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Financial Services FIS101 - Commodities Futures Trading
Course presents fundamentals and history of commodity futures trading. Content includes the economic role of commodity trading in our society, exchange rules that govern trading, regulatory agencies and the organization and operation of the commodity futures exchanges.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) FIS102 - Securities Trading
Course continues FIS 101. Content includes fundamentals and history of the securities markets, the economic role of securities trading in our society, exchange rules that govern trading, regulatory agencies and the organization and operation of the securities exchanges.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) FIS110 - Consumer and Commercial Credit
Course identifies and examines factors influencing consumer and business credit practices and policies. Content includes methods of credit investigation and analysis; effective credit/accounts receivable administration; and components influencing standard and unconventional types of loans.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) FIS130 - Principles of Fundamental Analysis
Course studies use of fundamental analysis in commodity and securities price forecasting. Content includes supply and demand, price cycles, forecasting of prices and research methods.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) FIS140 - Principles of Technical Analysis
Course studies use of technical analysis in commodity and securities price forecasting. Content includes basics of chart analysis of price movements and technical factors affecting price movement, trends, support and resistance levels and pattern identification. Focus is on construction, interpretation and application of charts as tools in determining market positions. Prerequisite: FIS 101.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) FIS150 - Global Trading of Currencies
Course presents the basics of trading in global currencies. Content includes the euro and yen, and others.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) FIS230 - Advanced Fundamental Analysis
Course examines the stock and bond markets and their relationships to corporations and investors. Content includes several different investment alternatives and their characteristics, incorporation of actual market conditions and current events into the classroom. Focus is on time value of money, definition of value, basic characteristics of common stock, relationship between risk and return, and calculation of a stocks expected return. Recommended for students who have a basic understanding of macroeconomics and the financial markets. Prerequisite: FIS 101 or FIS 102.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) FIS237 - Introduction to Options Market
Course explores actual market conditions and strategies. Focus is on the relationship of options to their respective underlying vehicles and on the relationship of several individual options to others of the same classification. Recommended for students with basic knowledge of put and call options. Prerequisite: FIS 101.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) FIS239 - Advanced Options Markets
Course explores actual market conditions strategies. Focus is on the relationship of several individual options to others of the same class. Recommended for students who have an advanced understanding of put and call options.
1 Credit Hours (lecture: 1; lab: 0) FIS240 - Interest Rates and Global Markets
Course examines foreign exchange markets and their relationship to global interest rates, Federal Reserve and government. Content includes a comparison of agency policies as they affect interest rates and foreign exchange; gold standard vs. floating exchange rates, and the effect of international interest rates and their pull on the world capital market.
1 Credit Hours (lecture: 1; lab: 0) FIS247 - Advanced Technical Analysis
Course reviews methods and techniques of price analysis of commodity futures markets. Content includes focus on applying and examining validity of various methods of price analysis available for use in trading the commodity futures markets, for stock and bond trading, trading of live markets, and stop-loss procedures. Prerequisite: FIS 140.
2 Credit Hours (lecture: 2; lab: 0) FIS250 - Interest Rates and Foreign Exchange Markets
Course examines the foreign exchange situation domestically and world wide. Content includes dollar exchange rates, spot, forward, futures and options markets, appropriate history and economics/finance topics. Focus is on foreign exchange from the viewpoint of the trader of currencies, the hedger and the international importer/exporter.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) FIS290 - Topics in Financial Services
Course designed to meet the special interest needs of Financial Services students and local business organizations. Special topics will be offered for variable credit from one to four semester credit hours. Students may repeat FIS 290 up to three times on different topics for a maximum of nine semester credit hours. Prerequisite may vary by topic.
1-4 Credit Hours (lecture: 1-4; lab: 1-4)
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