Financial Information Management
LESSONS LEARNED
From past HTs
Critical Thinking
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No class on Thursday
Last homework due on Saturday
First SOFTWARE CLINIC on Friday
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Signup sheet outside my door
30 minutes max. per spot
Teams sign on (even if only one member attends)
Can reserve only one appointment at a time.
Two meetings minimum mandatory
Huge amount of hours BUT close to the tournament it gets harder to see me.
Email sign up on WHATSAPP for last-minute news on runs
and patches. “Hedge Tournament 2017”
Your Opinion Matters
 Name, Year, School
 Characterize your progress. Skills
learned?
 What you like
 What can be improved
Financial Information Management
SuperPrograms
Lessons learned (part II)
Team 10/07
Idea: Design for two screens
Idea: No comboboxes
Trades Per Team 2007
11,577 Trades
Transactions per Team 2017
Max. avg. trades per day = 7.74
Min. avg. trades per day = 1.33
Team 4/07
Idea: Make
it Chatty
Team 5/08 – The “Moneymaker”
Jerome Kerviel
Fund Management
AUDITED PERCENT TRACKING ERROR.
Team is in red, reference portfolio semitransparent
Idea: explore
new strategies
Cumulative Tracking Error 2007
M
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M
M
Cumulative Tracking Error 2017
T 14/07
Idea:
multiple
delta targets
% Errors per Transactions (2016)
Zero bug teams
Team 3 Fall 08 winners
AUDITED PERCENT TRACKING ERROR.
Team is in red, reference portfolio semitransparent
Idea: stay up
T2 and T8 Fall 09 – The Race
Financial Information Management
WINIT
What Is New
In Technology?
The two timers
Start
Check the date on the DB
Decrease the
seconds by 1
New date?
No
Less than 0?
Yes
No
Run daily
routine
Set seconds
to 60
Yes