Investment Strategies in International Banking and Finance

International Banking and Finance

Contents
International Banking and Finance..................................................................................................1
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
Executive summary.........................................................................................................................3
Main body........................................................................................................................................4
Analysis.......................................................................................................................................4
Strategies used.............................................................................................................................6
Appendix..........................................................................................................................................8
References......................................................................................................................................15

Executive summary
Investment strategies are considered as one of the element which helps in taking various
investment decisions. It is considered that financial decision and the management strategies that
the company takes is considered before making any investment. Several media news and the
decision that the government of the country take so as to make the flexible rules regarding the
promotion of the business are considered. This is seen that the decision of the government and
positive news regarding the economy of the country helped in achieving profits on the
investment. The top down bottom up, market analysis, fundamental analysis and market
efficiency has been used to consider before making the investments in the market. Also the
investment were made for the around 1 month and the currency were not added as such but this
was seen that in most of the transactions profit were realised on sell of the instrument. While in a
month around 12 deals were made in different s that were listed in the market. The total
remaining balance for the whole transactions that were made in the year were 39,994 AUD.
While there is negative P&L of amount -1542 AUD. The loss of amount 1542 AUD occurred
due to the fact of negative news that occurred in the market. Also the was not sold at the gain
situation if sold at that time would have resulted in profit. The risk management activities were
taken so as to achieve the objective of maximising the profit on investment. For this stop loss
option was used which helped in reducing the amount of loss. The amount which is due at the
risk is around 2,836 AUD which has to be closed to earn profit.

Main body
Stock market is considered as one of the market where the buyers and sellers come together so as
to buy and sell the stock of the company with the opinion of earning profits on their investment.
This is considered as the public market where the investment in the shares and bonds of the
company are done by the public investors. Investment in the stock market is considered to be one
of the difficult task where the various techniques has to be considered. Also various strategies
has to be made by the investors to achieve the objective of maximising the profits (Avdjiev,
McCauley and Shin, 2016). Also various strategies that were used to complete the transactions
and to achieve the maximum return on the investment is considered for the purpose. Also the
amount of profit that is gained on making certain investment in various stock of the company is
showcased in this report.
The investment in the currency market is considered as the one of the strategic process which
requires high amount of research. This is seen that there are number of the different ways
through which the investment in the currrencies market has to be done. This is considered that
there are various ways which includes the value investing, growth investing or the index
investing. It is considered that the investors are considered to be intended to be long term owners
of the capital of the company and helps in increasing the company’s value (Ban, Seabrooke and
Freitas, 2016). While investing in various companies and indexes of various countries the market
research was done by the investor so that they are able to achieve the profit booking on the
investment done. While investing in the companies and the indexes various research were done.
Also the market of the company was analysed for this purpose.
Analysis
The trading platform that was provided by was easy market which helped making investment in
various companies and the other platform of the company. While making investment this was
seen that it took around 1 month to complete the trading and the market research. The first
investment was done on 3rd April and the investment were done so on after this date. For doing
the investment the indexes were chosen. This was also seen that the investment was done in
various currencies of the world which can give maximum result in maximum profit. The stop
loss situation were also checked by while doing the investment (Obstfeld and Taylor, 2017).
While deciding to invest the day trading platform was used also the limit orders were made while