About the University Trading Challenge

The University Trading Challenge was originally invisioned in late 2010.  We were aware of a few competitions targeting the graduating students seeking employement in the financial and capital markets.  A couple of them were good, but targeted towards the quant or were so convoluted as to who they were helpful for that no one could understand it, the rest of the competitions were (at best) so-so.  

We were asking each other: "so where are the competitions for the bulk of those seeking careers in the financial markets?  Where were the competitions that would allow for graduating students to show-case their talents?  Where were the programs that allowed for different universities to highlight their programs?"  

In response to those questions, we created the University Trading Challenge.

University Trading Challenge is a Brand of CapitalWave Inc.

CapitalWave Inc. is committed to "Developing Simulations" for both commercial and investment banks, corporate treasuries, and other financial institutions. Delivering solutions is different from delivering programs or courses.  We work hard to insure our programs are applicable, relevant and engaging.  We expect that those who use our simulations walk away with something that is applicable to their jobs today.  We will leave the 'educationally interesting programs' but lacking relevancy to other development firms.

Partners and Sponsors

In our approach toward creating the competition, we wanted to draw upon the skills of a number of companies.  While we have our corporate roots in corporate training within the capital markets, our current marketing was to allow students the opportunity to engage the same types of simulations and challenges that they  would encounter in a Analysts or Associate program.  To achieve this objective, we have partnered with both institutional as well as corporate training firms to create the type of challenge that would  

University Trading Challenge Core Principles

CapitalWave Inc.’s defining principles are embodied in our training programs and technology products. These are:

 •    Our training methods and products always meet our ACE principle: Achieving Competitive Excellence.
 •    Rather than conform to current paradigms of professional practice, we create new and unique collaborations between clients and us.
 •    Unrestricted by the limitations typical of business relationships, we seek to be sufficiently agile to create new solutions to training challenges.
 •    We consciously choose innovation and practicality over tradition and gimmicks.