Information drives the critical decisions people make in the finance world, and nothing delivers more information than technology. In this 1,500-square-foot center, you’ll have everything you need and more to master financial theories and create your own.

• 31 computer workstations each with a gigabit Ethernet connection, a T-1 Internet connection and two 19-inch LCD monitors to view more information simultaneously
• two Translux wallboards displaying currency and interest rates, bond prices and data from NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange
• a scrolling ticker display delivering real-time market data, such as stock prices
• two televisions providing up-to-the-minute financial news
• high-capacity servers supporting simulations, data warehousing, database development and file storage

From each workstation, students have access to sophisticated software and data feeds:

• Bloomberg and First Call provide real-time financial information, including securities quotes, fundamentals, sector and index analysis and technical analysis.
• Reuters BridgeStation for Athena charting and full depth of the market at a single glance.
• CRSP (Center for Research in Security Prices at the University of Chicago) data for common stocks, market indices, NASDAQ and S&P 500 composite indices, NASDAQ and American Stock Exchange industry indices, U.S. Treasury bonds and mutual funds, plus market capitalization reports, proxy graphs for Securities and Exchange Commission filings and custom datasets.
• DataStream Advance 4.0 for current and historical time series data on stocks, bonds, futures, interest rates, commodities, derivatives, exchange rates and economic data.
• Financial Trading System to allow professors to teach in a virtual trading room, so students learn finance theory by acting as market traders
• Option Simulator for studying option-pricing models
• Option Volatility for studying changes in underlying assets and options
• Research Insight for financial modeling, multiple regression, industry analysis, stock screening, stock selection and back testing (testing a trading strategy on prior time periods)
• CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange) Options ToolBox for exchange-traded equity options, index options and Long-Term Equity AnticiPation Securities (LEAPS)