NCSU Financial Math学生生活（1）——CME Group Trading Challenge

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“Financial Mathematics students at North Carolina State University will attend the CME Group’s Trading Challenge.

CME trading challenge is an annual competition and the number of participates grows each year. There were 320 teams from 26 countries in 2013. The challenge will last four weeks in a simulated trading environment on a real-time professional trading platform, and it will provide resources and opportunities for students to get hands on experience of trading derivatives in the financial market. Graduate students will trade a variety of CME Group products from multiple classes. The trading contracts include futures of agriculture, energy, metal, equity index, interest rate and foreign exchange rate. The team who accumulates the highest trading account balance in the final round can get bonus at the end.

There will be two teams participating the trading competition this year. Each team can choose one advisor to provide professional suggestions in the process of the challenge.

Taking an active role in trading competition is a kind of practical trainings in NCSU financial mathematics program. Different from mathematical modeling in usual classes, students in the program will utilize the trading challenge opportunity to practice beating the market combined the knowledge that they learned in usual classes.

The upcoming practice competition round is around the corner. We all look forward to impressive performance of two teams in the trading challenge!”- Xun Ma

To know more about the CME trading challenge, please go to the official website:

http://www.cmegroup.com/education/trading_challenge/

Xun Ma- May 2015 Graduate, Financial Math Intern  

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