Charles F. Dolan School of Business BEST Classroom

Foreign Exchange Trading Contest 2007 Sign-up and Instructions (PPT)

Welcome to the Business Education Simulation and Trading (BEST) Classroom web page. BEST is located in DSB 114 and also has a resource room (DSB 113) with all software installed on five workstations that is accessible any time DSB is open with your Stagcard.

The classroom has:

• Stock ticker and a data wall displaying real time quotes
• 34 workstations loaded with software including:
  • RITC (Rotman Interactive Trader) for market trading simulations
  • Reuters terminals with up to the minute business and economic news
  • Datastream, an economics and financial database
  • Research Insight including Compustat and Global Vantage containing financial information on every publicly trading company in the world
  • CRSP with stock returns for all U.S. companies
• Two screens in the front of the room enable the projection of two different images simultaneously

To help you explore the future possibilities of BEST, on the right you will find links to "BEST Software", which contains links to instructions for using software, and "Links", which has links to virtual and financial markets that are useful for reference.