Students in the University of Colorado Denver Business School are competing in the
CME Group Commodity Trading Challenge.
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This is the first year that CU Denver student teams are participating in the challenge, which offers a unique chance for students to learn hands-on techniques for trading futures. Three CU Denver teams are entered in the 320-team international competition -- double the size of last year's field -- and will be trading crude oil, gold and corn futures.
CU Denver has entered two graduate-student teams, both part of the
Global Energy Management Program, and one undergraduate team. Ben Kahn, team leader of one of the graduate-student squads, said he and his teammates are interested in learning more about how the energy markets function.
"The competition is giving us a chance to participate in these markets," Kahn said. "Hopefully, it will provide us with a perspective on factors that affect energy prices, which we wouldn't have received otherwise."
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