CENTER FOR APPLIED FINANCE EDUCATION, CAFE

Learning practice of finance moves to a new dimension at CAFE, which is,

• A simulated trading room with state-of-the-art financial software and real-time data-feed services, utilizing a powerful hardware infrastructure,
• A laboratory providing a sophisticated learning environment in finance and other related areas,
• A smart classroom allowing hands-on finance education.

CAFE has 25 workstations in the classroom and 3 workstations in the adjacent business suite. Each workstation has two LCD displays and is connected to data-feed from all over the world with further access to supporting software. Among these software are financial information networks and databases such as Thomson Reuters DataStream, Matriks, Rasyonet StockGround, WRDS, CRSP, CompuStat and virtual trading and portfolio simulation tools such as FTS.

Here are some examples of what you will be able to do at CAFE,

• Follow real trading activity guided by an expert via video-conferencing
• Trade with your classmates, or enter world-wide trading competitions using FTS, a financial trading simulation software
• Research companies using comprehensive data from all over the world.

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