The case involves accepting or rejecting a series of
institutional orders. Your decision rule for accepting or rejecting these orders is as follows:

 You will accept an institutional sell order if, following the acceptance of the order, you can instantly
place a market sell order to reverse 65% of the share position at a volume-weighted average price
that is greater than the price of the institutional sell order

 You will accept an institutional buy order if, following the acceptance of the order, you can instantly
place a market buy order to reverse 65% of the share position at a volume-weighted average price
that is less than the price of the institutional buy order.

After placing the large market order, the remaining position should be reversed algorithmically using
smaller market orders of 500 shares per second. If your share position is close to zero but not divisible
by 500, then your algorithm should place a market order such that you revert to a zero share position.
As an example, suppose you had to decide whether to accept an institutional buy order for 80,000
shares at a price of $50 per share. While contemplating this decision, you examine the ask side of the
limit order book and find that you can buy 52,000 shares at a volume-weighted average price of $49 per
share. Because the VWAP of buying 52,000 shares is less than the price at which the institution sells you
the shares, you would accept the institutional buy order for 80,000 shares and then quickly submit a
market order to buy 52,000 shares to reverse 65% of your negative share position. The remaining
position of negative 28,000 shares would then be reversed algorithmically by purchasing 500 shares per
second.

Create a spreadsheet and VBA algorithm that trades according to the decision rules above. Information
in your spreadsheet should be used to facilitate the decision of whether to accept or reject an order. The
accept/reject decision can be executed manually or algorithmically (the latter is more challenging). Your
spreadsheet should be organized so that the manual decision to accept an institutional order can be
made quickly. The instructions for accepting or rejecting an order should be made very clear.

(Note: your solution to this question must as a spreadsheet with macros (i.e. an
xlsm file) . Also make sure that the workings in your spreadsheet and VBA code are
clear and easy to follow.)

Your task is to select one (1) of the following scholarly articles. Read it carefully and then write a report in which you specifically address what the thesis/point of the article is, the kinds of evidence the author(s) presents, and how the author(s) employs the evidence to argue for his or her point. Based on the evidence & arguments presented, do you think that your author made a convincing case? Are there any obvious weaknesses in the evidence presented or the arguments? After reading the article, what additional questions do you have concerning the author’s position?

The purpose of this exercise is to gain practice in reading and understanding the kinds of evidence and argument employed by archaeological professionals. The articles are fairly short by disciplinary standards (18-30 pages, typically) and not hyper-technical. It is NOT expected that you will understand all of the references or nuances of the articles. The basic points are quite accessible, however, even to non-specialists.

The articles are available on the Blackboard site for this course. Go to the “Content” section, and look in the folder “PDF Articles for Assignment 2.” They are stored in .pdf format, so you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader program, which is installed on most computers these days or built into browsers; it is available from Adobe.com for free. Some of these cannot be printed out in hard copy form for publishing reasons, but they may easily be read on-line, and you may copy the files to your computers.

This should be a report in the range of around 1000-1200 words, typed & double-spaced.Upload a copy of your report to both Turnitin.com and Livetext.com.

You may NOT use direct quotes from the articles in this assignment. Express the author’s ideas as you understand them in your own words. Because of that, and because you are responding to a specific article, it is not necessary to use internal documentation to indicate your source. You should make clear in the first paragraph, however, to which article you are responding.

Scheidel, W. “The Greek Demographic Expansion: Models and Comparisons”

Attached is the selected article.

1. Many companies use their brand as a competitive advantage. Given your knowledge about the global economy, identify three brands you believe have the strongest likelihood of remaining a source of advantage in the 21st century and explain why. Explain the effects you believe the internet’s capabilities will have on the brands you identified in the previous discussion and what the owner of the brand should do in light of them.

Analyze the internal environment of the company you researched to determine that company’s strengths and weaknesses. Based on the strengths and weaknesses you discovered, determine what steps the company could take to positively impact the company’s competitiveness. Explain your rationale.

A Draft Review Article On: Mindfulness
meditation and how it can successfully engage middle childhood boys in student literacy
achievement

No Plagrism!

Attatched is the outline plan and the background as to what I want to talk about, please use this plan as to the direction of the review.

Also previous work has been done on the literature review, it was fairly basic, so please step it up.

The paper is 5000words max. For the draft would be expecting at least 3000 of quality writing no less. But please don’t ramble on for the sake of the word count.

5000words max

Whilst this is a draft I do expect quality.

Please when preparing the article use these steps when you submit to me.

1. Don’t worry about a cover page
2. Label each section – Title, Abstract, Introduction …
3. All other features should follow those listed in the Asia Pacific Journal of Education http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cape20

Instructions

Goal: Demonstrate the ability to create a field of study project that uses both research-based and personal content while using presentation software to communicate with an intended audience.

Description:

During the first six-weeks you formulated a project plan, researched the content of the plan, and collected quality academic and non-academic sources. For the week 7 Field of Study Project you will create a presentation (CO8) that builds upon the week 2 Project Plan and the week 4 Location and Access (Source Organization worksheet) that effectively communicates the knowledge you have gained during COMM120.

Please consider the following:

• Presentation will include an introduction, body, conclusion, and properly formatted reference/work cited slide in the citation style of your degree program (APA, MLA, or Chicago).
• Clear evidence that the topic was researched and expanded upon the week 2 Project Plan (CO2 & 5).
• Presentation provides audience with information to increase their knowledge of the topic presented (CO1).
• Presentation engages the audience by using elements such as images, graphs, and charts. Appropriate citations must be included.
• Three (3) vetted credible sources. One (1) of the sources must be scholarly and from the library.
• Appropriate length 7-9 slides.

If you have multimedia skills and want to add creative content to your presentation, please do! Try to add any of the following enhancements and as you do, think about how it will impact your presentation and improve communication with the intended audience.

• Voice narration, closed captioning, script.
• Appropriate background music (must be cited on reference page).
• Creative use of slide animations and transitions.

After submitting your presentation, review your TurnItIn Originality Report. (Note: Review the individual flags, decide why that text is flagged, and make corrections as appropriate.). Please see the attached rubric for grading guidelines.