Innovation and the Financial Trading System

FTS software forms the basis of the FAST Lab which has been recognized by the Smithsonian Institution as an example of "visionary and innovative use of information technology", and is now part of the permanent collection of the Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution.

Our tutor software, reviewed in the Journal of Finance, was called "a pioneering contribution to finance education."

FTS software is a comprehensive system that lets you create, within minutes, a fully operational educational trading room. It is designed around the concept of "active" or "experiential" learning. The FTS system, which has evolved over the last decade from extensive classroom testing, provides students with a step-by-step approach for learning finance from trading experience. By using this system students get to experience the effects of major concepts such as arbitrage free pricing, market efficiency, the time value of money, opportunity cost of capital and so on, from their own personal trading activities. You will discover that the discipline imposed by financial markets accelerates student ability for mastering difficult concepts.