Requirements for the report: It must be a 5-page report. It is related to the Q

Requirements for the report: It must be a 5-page report.
It is related to the QC Trading Competition and should be about:
 i/ your analysis: which securities you selected and why.
 ii/ what strategies you adopted.
 iii/ how successful your strategies were, and how did you adapt if you had to.
o You must trade at least 4 securities for the paper.
 Write about these 4 securities only for the paper.
o Make sure that you start early (see guide below). You cannot start just before the deadline.
If you start to trade after April 1, then it will be zero.
o There are many different methodologies you can use. It depends on your trading experience. It could be about:
 i/ fundamental analysis
 ii/ your observation on the relationship between different markets, global macro strategies
 iii/ the relationship between business cycle and financial markets
 iv/ relationship between events and evolution of prices in financial markets
 v/ relationship between political or geopolitical situations and financial markets
 vi/ quantitative approaches you developed.
 vii/ specific firms, industries, financial instruments related to your trading.
 viii/ technical analysis
 The list is not exhaustive. It must be related to your trading activities, so to current events even if you can incorporate historical perspectives. Also, it has to be an original analysis.
o Make sure that you show on the graphs some of your trades: when and at what price you bought and/or sold. The best way to do that is to use StockCharts.com.
o You can use any material as resources.
• Each of these parts should have a title so it can be read clearly.
• The introduction should be something like half a page. It includes a general introduction to the topic, the more specific question that you want to answer, the brief descriiption of the different parts that you are going to develop.
• Each part should be composed of clear sub-parts, clearly separated into paragraphs. You have to be able to construct those parts in a way that you don’t have more than 5 or 6 big paragraphs, and themselves shouldn’t have more than 3 or 4 subparts.
• The conclusion is a brief summary of your paper (half a page) emphasizing the main point. You can also mention questions that arise from the analysis you did, or potential need for reflection on some parts.
• In the reference part, you have to mention your sources.
• Sources:
o Here is a link about how to write a paper in economics:
 Deirdre McCloskey: “Economical Writing” Economic Inquiry 24(2) (Apr 1985): 187-222 [reprinted in UCLA Writing Program {Ellen Strenski, ed.}, Cross-Disciplinary Conversations about Writing (NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1989)]; reprinted with revisions as The Writing of Economics (in second ed., Economical Writing, 1999).
 http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/docs/pdf/Article_86.pdf
o A book that could be useful is: Roy Peter Clark, “Writing Tools: 50 essential Strategies for Every Writer”
o You can also get the help from the “Writing at Queens” department: http://writingatqueens.qwriting.org/the-writing-center/
/ Don’t use quotes. In the current exercise, it is better if you avoid it: first we do here a training exercise, so you have to develop your style, and second you don’t have much space for that kind of luxury.