Rotman International Trading Competition

[JJJaJ]

Hey guys. Has anybody here even been to the Rotman International Trading Competition in Toronto? I had an acquaintance that went and mention it and he said good things but itd be pretty useful to get more detail about this. I've looked at its website at http://ritc.rotman.utoronto.ca/ and I'd like to hear any firsthand experiences.

Thanks,
J

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Yes, members here participated in that event last year
2009 Rotman International Trading Competition - Forum | Quant Network
Baruch goes to Canada - Forum | Quant Network

 

[Joy Pathak]

The software (RIT) is a lot of fun.

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There is an EVEN BIGGER competition at CME every year.

Both are a good time. Great way to network also.

 

[Eugene Krel]

The CME one looks pretty cool, except the location.

Houston, really?!?!?!?!?

 

[Yike Lu]

Houston, the fattest city in the US of A.

 

[Joy Pathak]

The CME one looks pretty cool, except the location.

Houston, really?!?!?!?!?

University of Houston started the competition. Also, majority of the oil companies are located in Houston along with CME offices.

It is very cool.

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Houston, the fattest city in the US of A.

Huntington, West Virginia.

 

[Yike Lu]

Aggh the rankings keep changing! It's not Huntington though, it doesn't even make Men's Health's list.

 

[Eugene Krel]

CME's exchange is in Chicago, hence I demand all competitions happening on CME take place in Chicago!

 

[Joy Pathak]

CME's exchange is in Chicago, hence I demand all competitions happening on CME take place in Chicago!

They actually have had parts in New York (NYMEX) in Chicago (CBOT/CME) and in Houston. It's not a 2 day competition like Rotman. It's spread out.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Rotman posted the list of teams joining their RITC 2011 trading competition
Rotman International Trading Competition

I see Baruch MFE, Chicago Math Finance teams there

 

[Volatility Stalker]

2010 Tulane Energy Trading Competition

Tulane also started an Energy trading contest since last year.

The 2010 competition just finished up last week.

CME is the event underwriter and some energy and trading data firms are the sponsors.

87 teams from 33 Universities participating in the 2010 Tulane Energy Trading Competition!

Here's the link for more details:

http://www.freeman.tulane.edu/trading/2010/results.php

 

[myampol]

Rotman 2011 results:

http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20110222.115825&time=13 54 PST&year=2011&public=0

Overall rankings:

1st place: M.I.T. (second consecutive year)
2nd place: University of Chicago
3rd place: CUNY / Baruch College
4th place: Northwestern University
5th place: University of Toronto / Rotman School of Business

The team from CUNY / Baruch College won the Algorithmic HFT section of the competition, and also placed among the top 5 teams (out of 46 participants) in three additional sections of the competition:

3rd place: Alpha ATS: Sales and Trader
3rd place: Thomson Reuters Quantitative and Event Driven trading
5th place: Interest Rates trading

Congrats to all who participated!

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Congrats to all who participate (@amanda.jayne @Alexei Smirnov @Yike Lu @David Rappaport)
I think the Baruch MFE program has something good going with regard to algo trading since they just recently start a new course on that subject.