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CME Group Commodity Trading Challenge
| Welcome to the CME Group Commodity Trading Challenge where colleges and universities from across the country compete in a fast- paced electronic and open outcry trading competition. This competition was originally created by The New York Mercantile Exchange and the University of Houston over ten years ago with just a small number of schools on the roster. As the markets have grown however, so has the competition, with 85 schools participating in 2011. In addition to the electronic trading segment, the University of Houston continues to serve as host for the Houston Open Outcry competition and this year we have moved the second Open Outcry component of the competition to Chicago. Thank you to all of our sponsors and participating schools for making this unique trading experience a reality.  Follow us on Twitter! Receive the latest challenge news including daily team standings and event highlights by searching the #CMEChallenge hash tag. Details: The electronic component is team based and runs for four weeks: • Products Traded: Crude Oil and Gold Futures • Practice Round: February 13-15, 2012 • Preliminary Round: February 15 – March 1, 2012 • National Finals: March 5-16, 2012 Scholarships will be awarded for the winning teams in the electronic portion. There is also an optional open out-cry component where individual students can test their skills while on location: • NEW LOCATION Chicago: March 23, 2012 Chicago Hotel Information (PDF) • Houston: March 31, 2012 View the complete competition rules before registering. Registration now open for Chicago and Houston Open Outcry events. Chicago will close registration once the maximum capacity has been reached. Registration for the Electronic Trading competition is now closed. 
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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.  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 global scouting agency seeking futures trading talent, located on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. TopstepTrader is a "one stop shop" for futures trading talent, by providing the tools and education necessary to become a successful trader. TopstepTrader hires and financially-backs futures traders who prove they are profitable, disciplined and consistent, while trading in their Combine, which is a live, real-time market simulation. The TopstepTrader program is the first of its kind, and is perfect for current college students and recent graduates, because it combines a trader development program with the opportunity to be hired as a futures trader. More information about TopstepTrader’s development and recruitment opportunities may be found on their website: http://www.topsteptrader.com. Smarter technology. Intuitive controls. Collaborative teamwork. Better results. TradeForecaster Global Markets LLC represents a new way of thinking about financial futures trading, and the future of technology. www.tradeforecaster.com Gold Sponsors Silver Sponsors |
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| 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 |
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