Finance

The Trading Room

• Location: Business Leadership Building.

Important Documents

• SPRING 2012 SCHEDULE (Sunday, Feb. 5-Thursday, May 3)
• Trading Room Mission and Policies
• How to Create a Bloomberg Account

Trading Room Policies

• The Mission of the Trading Room is to facilitate finance education and research through experiential learning. The Mission is accomplished by providing a state-of-the-art facility with cutting edge technology.
• The Trading Room supports the Student Investment Group and the research of faculty and students in the College of Business.
• The Trading Room is open on the same schedule as the Computer Labs in the BLB. The Trading Room can be scheduled according to the priorities established below. To determine availability, check the Trading Room calendar on the COB web site.
• The Trading Room is equipped with 11 computer terminals and one lap top computer with Bloomberg Professional access on all 12 computers. The room is equipped with stock tickers with 15 minute delay to actual market trading data.  The room is surrounded by stock tickers to allow users to view real market data as it becomes available.
• Faculty members in the Department of Finance, Insurance, Real Estate and Law and other departments in the College of Business schedule class meetings and laboratory times in the Trading Room.
• Faculty members can also request that certain hours in the Trading Lab be restricted to use by their students.
• By completing the Bloomberg Essentials Online Training Program, students can earn an Acknowledgment in Equities, Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange, and/or Commodities.
• From Noon to 2 p.m. on Sundays, the Trading Room will be restricted to persons who are seeking the Bloomberg Acknowledgement. Terminals will be available on a “first come, first served” basis during this time.  Activity in the room will be limited to ensure that those studying and testing for the Bloomberg Acknowledgment have a quiet place to study and take the exams.

Bloomberg Professional

• Bloomberg Professional is utilized by political and economic leaders for up to the minute information.
• Bloomberg Professional is a service that allows users to monitor and analyze real-time financial market data and trades.
• The system is a secure, proprietary network that provides information from over 129 countries and 250 exchanges. 
• Bloomberg also provides “real time” access to an amazing variety of news and information sources from around the globe.
• For more information about Bloomberg's financial services, please view this web site: http://www.bloomberg.com/professional/.
• Information on Bloomberg/Faculty cooperation is on the Bloomberg For Education site.
• For today's market news: see the Bloomberg.com site.
• Bloomberg Businessweek.
• Bloomberg Guide: learn how to use the Bloomberg Professional service (designed by the University of Florida).  

UNT College of Business

• Department of Finance, Insurance, Real Estate, and Law home page.
• College of Business home page.
• Information and Learning Technologies Center home page (covers the various computer labs, facilities, and lab hours).

Other Resources in the College Of Business & the UNT Libraries

• COB Tutor Labs | Find a COB Computer Lab | COB Virtual Lab Hours | CILTC
• Wharton Research Data Services in the College of Business (contact Cengiz Capan for specifics including password).
• Research Databases & Applications in the College of Business.
• Financial Research Databases in the College of Business.
• UNT Libraries' Electronic Resources / Business and Economics.
• UNT Libraries' Electronic Resources / Physical Sciences and Engineering.
• UNT Libraries' Title Search for Electronic Journals: search either the Serials Solutions database or the Online Catalog.
• Extra portal to get into the Libraries' system: Virtual Personal Network (VPN) https://vpn.unt.edu.
• UNT Libraries: Research Toolkits (Libraries' services for faculty & students), including Interlibrary Loan, putting material on Reserve, document delivery, off campus access, email alerts, style manuals, literature review techniques, database tutorials, journal acceptance rates, electronic dissertations, schedules of workshops. 

College of Business - Library Cooperation

• "The College of Business appreciates the support by the Libraries in helping the College of Business and the FIREL Department enhance the tools and information available to our students. We are delighted to add Bloomberg to that 'tool box' and to be able to share it with our colleagues."
  -- Dr. Marcia Staff