The Competition
The UChicago Trading Competition is the nation’s premier algorithmic trading competition. Senior members of the Financial Markets Program develop case studies designed to challenge participants in multiple aspects and themes of trading. Participants are asked to develop algorithms to make automated trading decisions, and will have their technical programming skills, financial acumen, and ability to adjust based on algorithm performance tested.
I learned a lot about how to setup an algorithm, something I wasn't taught in class. It was a really rewarding experience and taught me to think outside the box!”
—2020 Student Participant
Benefits
Last year the competition awarded over $13,000 in prize money, and a similar amount of prize money is anticipated this year.
Teams will have the opportunity to network with over a dozen trading and financial firms throughout the two-day competition. Competition events, hosted by Platinum sponsors, will begin on Friday afternoon.
Respected Participants
Many of the colleges and universities represented at the UChicago Trading Competition are celebrated for providing students with robust educations, especially in fields related to finance and business. Some of the colleges and universities that have participated in the competition include:
The competition was exciting and the trading and teamwork skills I developed will help me with my career goals.”
—2021 Student Participant
- Amherst College
- Baruch College
- Brandeis University
- Bryn Mawr College
- California Institute of Technology
- California State University at San Luis Obispo
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Cornell University
- Dartmouth College
- Duke University
- Fudan University
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Harvard University
- Harvey Mudd College
- Johns Hopkins University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- New York University
- Northwestern University
- Princeton University
- Purdue University
- Stanford University
- Texas A&M University
- Tufts University
- The University of Chicago
- The University of Texas at Austin
- The University of Texas at Dallas
- Truman State University
- University of Buffalo
- University of California - San Diego
- University of California Davis
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of California, Irvine
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- University of Colorado
- University of Dayton
- University of Illinois
- University of Kentucky
- University of Michigan
- University of Minnesota
- University of North Carolina
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Ottawa
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Southern California
- University of Virginia
- University of Waterloo
- University of Wisconsin
- Vanderbilt University
- Washington University
- Wesleyan University
- Western University in London, Ontario