BAFI1002 Financial Markets and Institutions
Assessment Task 2 – Stage 2 FX report (Group Project)
Weight: 20%
Length: 2500 words (+/-10%, excluding references, appendices, tables and figures)
Due date: Week 10 – Friday, May 16th, 2025, by 5:00 pm. (Melbourne time)
Report Instructions:
Your team is assigned both short-term and long-term trading objectives. Based on the primary and secondary objectives, your team is invited to help clients to form and implement the strategy in achieving their specific objectives. At the end of the project, your team is required to submit a report and present it to the management team. The report needs to address the issues faced by the client as mentioned in the case, covering at least the following aspects:
1. Outline the trading strategy that you planned to achieve the objectives.
2. Explain the transactions you made.
3. Analyse the profit and loss of your trading.
4. Trading reflection.
For the primary objective, you are expected to explain the specific trading strategies you used in detail, demonstrate the currencies you buy or sell to achieve your trading objective and the quotation you accept for implementing the trading strategy. In addition, you could also explain the transactions that contribute to achieving the trading objective.
The secondary objective is linked with your stage 1 individual market view. Based on the individual market views each member of your team has completed in Stage 1, develop a market outlook and provide the Forex trading strategies you intend to undertake. Given your views (developed in Stage 1) about current and future market conditions, you (as a team) should devise a trading objective and strategy that you will try to implement. Strategies will specify how you will go about achieving your objective in a way that benefits your corporations – which currencies you will buy or sell. Where appropriate you should also devise a speculation strategy that will allow you to create a portfolio of currencies that will enable your organisation to take advantage of your predicted changes in the exchange rates.
In the trading reflection, you are required to reflect on the experience of each member of the team during the trading. What was the outcome of the trading relative to each objective? What could you have done differently? How does this experience shape your view about the determinants of foreign exchange you have analysed?
The strategies and strategy implementations are critically important components of the report. You will not get a passing grade on the report without any of these components. For this stage, you will present a consolidated team report including your portfolio summary and profit/loss.