CHICAGO, Aug. 26,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's
leading derivatives marketplace, today announced that registration
is now open for the 21st annual CME Group University Trading
Challenge, which will be held from Sunday,
October 6, 2024 through Thursday,
October 31, 2024. Interested students can register no later
than 2 p.m. CT on Tuesday, October 2,
where they can also familiarize themselves with the challenge rules
and gain additional market knowledge through the wide range of
resources available.
The University Trading Challenge is an educational, hands-on
trading challenge for undergraduate and graduate students from
colleges and universities around the world. Competing teams will be
student-led or in cooperation with a faculty advisor. Students will
manage a variety of environmental, economic and other marketplace
risks to protect their mock investment portfolios during this
month-long competition.
Participating teams will have an interactive experience to learn
the day-to-day challenges and opportunities of managing an
investment portfolio through a simulated, professional trading
platform provided by CQG. Students will also receive education,
market-related data and news, including live updates from Dow Jones
newsfeed and The Hightower Report, to test their skills at
navigating market uncertainty in real-time.
"We are pleased to open up registration for this year's
competition which, for over two decades, has given up-and-coming
professionals unique insight into the importance of risk management
in business and the global economy," said Anita Liskey, Global Head of Brand Marketing and
Communications at CME Group. "Through this unique competition,
students learn about futures markets as they try their hand at
trading and compete with other university teams around the
world."
Last year's competition brought together more than 400 teams of
1,865 students from 24 countries around the world, representing 156
universities. The winning team came from Universidad De Guadalajara
in Mexico.
CME Group is committed to educating the next generation of
finance professionals on the significance of global derivatives
markets and risk management. In addition to interactive events like
the University Trading Challenge, CME Group also partners with
other industry organizations to offer broad educational tools, such
as Futures Fundamentals, a one-stop educational resource that
explains the role of futures markets in everyday life. The goal of
the site is to make financial education an engaging experience for
anyone, regardless of how well versed they are in the world of
finance.
As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group
(www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash
and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering
market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and
capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range
of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based
on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign
exchange, energy, agricultural
products and metals. The company offers futures and
options on futures trading through the CME Globex platform,
fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on
the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's
leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME
Clearing.
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