The ACG Simulated Trading Room

Where high-end technology meets a real-world trading experience

The ACG Simulated Trading Room is a state-of-the-art trading room, unique in its kind in the region of Southeastern Europe. Operating since January 2018, the Simulated Trading Room is true to ACG’s vision to provide transformative education to its students and to help reinvigorate Greece through education and knowledge sharing.

A distinctive training and research opportunity

The ACG Simulated Trading Room is built to offer its students a real-world trading experience through specially designed Financial Markets Trading courses. As such it broadens students’ knowledge of financial services, promotes awareness of the global financial markets and increases employability of ACG graduates by providing students with unique training in Greece and a competitive edge in the domestic and international job market.

The technology

The ACG Simulated Trading Room provides a real sense of technological sophistication, bringing financial markets to the students’ fingertips through cutting-edge software and hardware. Recreating a professional financial environment, the ACG Simulated Trading Room is supported by the latest trends in technology featuring:

25 PC stations with dual monitors
2 Interactive Ultra short throw projectors
Instructor document camera
High definition PTZ conference camera
Satellite TV
4 (65”) TVs
Integrated sound system with wireless instructor microphone
27 feet Full Color LED Ticker display with access to stock information
Full high speed wireless connectivity
Video conferencing

The Simulated Trading Room will also operate a number of software programs, among which:

A unique for a higher education institution Thomson Reuters FXT closed group dealing system
Thomson Reuters EIKON database (formerly Datastream)
Bloomberg
NASDAQ Morning Star
TRADEREX
Palisade
Rotman