The master's thesis deals with the design of the proposed automatic trading system especially for daily trading on the currency markets. The aim of the thesis is to create a complex theoretical basis, in the practical part of the work to use the knowledge to create a suitable automatic trading system. The thesis focuses on the technical analysis of the currency markets. The proposed system will be optimally optimized to maximize profitability and stability with application to the most liquid currency pairs.

Financial market anomalies are constant subjects of debate because of their devotion form the foundational financial theories. Fama and French (2008) referred to the momentum effect as the premier anomaly. Thus, this study sought to apply the concept of momentum to examine three investment strategies. The first strategy was price momentum, an existing investment strategy but which was used as a comparison to the returns of the second and third strategies. The second strategy applied momentum to return on equity, operating cash flow and earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation, whilst the third strategy combined stocks with momentum in both stock price and respective fundamental variable.Using a non-probability sampling method, a total of 109 stock listed on the JSE over the period 1999-2010 were tested. Momentum in stock price and respective fundamentals was used to rank stocks into quintiles. The viability of each investment strategy was measured by comparing its average and risk adjusted returns to the market.The results revealed that fundamental momentum can beat market returns, with the highest amount of significant differences found using momentum in return on equity. The combination strategy also reported results of beating the market, with the higest amount of significant differences found using the 12 month fundamental momentum combined with 6 month price momentum. / Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) / unrestricted

In this thesis we present a model of the interacting agents on the financial market. The agents are represented by a non-Euclidean random graph, where each agent communicate with another with probability p, and the interaction according to the Ising Model. We investigate properties of the model by direct calculations for small graph sizes, and by perfect simulation for larger graph sizes. We also present a model for asset price variation by using the magnetization of the Ising model.

Several truncated models for market weights are discussed. To summarize, the new truncated ordered stick breaking model introduced give restrictions on the ranks of the markets weights and show better fitting results for real data sets. / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)

The correct model of a liquid financial market is one of the most important matter for a management of all financial market activities including for example a stock or bond porfolio management or an asset pricing. Clear random walk models, which consider a market price/yield development on liquid financial markets to be a random walk within the meaning of a symmetric normal (gaussian) distribution, is very useful to explain quite accurately many financial market effects. If we study financial markets more closely, we recognize that such development can be partly causal and a clear random walk is only a special case of it. Dynamic Financial Market Model considers feedback processes on financial markets which cause an dependence in a probability of next price/yield step direction and also expects mix of random processes as a final result. Both effects cause not gaussian (normal) observations in probability distributions of finacial instruments and this is why the model is also able to explain for example effects like thin or fat tails and other deformations in the probability distribution. S&P500 index or Euro Bund futures probability distribution on daily basis are good examples of the diversion from normality.

Univerzita Karlova v Praze Právnická fakulta Disertační práce Právní úprava obezřetnostních pravidel v oblasti finančního trhu (Legal Regulation of Prudential Rules in Financial Market Area) JUDr. Bedřich Čížek Summary: The main objective of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive and systematic view of prudential rules in the selected area of financial market regulation with an emphasis on critical reflection of the various legal institutes and intersectional comparison of the relevant legal rules. Particular questions that this thesis attempts to answer within it's main goal are: (i) what is the essence of prudential rules in the financial market regulation (quid juris?) and (ii) whether current prudential rules in the Czech legal system meet the criteria required by legal theory on the form and the content of legislation and on the rational configuration of the legal system. The thesis also includes constructive criticism of examined issues, particularly in terms of the accuracy of the transposition of the relevant EU legislation, legal certainty of transposed provisions regarding its' recipients and the efficiency of the current legislation when designing prudential rules in question, and includes several recommendations de lege ferenda as well. The outcome of this thesis is a systematic,...

En France, la régulation des marchés financiers est assurée par l'Autorité des marchés financiers (désignée ci-après l'AMF). Autorité publique indépendante dotée de la personnalité morale, l'AMF se compose d'un Collège et d'une Commission des sanctions et dispose d'un pouvoir de sanction à l'encontre d'auteurs de manquements boursiers. Ce pouvoir de sanction est exercé par la Commission des sanctions. Le laconisme des textes et la nécessité de doter les acteurs des marchés financiers d'un code de conduite en matière répressive ont conduit la Commission des sanctions, sous le contrôle des juges, à faire œuvre créatrice au fil de sa jurisprudence. Des principes directeurs ont ainsi émergé relativement à la définition des grands principes du droit financier. Ce droit financier prétorien repose sur une politique jurisprudentielle clairement définie et vise à assurer l'intégrité du marché financier et la protection des investisseurs. La Commission des sanctions est ainsi devenue un acteur incontournable du système de régulation financière et une source du droit financier. La présente thèse vise à décrire ce nouveau droit prétorien dans sa double dimension pénale et économique. / In France, the financial market regulation is ensured by the Financial Market Authority (Autorité des marchés financiers) (hereinafter the AMF). Independent public authority with legal personality, the AMF is composed of a College and a Sanctions Committee (Commission des sanctions) and has a power of sanction against stock market offenders. This power of sanction is exercised by the Sanctions Committee (Commission des sanctions). The brevity of the texts and the need to provide financial market participants with a code of conduct on law enforcement, has led the Sanctions Committee (Commission des sanctions), under the control of judges, to a creative work through its jurisprudence. Guidelines have thus emerged on the definition of the main principles of financial law. This judge-made­financial law is based on clearly defined judicial policy and is designed to ensure the integrity of the financial markets and investor protection. The Sanctions Committee (Commission des sanctions) has become a key player in the financial regulatory system and a source of financial law. This thesis aims at describing this new judge-made-law in its criminal and economic dimension.

The first aim of this thesis is to tackle the deficiencies within the system of financial regulation. Furthermore, it aims to assess the submitted and even the already adopted proposals. The aims cannot be achieved without an analysis of the causes of the global financial crisis 2007-2009, because it helps to understand a range of deficiencies in the system of financial regulation. A global financial crisis of that magnitude cannot be traced to a single cause but was instead the result of multiple interconnected causes, which are examined at the macroeconomic as well as microeconomic level.

The European financial market is rapidly changing with emerging fintechs targeting the banks’ traditional value chain, leveraging on their lower pace of innovation. The Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) is put into force in 2018 and aims to open up the financial market to new competitors, thus, promoting positive competition. This study examines how the managerial perception of changes in the external environment, caused by PSD2, affects banks’ preparatory work. The study uses a mix of Market Based View and Resource Based View along with an extension of RBV, illuminating how capabilities and managerial cognition affects managerial action. Using a qualitative approach through an interview based comparison between managers of two Swedish banks, the study confirms the theories’ stating that managerial cognition of the external environment, comprised of perceived opportunities and threats, affects managerial preparatory actions. Additionally, the study shows that managers’ perception of organisational capabilities affects managerial action.

Financial intermediation due to misselling harms consumers. The work concerns to regulation of financial intermediaries and relation between financial intermediary and his or her client. The main objective is to analyze how the regulatory of commissions impact financial intermediation. The paper analyzes the current form of legal status of financial intermediation in the European Union and the Czech Republic and results in analyzing the impacts of regulatory proposals that was discussed in Chamber of Deputies Parliament of the Czech Republic. It concludes that if the proposals were accepted, it will not improve the quality of consumer protection, but even can cause damage to the client. The current legislative base moreover provides sufficient resources to prosecuting financial intermediation, which does not respect the client's interest. For analyzing the relation between financial intermediary and his or her client is developed theoretical model based on theory of games.