Trading now taught in many Universities

it is probably somewhere in this thread:http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=93470&perpage=1&pagenumber=1

 

Locally, Ashland University has a pretty pimp trading room:

http://www.ashland.edu/programs/finance
http://www.ashland.edu/programs/finance/eagle-investment-group


Seriously, look at this trading room. That's your 'classroom':




When I was a broker we recruited there and I have seen the room first hand. This is a brand new building and they spared no expense anywhere.


Video from the Eagle Investment Instructor:

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It would be good program so that students could gain knowledge in this field. Trading business is very popular nowadays and for sure many students are interested into it also.

 

I hope they don't teach daytrading. it will be as usefull as teaching poker in university.

 

instructor has no clue himself

 

The list is growing fast involving universities setting up trading rooms. It has now jumped from 15 to about 47 universities in a few years although there could be more. I believe MIT had the first one in 1996.

To build a trading room like this...I'm sure most of them got funded by a Wall Street firm along with endowments to the school of business...giving back to the public and advertising the name of their firm to all those university students. Students that will some day in the future will think about investments, college funds for their own kids and retirement funds.

Mark

 

I attended Price business school at University of Oklahoma.
They didn't have a trading room back but I was there when the new building was open.
The wasn't a trading curriculum back then. Hardly even a decent curriculum on investments. Students took our student investment fund course for the easy A. They taught a very conservative approach to investing.

Energy trading may have opened up much more opportunities since then. The presence of the energy companies that are/were headquartered here is everywhere. The school pumps out a lot of students with energy management degrees with some curriculums involving power trading and such.