Simulated Trading Room at Lee Kong Chian School of Business
Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University
Simulated Trading Room
The Simulated Trading Room (STR) is located at the Concourse within the SMU main campus, near the Computer Centre and other academic laboratories. The stand-alone terminals at the STR can be linked to a dedicated computer server for interactive trading in securities or investment simulation.
The main purpose of the STR is to allow faculty members 11 August, 2006data to contextualise market conditions. Up-to-the minute financial data can be flashed on a projector screen, the upfront LCD screen, and each of the computer terminals. This infrastructure allows students to monitor news, observe actual market price movements, and make investment decisions as events unfold.
Appropriate software may be pre-installed for portfolio optimisation or share trading. SMU has acquired a number of databases, including Thomson, University of Chicago ’s Centre for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), and hedge fund commercial data. From these data sources, faculty members and students can extract financial information for learning and research.
The STR will be useful for computer-based learning or computer-aided teaching. It is well-equipped to facilitate e-Learning and host investment simulation games, such as the “Financial Game Challenge”, for stock selection and “The Bourse Game”, for foreign exchange trading.
Students may use the STR for their assignments, term papers and investment games while faculty members may use the STR for their research and teaching. .