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  1. emg

    emg

    Here is another interesting article: a case study


    USING A FINANCIAL TRADING ROOM TO FACILITATE AN INTERDISCIPLINARY, LEARNER-CENTERED PARADIGM: ONE SCHOOL’S EXPERIENCE


    http://www.tsu.edu/pdffiles/Southwestern Business Journal/SBAJ-sp2009-Paper4.pdf



    Individuals responding to questions about such facilities indicated that the immediacy of stock and global news information adds realism to the classroom. Through team-based and individual study, students gain a greater understanding of how financial markets respond to new information. As students experience the impact of global currency fluctuations, variances in governmental policy, and corporate and individual decision-making, the sense of a ―global economy‖ expands beyond that of a textbook discussion to one that is more attuned with the way 21st century students learn. These perceptions lead one to anticipate the following propostion:


    Proposition 1. Learner-centered instruction in technology enhanced financial laboratories improves student skills and retention of dynamic content knowledge.

    Propostition 2. Learner-centered instruction in technology enhanced financial laboratories improves faculty and student interaction and student learning.

    Propostion 3. The accuracy and immediacy of data in a technology enhanced financial laboratories improves opportunities for faculty research.

    Proposition 4. Learner-centered instruction in technology enhanced financial laboratories improves supports interdisciplinary collaborations.

    Propostition 5. Using the FTR would assists faculty in finance, economics, and accounting in the process of developing curricula to effectively assess student learning


    Proposition 6. Learner-centered instruction in technology enhanced financial laboratories improves students understanding and application of financial concepts to real-world businesses.

    Proposition 7. Exposure to and classroom instruction in the technology enhanced financial laboratories improves students’ overall learning and access to internship and permanent placement opportunities.

    Proposition 8. Student engagement in projects requiring the use of the FTR will enhance soft-skill development.


    CONCLUSION
    The experiences associated with developing and implementing the FTR have been rewarding. Anticipated positive outcomes have been realized across all of the areas selected for study. Program expansion, however, to the broader campus and in the community remains a significant work-in-progress. This paper has not discussed the cost of implementation, and it should be noted that to build a facility such as this generally requires a significant initial capital outlay to develop the FTR and continuing annual expenses for product licensing. The primary determinant of cost is related to the size of the FTR and the range of financial products selected for use by students and faculty.

    The establishment of the Young Investors Club was the result of grass-root student action based on the availability of the FTR. This unexpected outcome draws over 30 students to the FTR weekly for guest speaker presentations and informal learning opportunities. The use of the facility by secondary schools was also more a hope than an expectation. When it was realized, all parties were pleased. Today, more than 1,000 students participate in activities in the FTR annually and we anticipate increasing use. The results of our experiences suggest that the learner-center paradigm works effectively in the trading room environment and we strongly recommend that others consider this as a means of increasing student learning.








    Subscribing to 3rd party educational vendors/signal providers will not make u a successful trader. It will just get u dumber.
     
    #31     Mar 14, 2012
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    #32     Mar 14, 2012
  3. All of these Ivy League graduates are still crunching numbers for Papa bear as expensive calculators.

    You can slather makeup on a donkey and have it still look like an ass.
     
    #33     Mar 14, 2012
  4. Small traders lose, they just lose.

    The future is HFT! All funds are doing HFT now, small traders are dead minced meat for the HFT machines.

    Small traders stand no chance.

    Get an education, get an MBA.

    Higher education is the key.
     
    #34     Mar 14, 2012
  5. emg

    emg

    What unique about the university trading room lab is open to all departments (school of agriculture, school of math, school of engineer, school of business, etc) If one wants to learn how to trade grain futures or grain spread futures, he/she can get help from the school of agriculture professors and both will do a research in the lab.


    Higher Education will allow u to be able to create your own trading system with the help from many professors.


    Higher Education!




    Keep in mind, MIT BlackJack team was formed both by professors with different background and students
     
    #35     Mar 15, 2012
  6. emg

    emg

    Here is an example of School of Agriculture:


    http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/p.aspx?tabid=18



    Kansas State University does have a trading room lab. If a student wants to learn about trading in the grain futures, it would be best to get help from agriculture professors or add agriculture as a minor degree.
     
    #36     Mar 15, 2012
  7. Higher education is the key.

    If you trade lean hog or other animals, you can get help from the Animal Department professors. They are very good at animals.

    http://www.asi.ksu.edu/
     
    #37     Mar 15, 2012
  8. emg

    emg

    Here is another university in New York offers trading room:

    Hofstra University


    In January 2005, the Zarb School took a major step toward establishing a state-of-the-art trading room, named after alumni member Martin B. Greenberg, by installing 34 Bloomberg terminals. The Martin B. Greenberg Trading Room is a technology-enhanced academic trading room equipped with industry-standard, dual-panel terminals and audio-visual displays. In this Center, faculty and students can access the same data, analytics, and software used by financial professionals to make investment, trading and financial decisions.

    Business students can also participate in scholarly activities like The Merrill Lynch Center. This center was enacted to promote and facilitate faculty and student study in the field of international financial services and markets, and to communicate knowledge and information in this field. The Center will seek to accomplish this through (a) the interaction of academics and professionals; and (b) an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Center's areas of interest. Other events include the Frank G. Zarb School of Business Executive Speaker Series where numerous business professionals from various, diverse fields are invited to the school to lecture, take part in a question and answer session and share their knowledge/experiences in their area of expertise.


    http://www.hofstra.edu/academics/Colleges/Zarb/tradrm/tradrm_about.html


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    The real EDUCATION
     
    #38     Mar 21, 2012
  9. emg

    emg


    Rutgers Trading Room:

    The new pavilion of the Business School features a new RBS trading room and three primary lecture halls with a seating capacity of 80-100



    http://whereru.rutgers.edu/gigapans/245/Trading-Room
     
    #39     Mar 21, 2012
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    emg