A Futures Trading Experiment: An Active Classroom Approach to Learning

David Mitchell, Kenneth Hunsader and Scott Parker

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This paper presents a classroom experiment where students participate in a simulated futures market. This experiment can be run in about an hour and allows students to interact, negotiate, try different strategies, see how their accounts are closed, and observe how spot and futures markets relate. After participating in the futures experiment, students participate in a debriefing session to help them solidify their learning. This experiment can be successfully adopted in undergraduate finance education

Keywords: futures markets; closing; spot markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A22 G13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011, Revised 2011
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Published in Journal of Economics and Finance Education 10.1(2011): pp. 10-27

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