Since my last entry I completed my project plan which outlined the tasks required and expected time to complete them. I have also completed my draft litereature review and introduction. I have sent these to my finance supervisor whom I will meet and discuss my work with this Tuesday. I will also discuss my data, I have been told it is currently being processed and should be avaiable shortly.

I have now done more work on my literature review, I just returned from a week's holiday so did not do quite as much as I had intended. As a result I will focus on doing my literature review and project plan over the next week and will hopefully start working on my data next week.

Since my last entry I have started my literature review. I have now written about 2500 words. I am also finding more relevant papers as I write my review. This is because papers that I found in relevant journal have references to more papers. As a result I now have a large source of papers and a lot more reading ahead of me. I hope to be close to finishing my literature review within a fortnight and to have started working on my data and necessary models.

My exams are now finished and I am once again working on my thesis. I have been looking for more papers, but I'm beginning to find relevant papers harder to find. I will hopefully spend today as my last day searching for papers and will then begin working on my literature review. I have also determined the models and methods required for this thesis. Accordingly some programming and data manipulation will be done to perform a series of different regression models on the data in order to determine what factors and market conditions provide (demand) liquidity in options markets.