Technology today has shaped students expectations of learning environments to be visual, dynamic and fun. Employers expect students to be able solve real world problems. An educational trading floor not only meets both sets of constraints but in a way that adds value to instructors. The Financial Trading System (FTS) lets you create an educational trading floor "out of the box" plus we maintain it for you at no extra cost! The latter results in substantial savings because any institution can create a personal educational trading floor without costly in-house computer support required.
This award winning software package has been created by professors for professors to let them work in the way they want to with their students. For example, we assign course specific login/password pairs so upon login what your students see is under your control. Students appreciate the convenience of being able to work on assigned real world problems from their own place and in their own time.
If you are involved in distant learning courses, you will find that using FTS is easy and much more rewarding to your students. This is because distant learning is a powerful teaching technique when learning is "by doing." With the Financial Trading System it doesn't really matter whether your students are in the same room or different parts of the globe. You maintain control over their learning experiences in the same way!
Try out a demonstration version of the system today by clicking on Try Demo (to run the demonstration version leave the login/password fields blank when prompted).
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Our web-based modules cover fixed income markets, equities and derivatives. They let you apply concepts taught in standard Investments and Corporate Finance courses to real world markets. We eliminate messy data collection by providing direct links. Whether you want construct the current implied volatility smile for the XYZ corporation or examine the impact of using the Fama and French factors upon both risk and return, our modules let you at the click of a mouse. Now you can assign the real world to your students with the same ease as assigning a text book problem. FTS software and trading cases let you create markets with price discovery over the web or on your own intranet. To see this in action see video of trading session in Chile. Each trading case is specially designed so that participants learn to apply concepts in a screen-based market. Just as arbitrage is a powerful driver of how markets discover prices, arbitrage is also a powerful driver of how markets promote learning. REAL-TIME FTS WEB-BASED MARKETS This web-based system lets you manage a real world multi-currency portfolio of stocks, bonds, and options. It links to real-time data feeds and can also automatically collect quotes from the Internet. In our third generation virtual classroom students learn by combining our web-based modules with our real time position manager. TUTORS Our award winning Tutor software, Option Tutor, CAPM Tutor and Bond Tutor, are currently being phased out. The reason is that they are have been replaced by our web based modules. Although these Tutors have received widespread acclaim, (e.g., Stocks and Commodities described Option Tutor as having the "...the power to take you where you want to go"), our web based modules demonstrate how to get the next generation in educational software today. If you are an individual investor or you are an individual who wants to learn more about how financial markets work the FTS modules now provide you with greater power than ever before. For individual users click on contact for information as to how you can acquire this software. |
OS Financial Trading System, PO Box 11356, Pittsburgh, PA 15238 USA, Phone 1-800-967-9897, International USA 412 9679367, Fax 1-412-967-5958, Email fts@ftsweb.com, www.ftsweb.com
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