Student Trading Lab Competition
Develop a Simulated Trading Competition for Your Class
Why Use Interactive Brokers for a Simulated Trading Competition?
- The Student Trading Lab is free to use.
- Access a powerful and award winning trading platform, use Student Trading Lab resources to supplement your competition, and use live, simulated paper trading to help teach students about global markets.
- Student accounts are funded with a simulated equity of USD 1,000,000 and configured with global trading capabilities, including cryptocurrency.
- Students can develop programming, trading, risk analysis, and portfolio management skills by using a simulated trading account to trade live markets.
- Students can use their Student Trading Lab experience as a point of differentiation with prospective employers.
Create a Simulated Trading Competition
- Open a Professor account
- Define the competition rules.
- For example, ask your students to only trade stocks or derivatives.
- Ask your students to trade using at least two or three different order types.
- Instruct the students to compete against a benchmark such as S&P 500.
- Define a period for the competition.
- Use the Professor account to invite your students to create their own accounts.
- Request that students provide a trading plan outlining their strategy, encourage students to develop their own algo trading apps in Python, Java, C++, or use our Excel sample spreadsheets for market data and data science analysis.
- Use your Professor account's reporting capabilities to monitor student performance.
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A Simulated Trading Competition for Your Class
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