Faculty of Business, Technology & Sustainable Development

Macquarie Trading Room

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Teaching and Learning in the Macquarie Trading Room

The Macquarie Trading Room facility allows students and lecturers to interact in real-time through the professional financial subscriptions and computer facilities within the room. Lecturers can set up simulated trading environments for the students and adjust the market conditions to demonstrate different market situations and theories.

The Macquarie Trading Room facility allows students and lecturers to interact in real-time through the professional financial subscriptions and computer facilities within the room. Lecturers can set up simulated trading environments for the students and adjust the market conditions to demonstrate different market situations and theories.

There are a number of subjects that are taught in the Macquarie Trading Room including Financial Analysis and Valuation, Econometrics and Investments which provide students with both practical and theoretical knowledge and experience. 

Financial Analysis and Valuation teaches students to use theoretical and empirical research to forecast variables relevant to the valuation evaluation of securities. Students evaluate the financial health and survival of corporations and forecast their future earnings based on an analysis of financial statements. The class also teaches students how to address the issue of valuing public company securities using accounting and other public company data.

Econometrics is a sub-discipline of both statistics and economics and presents one interface between statistical theory and the real world. It provides the tools with which to test hypotheses and to generate forecasts of business activity. Hypothesis testing and its application allows students to specialise in areas such as market research and other disciplines which are skills that can be applied in almost all jobs in the field of business application, whether in the public or private sector.

Investments subject content teaches students the practical value in managing investments. This unit looks at the different types of financial securities and term structure of interest rates as well as fundamental concepts of expected return, risk, risk aversion and diversification as they apply to the valuation of bonds and common stocks and portfolio management.