The Smeal College Trading Room Gary Field, Manager

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The Smeal College Trading RoomGary Field,
Manager
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Mission Objectives

• Undergraduate Education
• Research
• Financial Profession Training
• Networking and Visibility
• Outreach

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Undergraduate Education

• Specialized lab specific business and Smeal
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• Mock trading equities, futures
• Remote lectures via video conference

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Research

• Lots of data
• Bloomberg 2 stations, extensive
• Factset 40 licenses, news, analytics
• Tradestation easy, lots of strategies
• Informal seminars given on software

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People

• gt Founding Director Randy Woolridge
• gt Academic Director David Haushalter
• gt Manager Gary Field (1/2 time)
• 25 interns

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What the trading room can do for you

• Provides the opportunity to experience financial
  concepts you teach in class. Helps bridge the gap
  from the classroom to the financial markets.
• The Smeal Trading Room gives students access to
  software used extensively at financial firms.
  This knowledge is invaluable when applying for
  internships and jobs . . . . differentiates our
  students .

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Your Smeal College Trading Room

• What is it?
• Bloomberg and Factset, two of the most widely
  used software systems in the finance community
• TradeStation, offers real time market
  information, testing of trading strategies
• Rotman Trading System, allows mock trading
• Trading Technologies futures trading software
  used by 60 of all brokerage firms
• 46 workstations with dual screens
• Three 50 inch plasma televisions and a 20 speaker
  sound system
• Breakout Room
• Live ticker and tote boards
• A very loud bell

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Smeal College Trading Room

• Where is it?
• First floor of the Business Building, Shortlidge
  entrance
• When is it open?
• Regular hours 9 am to 6 pm, M-F, exclusive of
  classes
• 24 / 7 access is available with authorization
• Who can use it?
• Any Penn State faculty/staff/student

Trading Room
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How do I get involved?

• Stop in and use systems
• Application Handouts and lab assistants are the
  available to help
• Intranet page
• Attend weekly seminars
• Presentations and classes by Bloomberg and
  Reuters
• Lecture series
• Attend Trading Competitions
• Trading Intra-Penn State, University of Toronto,
  A Penn State sponsored global competition in
  spring
• Hang Out
• The TR provides students with a professional
  atmosphere where financial knowledge becomes
  commonplace
• Network

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How can I learn more?

• Announcement of events
• Email to all Smeal students
• Web page also updated regularly
• http//www.smeal.psu.edu/traderoom/index.html
• https//intranet.smeal.psu.edu/traderoom/index.htm
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• Questions
• TradingRoom_at_email.smeal.psu.edu
• or just stop by the room