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CME Group Commodity Trading Challenge
| We would like to thank all of our 2012 CME Group Trading Challenge participants and for making this year’s competition a success! We look forward to the competition in 2013! Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Open Outcry Trading Challenge in Houston: 1st - Brooke A. Weldon, Suffolk University 2nd - Drew Puchot, University of Houston- Downtown 3rd - Blythe Perez, University of Houston 4th - Zhen Li, Suffolk University 5th - Sameed Gagai, University of Houston Runners Up: Benjamin L. Barr, University of Houston Max Dobrushkin, University of Texas-Dallas Lateef B. Frierson, University of Houston Peter Watson, University of Houston Allyson Quintana, University of Houston Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Open Outcry Trading Challenge in Chicago: 1st - Tarek Alruri, Indiana University 2nd - Chang Xu, Ohio State University 3rd - Ross Ward, University of Houston 4th - Michael P. Brown, Menlo College 5th - Chelsea Shupe, Stevens Institute of Technology Runners Up: Joseph Busch, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology Michael Groff, University of Dayton Christopher Hakim, University of Windsor Derek Mulvey, Stevens Institute of Technology Marc LeBoeuf, Menlo College Congratulations to the top 4 teams of the 2012 Electronic Trading Challenge: 1. University of Chicago 2. Chicago State University 3. Princeton University 4. Menlo College |
2012 Participating Schools
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| Event Sponsors Sponsorship Level Details  CME Group - CME Group is the world's leading and most diverse derivatives exchange. Building on the heritage of CME, CBOT and NYMEX, CME Group serves the risk management needs of customers around the globe. As an international marketplace, CME Group brings buyers and sellers together on the CME Globex electronic trading platform and on trading floors in Chicago and New York. By acting as the buyer to every seller and the seller to every buyer, CME Clearing virtually eliminates counterparty credit risk. CME Clearing also offers $8 billion in financial safeguards to help mitigate systemic risk, providing the security and confidence market participants need to operate, invest and grow. CME Group offers the widest range of benchmark products available across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, and alternative investment products such as weather and real estate. CME Group is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol "CME." www.cmegroup.com  University of Houston Finance Association - The University of Houston Finance Association is dedicated to both our members and the community we reside in. Our main focus is to help each of our student members perfect their professional and personal networking skills through company information sessions, workshops, finance competitions, and sporting events. By building corporate partnerships within the Houston business community, our members have access to the knowledge, insight, and network they need to achieve personal and professional success.www.bauerfa.org Technology Sponsor  CQG - CQG leads the way in providing analytics software and trading solutions. Their market data delivery and order routing services are the industry's fastest, most reliable, and best priced.www.cqg.com Platinum Sponsors  BP - BP is one of the world's largest energy companies, providing its customers with fuel for transportation, energy for heat and light, retail services and petrochemicals products for everyday items. www.bp.com  ConocoPhillips - ConocoPhillips is an international, integrated energy company. It is the third-largest integrated energy company in the United States, based on market capitalization, oil and gas proved reserves and production; and the second-largest refiner in the United States. Worldwide, of nongovernment-controlled companies, ConocoPhillips has the sixth-largest total of proved reserves; and based on crude oil capacity, is the fifth-largest refiner. www.conocophillips.com  Flow Traders- Flow Traders, named ETF Market Maker Europe 2010 by the Global ETF awards, is an international leader in electronic arbitrage trading. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Amsterdam with offices in New York and Singapore, Flow Traders trades equities as well as derivatives, currencies and bonds on exchanges around the world. Distinguishing itself with razor-sharp technology, Flow stays ahead of the competition by focusing on speed and niche competencies in markets where every second counts. Effective arbitrage trading consists of seizing opportunities in fleeting, simultaneous price differences in related financial products. It requires access to the best information and the ability to respond instantly. To achieve this, Flow develops its own software in-house. Our team of software developers works in partnership with experienced traders to identify and execute tomorrow’s strategies, making Flow a daily pioneer in professional trading. Flow, a privately held financial firm, keeps pace with global markets. Growth, by continually building its team of exceptional talent. Our business expands each day by adding new products across an ever-broadening range of markets around the globe. But the backbone of our success is the collection of creative doers, thinkers, and above all, believers who form our team. We at Flow believe in the team effort and value our people. We like to think that talent grows at Flow and stays at Flow. To ensure this, we provide our employees with the best working environment, the latest technology, continuous support, and we go out of our way to retain the small business feeling with which we have started.  OTC Global Holdings Formed in 2007, OTC Global Holdings (OTCGH) is headquartered in Houston and New York, with additional offices in Chicago, Jersey City, London and Louisville. OTCGH is a leading independent interdealer broker in over the counter commodities and the largest liquidity provider to CME ClearPort and ICE Clear U.S. Through its subsidiaries the company holds a dominant market share in the U.S. and Canadian natural gas markets, the U.S. power markets, crude oil and crude oil options, crude oil products and crude oil product options, agricultural and soft commodities, as well as structured weather and emission derivatives. The company serves more than 250 institutional clients, including 45 members of the Fortune 500, and transacts at over 150 different commodity delivery points. To learn more about the company, please visit www.otcgh.com or go to http://bit.ly/OTCYouTube.  Shell - Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies. With 104,000 employees in more than 110 countries, we play a key role in helping to meet the world's growing demand for energy in economically, environmentally and socially responsible ways. www.shell.com  Topstep Trader - TopstepTrader is a trading development and recruitment firm which specializes in being a "one stop shop" for current and potential futures traders. We seek, develop, and financially back those who demonstrate a strong aptitude for trading. Founded under the premise of recruiting college students with an interest in becoming a futures trader, TopstepTrader provides the education and proper learning community needed for one to become a successful trader. Individuals who show consistent profitability will then be backed with a fully funded live trading account. Students have an opportunity to begin their career as a trader while still in school, thus reducing the barrier of entry into the trading world by recruiting and hiring traders based purely on skill, regardless of background or prior experience. Students will screen trade remotely from their campus around their school schedule, and as a live trader will earn up to 80% of their trading profits. More information about TopstepTrader's development and recruitment opportunities may be found on their website: http://www.topsteptrader.com. Gold Sponsors  Amerex Brokers LLC and GFI Group Inc. - Founded in 1978, Amerex is a leading over-the-counter energy brokerage offering services in electricity, natural gas, emission credits and allowances, renewable energy credits, retail energy procurement, energy consulting and energy data services. From its office in Houston, Amerex offers liquidity and timely execution to meet the needs of a global client network of more than 1,000 firms including thousands of traders and risk management professionals. For additional information, please visit www.amerexenergy.com. Amerex Brokers LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of GFI Group Inc. (NASDAQ:GFIG), a leading inter-dealer broker specializing in over-the-counter derivatives products and related securities. GFI provides brokerage services, trading system software and market data and analytics software products for a range of credit, financial, equity and commodity instruments. GFI operates one of the largest OTC energy brokerage businesses in North America both directly and through its Amerex and StarSupply businesses. Silver Sponsors |
| We would like to thank all of our 2012 CME Group Trading Challenge participants and for making this year’s competition a success! We look forward to the competition in 2013! Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Open Outcry Trading Challenge in Houston: 1st - Brooke A. Weldon, Suffolk University 2nd - Drew Puchot, University of Houston- Downtown 3rd - Blythe Perez, University of Houston 4th - Zhen Li, Suffolk University 5th - Sameed Gagai, University of Houston Runners Up: Benjamin L. Barr, University of Houston Max Dobrushkin, University of Texas-Dallas Lateef B. Frierson, University of Houston Peter Watson, University of Houston Allyson Quintana, University of Houston Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Open Outcry Trading Challenge in Chicago: 1st – Tarek Alruri, Indiana University 2nd - Chang Xu, Ohio State University 3rd - Ross Ward, University of Houston 4th - Michael P. Brown, Menlo College 5th - Chelsea Shupe, Stevens Institute of Technology Runners Up: Joseph Busch, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology Michael Groff, University of Dayton Christopher Hakim, University of Windsor Derek Mulvey, Stevens Institute of Technology Marc LeBoeuf, Menlo College Thank you to all of our participants this year! Final Electronic Trading Challenge Results (XLS) Congratulations to our top 4 teams from the 2012 Electronic Trading Challenge representing the following schools: 1. University of Chicago 2. Chicago State University 3. Princeton University 4. Menlo College We would like to thank all of our teams for participating in this year's challenge! Preliminary Round Final Results (XLS) |
| The Finance Association at the University of Houston and CME Group are managing various aspects of the competition. For specific questions or for more information, please contact: Electronic Trading and Chicago Open Outcry Competitions Curt Zuckert CME Group +1 312 604 6550 Curt.Zuckert@cmegroup.com Trading Platform provided by CQG CQG Support +1 212 809 8893 CommodityTradingChallenge@cqg.com Houston Open Outcry Competitions University of Houston +1 713 391 4087 corporaterelations@bauerfa.org |
| Chicago Open Outcry Trading Challenge – March 23, 2012 |
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| Houston Open Outcry Trading Challenge – March 31, 2012 |
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