Using FTS in the Classroom
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FTS in the
Classroom
Teaching
Objectives: With the FTS system you can run
markets with price discovery with your students as the
trading crowd. In this way students learn important
concepts from personal experience by viewing the problem
from both a trader and trading support perspectives. Our
trading cases have been carefully designed to cover
important concepts in finance applicable to fixed income,
equities, derivatives and swap markets. Each case is
pre-specified in an Excel Spreadsheet which makes it easy
for licensed users of the FTS system to modify any trading
case to suit personal objectives.
The following case grids will help you
match your teaching objectives to case selection.
Concepts
by Trading Case Grid
Fixed
Income Cases
Equity
Cases
Forward/Futures Cases
Option
Cases
Eurodollar
Deposit and Swap Cases
Specific details for using the FTS system in the classroom,
including a comprehensive Instructors Manual, is available
in the "For Instructors" (see link on upper left side of
this page) section. This is available to all licensed users
of the FTS system. |
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FAST I: Fixed
Income and Equities
Designed around the FTS Trading
Cases and Modules students can learn, from personal trading
experience as members of the trading crowd, how fixed income
and equity financial markets work. Three important issues
are addressed: How do markets discover prices, what are the
economic drivers of price discovery and how efficient are
the discovered prices. FAST I is designed around a sequence
of FTS trading cases, that tie together the price discovery
problem with each specific learning objective, to reinforce
learning from personal trading experience. |
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FAST II:
Futures and Options
Designed to teach modern
derivative pricing theory and application from personal
trading experience. Each topic progresses from a trading
exercise in the FTS Virtual Markets, to learn important
concepts, and finishes with application of the concept to
real world markets using the FTS Modules. It is well known
that arbitrage is a powerful driver of price discovery but
FAST II demonstates that arbitrage is a powerful driver of
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FAST III:
Market Microstructure
Designed around market
structure, design and trading. The advanced FTS Interactive
Market Software enables different types of markets to be
conducted. It puts you in control for conducting Call
Markets, Continuous Double Auctions, Treasury Auctions,
Pre-market Auctions with price discovery, Post Market
auctions using closing prices. Trade specific features are
available in terms of margins, different dealing rights and
more. |
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From a teaching perspective you
can see how the Virtual Classroom is designed for teaching
by clicking on
For
Instructors. Alternatively from a student's
perspective click on
For Students.
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