Read this post for details on the assignment called “Speculating with Options”.

For this assignment, you are to hedge the market risk of a one-stock portfolio. The stock will be of your choosing. You will use E-mini S&P 500 Futures to cross-hedge. The contract size for mini S&P 500 futures is $50 times the futures price. This hedge is only necessary for a few weeks, so select the December 2009 contract.

The objective this project is to analyze a U.S. Treasury Coupon Bond and purchase it on Stock-Trak!

Click on this post for details of the Technical Analysis Project!

The goal of this assignment is to apply the fundamental analysis tools that we have studied. We will use these tools to analyze a firm’s fundamentals and then come up with a trading strategy.