“Provide students with an edge in
the marketplace”
The mission of the Gould Trading Floor is to serve as an additional
“tool of knowledge” that will allow students to acquire
necessary skills demanded by today’s volatile business
environment, providing students an edge in the marketplace.
The Centre’s main mission is to help students understand the
trading environment through real and simulated trading simulations.
These simulations give students the opportunity to have real trading
experiences that real traders have. The simulated cases teach
students market behavior, market structure, market integration,
market (in)efficiency, mechanics of trading, price discovery, market
expectations, and market arbitrage.
The Centre serves as an essential link between the University, the
exchanges, the financial services industry, and the business
community at large where areas of common interest can be addressed.
The University gains additional exposures to the business community
and potential employers have access to a pool of skilled,
knowledgeable, and a highly motivated workforce.
It is a “research resource” for faculty and students, where
research on behalf of the business community can be carried out. The
GTF is also a “Community Centre”, where specialized
courses/seminars are developed to serve all types of investors from
the every beginner to the highly sophisticated. Providing individual
investors with the needed knowledge and means to manage their own
wealth.
The Center also serves as a resource for the business community.
Financial institutions can use the Centre for training new
employees, upgrading the skills of existing staff, and
development/testing of new products.
The Gould Trading Floor is a state of the art facility located in
the Michael G. DeGroote School of Business. The Centre houses a wide
variety of sophisticated machinery currently used by all the major
stock exchanges as well as the large brokerage houses.
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