17/02/2021
With great delight and excitement, ATIS launches the Virtual Fund Competition today. Open to all Aston University with any kind of financial trading literacy/experience.
The competition will have the participants divided into groups and each group will contest with virtual fund of 50k using Trading212 as our platform.
Biweekly we will assess the progress, evaluate the positions taken and have workshops based on topics which can be empirically implemented by the groups contesting.
There will be 2 prizes to win:
1) For best return generated across all groups.
2) For best analytical explanation of trading cycle and careful explanation future outlook.
We will also have guest speakers to join us on our biweekly society meetings to advise or hold a parallel discussion of the market, economy or trading intermittently.
Join us this evening at 6pm via the link on our bio for full details about the competition.
We also have the Workshop Manager, Sam Babalola, whose presentation will be about the sudden trend in memestocks trading, especially GameStop, which became fiercely volatile.
Looking forward to meet you all tonight!