Egade Business School Creates Stock Trading Simulation Center in its Financial Lab

Wavetec has installed a ticker of 32 meters in length and a resolution of 7,872×64 Pixels, which is integrated with the Thomson Reuters feed in order to present real-time financial information to students, so that they can experience and learn how stock marketing is operated.

Egade is the graduate business school of Tecnológico de Monterrey, a university recognized in Mexico and Latin America for training professionals with an entrepreneurial spirit, internationally competitive and value-generating.

The use of visual aids and interactive screens in educational institutions is becoming a fundamental aspect in the delivery of education and for the explanation of new concepts. As part of the Egade Business School's commitment to innovate as well as its mission to develop business leaders with an entrepreneurial spirit and internationally competitive, decided to implement a turnkey solution, to create a stock trading simulation center in its Financial Lab for Finance students.

With this simulated stock trading environment I intended to impart a robust understanding of the financial industry with a practical approach that will allow students to apply their knowledge about the field of finance to online trading information, in real time, presented on the screen and thus know the mechanisms of stock trading.

For the implementation of this project, the technology of Wavetec, that installed a ticker of 32 meters in length per 26 cm high, with a resolution of 7,872×64 Pixels. This display is located along the walls of the laboratory and integrated with the Thomson Reuters source. It presents real-time financial information to students, allowing them to experience and learn how stock marketing is operated.

"Wavetec specializes in providing comprehensive LED solutions to financial markets and institutions. This project contributes to the creation of a practical Financial Laboratory, making learning more attractive", explains Germán Martínez, Wavetec's regional manager in Latin America.