Trading Room

Where the Classroom Connects to the Financial World

The Trading Room at Florida Atlantic University's College of Business replicates a real-world trading experience and functions as a classroom and a laboratory.

FAU's College of Business is proud to invest in such a unique and advanced learning environment so that its business students and the business community at large can learn to excel in the financial services industry.

The Trading Room is FAU's first custom furnished multipurpose classroom, seating forty people and showcasing real time feeds from Reuters. The room features an external glass wall to allow the campus community to view the state-of-the-art technology, including a ticker board which displays market data for a variety of stocks, indices, bonds, currencies and commodities.

All seats in the Trading Room are equipped with The Trolley™ E-Class fully-automated monitor lift system from NOVA Solutions, Inc. With the push of a button, you can raise the computer screen from its hidden position beneath the desktop to a comfortable viewing height. Each of the seats has a Trolley E-Class automated monitor lift with a 24" widescreen flat panel display. The E-Class features automatic, retractable doors, push button operation, vertical monitor tilt, wire ports for peripherals, and USB Port Extension.

The mission of the Trading Room is to serve business students and the local business community by providing specialized courses, continuing education, executive training and real-time workshops on simulated trading, and other finance-related topics.

Trading Room Technology

The strength of Florida Atlantic University's Trading Room is directly correlated with its technology (hardware and software), infrastructure and design which transform the room into a credible simulated trading floor environment. The trading room features various types of trading software applications which incorporate the premier trading analytics and market data platforms used by professional traders, and which combine both academic and real world trading applications.

In addition to the software available in the Trading Room, it also features the latest in audio and video technology to bring the market and trading floor to the classroom.

The centerpiece of the Trading Room showcases real time feeds from Reuters, which refreshes 20 times every second. The data are displayed on two 64 block ticker boards – one in the front lobby of the room, and a streaming ticker that runs along the side and back walls.

Technology

Instructor Controlled:

• Integrated HD Audio-Visual System with user-friendly Crestron Control
• High bandwidth Internet connection
• HDMI and VGA laptop interfaces with embedded audio
• 24-inch Smart Podium Interactive pen display
• High Definition Document Camera
• Dual Dell P2212H 22-inch wide screen monitors
• Dual electronically controlled projection screens
• Dual Panasonic PT-DW8300U 10,000 lumen Wide screen 720p Projectors
• BluRay DVD Player
• Dell GX990 Instructor Minitower with:
• Core i7-2600, 3.4 GHz Processor
• 4 GB DDR3 1333 MHz RAM
• Dual 500 GB 6.0 Gb/s Hard Drives
• Dell AMD Radeon HD 6670 Graphics card with embedded 7.1 Surround Sound
• Dual wired Podium and Shure Wireless Microphones & PA
• Bose 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers
• Dual Tuner HD Satellite TV
• Whiteboard
• 10-ft Teaching Podium

Student Controlled Technology:

• Forty Dell GX790 Minitowers with:
• Core i5-2400 3.1 GHz Processors
• 500 GB 6.0 Gb/s SATA Hard Drives
• 4 GB DDR3 1333 MHz RAM
• Windows 7 Enterprise Edition
• Office 2010
• The Trolley™ E-Class fully-automated monitor lift system from NOVA Solution, Inc. with Dell Professional 2412 24-inch wide screen monitor
• Multipurpose Custom Fixed Tables

Trading Room Sponsorship and Support

The Trading Room's mission is translated through the support of:

• A business advisory board which assists in policy and curriculum development, ensuring that students and members of the business community receive top-level simulated and executive training.
• Internships with area organizations for students in financial training programs.
• Elite industry speakers