College stock trading competitions list
I am looking to put together a list of college trading competitions, both for other WSO users reference and so our trading team can broading it's horizons.
So for the ones I know about are:
The Rotman International Trading Competition (RITC) iRotman Competition (Canada) Registration is $300 CAD. Deadline should be mid Jan 2012. Held around February 17th, 2012 to Saturday February 19th, 2012.
CME Group (pretty large commonidites trading comp) it was oil and gold futures last year Reg Jan 10, 2012. Preliminary Round: February 16 - March 3, 2012 (electronic and remote) National Finals: March 6-18, 2012.
Tulane Trading Competition (energy trading) Does not have a firm registration from what I gather. Remote Round takes place over two weeks Week 1: September 20th - September 27th Week 2: September 27th - October 1st Finals are October 22, 2010 - October 23, 2010 At Tulane
MII Interactive Investments Conference at U of Mich (stock pitch comp, no trading) next 2 day competition is in the fall Fall 2011 MII UIC, contact our conference director, David Bleznak at [email protected].
Penn State (equities contest) Last was held in march, but I think they have quarterly or semester competitions.
Trader's Trophy, last US leg of the competition was Jan to Feb this comp started in singapore and HK but last year got Columbia University New York University,Penn State University, Wharton, Cornell University, and Princeton University involved.
hinkorswim Collegiate Trading Competition (assuming equities on their platform) To be released Summer 2011 for the Fall 2011 competition.
As people post with them or update info Ill add it to the main list. Thanks!
Looks good
MIT has had an annual trading competition the last few years. It uses the Rotman client and you have to be in attendance to compete but they only invite certain schools to participate (HYP, Wharton, NYU, Wellesley, Columbia, maybe a few others).
I'll add it to the list. Thanks. is it an equities contest?
University Trading Competitions (Originally Posted: 03/08/2011)
Does anyone know of any online trading competitions starting relatively soon for university students?
Fool.com CAPS competition
More geared towards long-term investing ( min. holding period one week ) but if you rack up a good score / return it is a great supplemental tool when selling yourself, especially if weak in other areas (GPA, non-target, etc.)
markit runs one every now and then which is fairly good.
lol at min holding period of one week being described as geared towards long term investing
http://topsteptrader.com/combine.aspx
commodity futs, day trading
if you win comibine you get a 50k account 60/40 profit split
The value of trading competitions (Originally Posted: 10/06/2010)
So my business school's stock market trading competition has been going on for a little while and I was wondering if any one here, especially if you've recruited before, knows how much value recruiters place on a 1st place winner?
Shows interest and skill doesn't it?
If it's only your school I would think it's neither a positive or a negative. Shows interest but nothing else. If it's a competition that's against several schools then it would definitely look good.
I think the MIT trading comp is very legit
I agree with merun...if it was largely and included other schools then it may have a bit more credibility behind it. It would also depend on how large the competition was within your school.
So no perception of skill, knowledge, and hence value is derived? It just seems quite nonsensical to me that a 1st place winner amongst 40 or so active contestants should be treated as merely an interested party. And what if the returns beat the markets by wide margins? If I was a recruiter I'd at least be intrigued enough to give this candidate an interview.
Can someone who has recruited before confirm this in anyway?
does not mean much to me unless i am the firm thrwoing the event....
I would not be, a trading competition is not real, shows interest and proves you may follow the markets thats all.
I know people who won class competition, because they went balls long Nortel, praying the 1in1000 chance it rallies on BS asset sales news occurs, and guess what in the final week 2 days tot he end, they got their trade. So they won. We don't look to hire people like that.
These competitions show nothing about discipline or knowledge.
MIT/Rotman style are different since its against other schools, and actual skills.
I would have to see the details of the competition but I cant imagine that one could make any judgement of skill over a one semester or even one year contest. But as noted above it does show some interest and enthusiasm about markets. As a senior in college I actually won a "stock-trading" contest at my school where everyone picked a portfolio of stocks and the winner got a small prize. Realizing it was pure luck i just put all my money in one small, high beta ethanol stock and it happened to get bought at a huge premium by a large energy company. So I ended up winning...but obviously this didnt prove i knew anything about trading.
Depends on the details but it wouldn't hurt to put on the resume. As other people have said, more emphasis will be put on it if it's against other schools.
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