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Student Support Page

 
pictureThe trading approach to learning finance has benefited students at the business schools around the globe who have adopted the FTS system.  This is because learning and real world experience become fused together enabling abstract concepts and practices, such as derivative pricing theory and financial engineering, to be reduced to the problem of assessing trading profits from alternative strategies!   

Members of finance clubs, if interested in learning the finer points of trading and conducting trading competitions, should encourage their supporting instructor to contact FTS to see how easy this can be set up.

In addition, we draw your attention to the Trading Competition link at the top of this page for current information about competitions where not only you may earn significant prize money, but you get the chance of getting noticed by the professional trading houses around the globe.

When you log into the Virtual Classroom page you will see that it consists of three major parts:

i.  FTS Trader

ii. Real Time Position Manager

iii. FTS Modules

An overview of the support for these components is provide below.

  FTS Trader  Support
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Log into the Virtual Classroom and the FTS Trader is in the top left side.  Online support is provided below the FTS Trader link as two hypertext labels:

i.  FTS Trader Help and

ii.  FTS Trader Support Spreadsheets

The FTS Trader Help provides an online description of the base trading cases, a fast start to using the FTS Trader, and an overview of markets and the drivers of how prices are discovered from trading in a market.  Finally, an additional link provides detailed help for commonly asked questions.

The second link lets you download an Excel spreadsheet support for some specific cases.  In particular, this provides a real time derivative support system for these cases.

  FTS:  Real Time Position Manager
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Log into the Virtual Classroom and the FTS Real Time Position Manager is at the top right side.  Online support is provided below the FTS Real Time Manager link as two hypertext labels as depicted.

The first link covers general setting up details and the second link provides an example of how to track the entire S&P100 index.

Tip:  An easy way of using the real time position manager is to exploit the web parsing ability of Excel and then link the Real Time Position Manager directly to Excel.

  FTS:  Modules
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Log into the Virtual Classroom and the FTS Modules are below the trading section.  Click on Help under either the Equity, Bond or Derivative Modules and you will see the page depicted to the left.

You can always reach module specific help directly by clicking on the menu item Help within a module and then selecting the sub menu item Module Specific Help.

Each module has operating instructions as well as online lessons.

 
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