on historical and current market data. Area of trading in the currency markets by using automated trading systems is very large and therefore the biggest focus is on current aproaches to technical analysis, automated systems and summarizes interesting ideas which are used to design my own automated strategy. After completing system design and optimization of the selected input parameters follows its testing on historical data and simulation of real market environment. In both cases the equity curve is profitable and shows a trend of steady growth.

This thesis addresses the analysis and design of automatic trading system on currency markets using breakout strategy for capital appreciation for company ALFA – zdravá výživa. The description of implementation of this strategy on chosen trading platform and its summary will represent an output of this thesis.

The aim of the diploma thesis Proposal of an automated trading system for a retail investor is to propose and create an automated trading system in the forex foreign exchange market environment. Basing on an analysis of the current scientific knowledge about the topic and greatly focusing on stability and profitability of the system, a functional automated trading system fit for a retail investor is proposed. A practical application of this system on a portfolio of selected currency pairs is included in the thesis.

This diploma thesis deals with theoretical and practical aspect of the Forex market and all important information that is necessary for its understanding and trading on this market, focused on intraday trading with automated trading system. The main goal of this thesis is to create whole information source for beginner forex traders and to describe them all trading risks and the ways how to reduce these risks, for example through the using of money management and creating suitable automated trading strategy. The next part describes fundamental, technical and partly psychological analysis. This part is mainly focused on technical analysis and describing well known and the most widely used indicators of technical analysis. Based on gained knowledge, several automated intraday trading strategies suitable for small initial capital on the most liquid currency pair EUR/USD are designed, tested and evaluated. These strategies are based on technical indicators and its combinations.

The thesis deals with the possibility of prediction of the exchange rate on forex. The combination of Elliott wave principle and Fibonacci numbers examines to what extent and in what time periods it is possible to predict exchange rate. The thesis use fundamental analysis and MACD oscillator to confirm the accuracy of this prediction.

Doctoral thesis deals with the method of the currency portfolio creation focused on short-term trading, which not exceed one business day. That is the reason why is necessary to increase the profitability of investment positions by using financial leverage. Development of proposed investment strategies is realized with use of computer technology in combination with software that allows direct access to the foreign exchange market. The software enables direct access to a database of historical prices and has an implemented a programming language that allows effective processing of statistical analyzes, which is required for development of investment strategies. The investment strategies are optimized and tested on a database of historical price movements from 1. 1. 2004 to 31. 12. 2012 for the major currency pairs EUR/USD, GBP/USD and USD/JPY. The main assumption of entry to the market for proposed investment strategies is based on specific time intervals during the day, where is an increased probability of new short-term trends beginnings. The doctoral thesis statistically validated this assumption. The proposed method of creation a currency portfolio was applied to real market since 1. 1. 2013 to 30. 9. 2013 and was used for 20 000 $ trading account. Profitability of proposed method of creation a currency portfolio is 26,89%.

This MSc Thesis was performed during a study stay at the Hochschule Furtwangen University, Furtwangen, Germany. This Master Project provides a theoretical background for understanding financial market principles. It focuses on foreign exchange market, where it gives a description of fundamentals and price analysis. Further, it covers principles of high-frequency trading including strategy, development and cost. FIX protocol is the financial market communication protocol and is discussed in detail. The core part of Master Project are sorting algorithms, these are covered on theoretical and practical level. Aggregator design includes implementation environment, specification and individual parts of aggregator application represented as objects. Implementation overview can be found in last Chapter.