Amateur Financial Trading

Technology, Action and Cognition in Online Anonymous Markets.Dr Alexandru Preda from University of Edinburgh is researching the current decision making processes behind the increasing use of online anonymous markets being used by the rise in amateur financial traders.Based on the collection and analysis of naturally occurring data, the project investigates the cognitive processes which embed decision-making and planning in online financial markets. UD’s new Exelon Trading Center in Purnell Hall allows students to learn how to conduct trades the way it’s done on Wall Street.

The image above is the Exelon Trading Centre in University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics.The centre allows students to learn how to conduct trades the way it’s done on Wall Street. The software is the exact saem used in Wlall street eeryday and can be used to reenact the exact processes a trader would 250 days out of the year.