# Site

## Pages

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- [Assessment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/assessments/): Every piece of graded work in the course, what it is worth, and when it is due.
- [Market Mechanics Notebook](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/assessments/market-mechanics-notebook/): A short, low-stakes notebook checking that the basic mechanics of placing and reading a stock order have landed before the course moves on to strategy
- [Personal Market Rulebook](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/assessments/personal-market-rulebook/): The capstone — a personal rulebook synthesising the whole semester into the rules a student would actually trade or invest by
- [Strategy Lab](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/assessments/strategy-lab/): A trading-style analysis and risk plan drawing on chart reading, swing and day-trading concepts from the middle third of the course
- [Lectures](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/lectures/): What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
- [Welcome to the Market](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/lectures/week-01/): Opens the course on the small-account problem — why limited capital, drawdowns and forced exits matter more the smaller the account, with a basic tour of markets and asset classes as supporting orientation
- [How a Stock Trade Actually Happens](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/lectures/week-02/): The first source of execution friction — exchanges, brokers, account types and order types, and why the displayed price isn't the executable one
- [There Is More Than One Way to Trade](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/lectures/week-03/): Why holding period decides which risks and costs dominate — comparing investing, swing trading and day trading on that one axis
- [Reading Price](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/lectures/week-04/): Candlesticks, volume, trends, support/resistance and ranges — how chart structure sets entries, stops and invalidation, not predictions
- [Risk Before Strategy](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/lectures/week-05/): Risk, drawdowns, stops, position sizing and expected value — taught before any trading style, on purpose
- [Swing Trading](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/lectures/week-06/): Swing trading as a case study in multi-day exposure — overnight gaps, event risk and capital tied up across days — built on Weeks 4–5
- [Day Trading](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/lectures/week-07/): Day trading, liquidity, slippage and VWAP — where execution friction becomes a large share of expected return, not a rounding error
- [Short Selling, Margin and Leverage](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/lectures/week-08/): Introduces leverage on ordinary stocks before the leveraged derivatives in Weeks 9–10
- [Futures](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/lectures/week-09/): A case study in embedded leverage and forced liquidation — futures margin is set by the exchange, not chosen, and usually far higher by default
- [Options](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/lectures/week-10/): Why small accounts misjudge bounded loss, total premium loss and non-linear payoffs — options built on Week 9's futures groundwork
- [Cryptocurrency Markets](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/lectures/week-11/): The course's most extreme survival case — 24/7 markets, custody risk, and leverage far beyond what a stock broker offers
- [The Small-Account Survival Rulebook](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/lectures/week-12/): The synthesis lecture — turning every survival mechanism from the semester into rules a small account would actually hold to
- [People](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/people/): Who teaches the course, and how to reach them.
- [Idris Fenn](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/people/idris-fenn/): A tutor working across the course's first reviews and the practical work that follows them. Teaches the applied trading and derivatives weeks.
- [Marisol Quaye](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/people/marisol-quaye/): The founding convenor, responsible for the course's shape and its weekly teaching programme. Teaches the market-mechanics and risk weeks.
- [Policies and support](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/policies/): The course-wide rules for late work, extensions, academic integrity and getting help.
- [Welcome to the Market](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/sessions/01-welcome-to-the-market/): The first session — orientation to markets in general, and to how this course will move through them
- [How a Stock Trade Actually Happens](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/sessions/02-how-a-stock-trade-actually-happens/): Placing and tracing a simulated stock order end to end, from order type to fill
- [There Is More Than One Way to Trade](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/sessions/03-there-is-more-than-one-way-to-trade/): Mapping investing, swing trading and day trading against a student's own time, temperament and goals
- [Reading Price](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/sessions/04-reading-price/): A chart-reading workshop — candlesticks, volume and trend, read on real historical charts without acting on them
- [Risk Before Strategy](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/sessions/05-risk-before-strategy/): A position-sizing workshop on paper, before any trading style is asked to use the numbers
- [Swing Trading](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/sessions/06-swing-trading/): Building a simulated swing watchlist and one full trade plan against it
- [Day Trading](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/sessions/07-day-trading/): Walking through a structured intraday trade plan on simulated data, at day-trading speed
- [Short Selling, Margin and Leverage](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/sessions/08-short-selling-margin-and-leverage/): Working a simulated margin call by hand, so leverage stops being an abstract multiplier
- [Futures](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/sessions/09-futures/): Pricing and margining a simulated futures contract by hand
- [Options](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/sessions/10-options/): A payoff-diagram workshop comparing a simulated call and put against the Week 9 futures contract
- [Cryptocurrency Markets](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/sessions/11-cryptocurrency-markets/): A market-structure lab applying the course's risk and leverage ideas to a simulated crypto position
- [The Small-Account Survival Rulebook](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-zdy-forever/sessions/12-build-your-own-market-rulebook/): A drafting session for the Personal Market Rulebook, synthesising the whole semester