The globally renowned student competition Traders Trophy Worldwide, arranged by Oxyor, will be held in India for the first time this year. The 2011 Traders Trophy India event is being presented by Religare Capital Market and is held in partnership with the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE).
Traders Trophy Worldwide is a competition for students in trading financial instruments. Similar events have been held in Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, Switzerland, South Africa, USA, Sweden, Lebanon, The Netherlands and other countries around the globe. It is being held in 15 countries over 4 continents this year and the winners of each country will be invited for the world finals to be held in Amsterdam in May 2011.
In Traders Trophy Worldwide, the participants trade one or more securities in a fictive market. They trade with each other and fictive market players. Their results are based on profitability, risk management, client service and market awareness.
The qualification rounds of the India Traders Trophy is being held at the Kolkata, Bangalore and Ahmedabad campuses of Indian Institute of Management. The best 10 student traders from the qualification rounds at each of these Universities, will be invited for the final which will be held at the National Stock Exchange in Mumbai on 14th February, 2011. The best student trader of India will qualify for the world final in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in May 2011. The world finals will be a ten day event and will include intensive financial markets training for the participants by Oxyor.
Traders Trophy Worldwide is an initiative of and powered by Oxyor, an internationally renowned financial training firm based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands..Oxyor provides financial learning and development services globally. Oxyor helps professionals – from interns to board members – to maximize their performance both as individuals and as teams in the financial marketplace.
About Oxyor
Oxyor has been providing financial training globally since 1996, and have trained over 3,500 people to succeed in a variety of financial areas. Among the clients of Oxyor are renowned organizations like RBS, Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Standard Bank, ING, Investec.
Oxyor has a vast experience in delivering trading simulations and have run the trading simulations in its current format in more than 200 sessions over a period of 10 years in more than 40 trading competitions in different formats.
About Religare Capital Markets
Religare Capital Markets Limited (RCML) is part of Religare Enterprises Limited (REL) – an emerging markets financial services group. REL is committed to create in RCML a global emerging markets focused Investment banking and Institutional Securities business. RCML is continually adding to its suite of products and strengthening its team.
The division’s principal business activities comprise institutional broking including research, sales and execution services in emerging market equities, and investment banking which include equity capital markets and M&A advisory services, to corporate and institutional clients worldwide.
About NSE
The National Stock Exchange (NSE) operates a nation-wide, electronic market, offering trading in Capital Market, Derivatives Market and Currency Derivatives segments. Today NSE network stretches across more than 1,500 locations in the country and supports more than 2, 30,000 terminals. Globally, NSE is the 2nd largest Stock Exchange in terms of Index options and Stock futures contracts traded, 3rd largest Index futures contracts and 4th largest in terms of number of equity trades.
With offerings in more than 10 asset classes, NSE has taken many initiatives to strengthen the securities industry and has launched several new products for trading in India like Long Dated Options, Currency and Interest Rate Derivatives etc. Responding to market needs, services like Mutual Fund Service System, DMA, FIX capabilities, co-location and mobile trading are available on NSE to facilitate different categories of investors.
