OLGA A. MURAL FINANCIAL ENGINEERING TRADING FLOOR A UNIQUE AND INTEGRAL LEARNING TOOL

The Olga A. Mural Financial Engineering Trading Floor provides students hands-on experience in derivatives trading and risk management – all conducted in our on-campus electronic classroom. Kent State has the only derivatives-oriented trading floor in an academic institution with direct connections to the futures exchanges.

The trading floor is equipped with the same software used by major investment banking firms simulating live exchange data feeds and real-time market information. Data feeds from CQG and Reuters provide continuous news and pricing information. At the front of the trading floor is a data board that provides real-time pricing information on derivatives. Students use this information in combination with software like Trading Technologies X_Trader, and Patsystems' AudiTrack's MicroHedge options analytical product to assess market conditions for trading tendencies.

Since students use the same data feeds and trading software that are used by major investment banking firms, the trading floor allows them to replicate dynamic trading strategies and derivative security analyses.