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University & student trading competitions
Where track records start. Simulated portfolios, campus finance cups and national student championships, with every winner recorded under their own name.
Why these sit apart
These run on simulated capital for small prizes, so they are kept off the main calendar, where the entries are live-money events with real prize pools. That is a judgement about the event, not about the traders in it. Every winner here is recorded under their own name, gets a trader profile and appears in results next to the professionals, on the same permanent record.
Ming Chuan UniversityA campus trading competition is a contest run by a university, a business school or a national student body, in which entrants trade a simulated portfolio over a fixed period and are ranked on return. Most run on paper money. Entry is normally free and restricted to enrolled students, and prizes tend to be modest: a few thousand dollars, scholarships, internships, or simply the title.
That makes them a poor fit for a calendar built around prize pools, and a very good place to find traders early. The format is the same one the professional championships use: a fixed window, a public leaderboard, a verifiable result. Only the stakes differ.
The most-cited results in this sport were posted by people nobody had heard of at the time. Larry Williams was an advertising copywriter before the 1987 World Cup. Michelle Williams was seventeen. A verified track record is worth most when it starts early and runs unbroken, and almost nobody keeps one from their student years, because nobody was writing it down.
So we write it down. A result here is the first public entry in a record that keeps going: the same profile that holds a campus finance cup today holds whatever comes next. That is the whole reason these pages exist, and it is why the competitions sit in their own section while the people do not.
Eligibility is set by the organiser and is usually limited to currently enrolled students, sometimes to a single faculty or country. Registration windows are short and often close weeks before trading starts, so the date to watch is the registration deadline rather than the start date. Each listing links straight to the organiser’s own page, which is the only authoritative source for rules and eligibility.
A contest run by a university, business school or national student body in which entrants trade a simulated portfolio over a fixed period and are ranked on return. Entry is usually free and limited to enrolled students, and prizes range from a few thousand dollars to scholarships and internships.
Almost always, yes. Organisers fund them as educational outreach or as a recruiting channel, so there is normally no entry fee. What they do restrict is eligibility: most are open only to currently enrolled students, and some only to a single faculty or country.
No. Campus competitions run on simulated capital, which is why they are listed separately from the live-money events on the main calendar. The ranking is still a real measurement of trading decisions over a fixed window.
The main calendar is organised around live-money events with real prize pools, and mixing simulated student contests into it makes both harder to read. The separation applies to the listing only. Winners are recorded on trading-tournaments.com exactly like any other result and appear in the results feed and in trader profiles alongside professional champions.
Check this page first, then your faculty of finance or economics directly. Many campus competitions are announced only on the university's own site and never reach the trading press, which is why this listing exists. If you know of one that is missing, send it to us and we will add it.