The trading room provides students, researchers and professionals, access to real-time financial data, professional research tools, and leading analytic software replicating a real-life trading room environment. At other times, the floor functions as a classroom and laboratory for use by students and researchers. Through a large Bloomberg TV screen, and real-time ticker boards, visitors can view updated stock prices, exchange rates and market news.

Each of the 24 computers in the trading room is equipped with the latest software for simulated trading, settlement, portfolio management, and derivative pricing. Software Packages include:

Crystal Ball: A suite of Microsoft Excel add-ins, Crystal Ball software extends the analytical power of spreadsheets, letting users solve problems involving uncertainty and variability. Using Monte Carlo simulation and Distribution gallery, the program assigns ranges of values to inputs, automatically calculates thousands of scenarios in spreadsheet models and provides an intuitive interface for selecting distributions and describing the behavior of input variables. Crystal ball creates predefined distributions, modify existing distributions, and organize them according to custom categories. It is a powerful tool to analyze historical data to predict future outcomes using advanced time-series forecasting methods. The program searches for optimal solutions, taking into consideration model uncertainty, constraints, and requirements.

Real Option Analysis Toolkit : ROAT is an excel based software package. It runs by recombining binomial or trinomial lattices that are based on the volatility and the number of discretization steps specified by the user for the stochastic process assumed to be generating the value of the underlying real assets. ROAT is an appealing tool users interested in obtaining approximate solutions to the Black-Scholes options pricing formula using lattice representations.

E-views: It is a powerful statistical, forecasting, and modeling tool with an innovative, easy-to-use object-oriented interface. With E-Views, data can be easily and efficiently managed. The program performs econometric and statistical analysis, generates forecasts or model simulations, and produces high quality graphs and tables for publication or inclusion in other applications.

Portfolio Optimizer: The program applies the principles of Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) and the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) to analyzing and optimizing a portfolio of stocks and/or other asset classes. The portfolio optimization component uses mean-variance optimization (MVO) to determine the weightings of each asset required to produce a range of returns for the portfolio at the lowest possible risk (the efficient frontier).  The assets to be optimized can be individual assets or asset classes (e.g. equity and other indices, funds of a particular investment style, an industry sector). Minimum and maximum weights can be specified for each asset, including negative weights if short selling is permitted. An optimal portfolio is then estimated by maximizing the Sharpe ratio.  A minimum variance portfolio is also produced.

SPSS: I t is a statistical and data management package for analysts and researchers. SPSS is a modular, tightly integrated, full-featured software program for the analytical process-planning, data collecting, data access, data management and preparation, data analysis, reporting, and deployment.

Simulation Trading Game:  I t simulates the experience of trading in the stock market. The Simulation Trading Game is useful for everybody from beginners who have never placed a trade to sophisticated investors looking to test out advanced strategies. It is considered a powerful learning tool. 

The center provides students with unrivalled collection of databases , such as:

Reuters : It is a one-stop database for all news and financial data. It also provides advanced financial analyses for equities. Some interesting features:

• Historical Adjusted closing prices for all stocks (Egyptian stock exchange and international).
• Daily historical Open, close, high, low stock prices and volume of trade.
• All financial information on bonds, mutual funds and derivatives.
• Financial statements, ratios and news.
• Economic Indicators.
• Various technical analysis charting options.

Noozz : It offers the decision makers a powerful blend of news, market research and business services 'under one roof'. From the latest news provided by Reuters to the Economist Intelligence Unit's research, it brings together information sourced from key publishers and business specialists.

• All Economist Intelligence Unit, Business Monitor as well as Noozz research reports. These encompass not only economic reports, but also political and industry sectoral reports.
• Brokerage firms’ comprehensive stock recommendation reports (i.e. sell, buy, strong buy)
• Latest business and economic news by the hour.
• The Market section provides an overview of the stock market and major indices as well as end of day market report.

Mubasher : It offers a real-time Stock market information dissemination service. It allows you to watch real-time price movements in Cairo and Alex Stock Exchange (CASE) together with many other regional stock exchanges in the region. It provides a complete end to end e-trading solution with the most advanced e-trading engine that empowers you to buy and sell securities online any time any where. The following are some of the features of mubasher pro, an important product of Mubasher.com:

• Trade - Allows you to Trade with absolute ease and convenience.
• Multi Market - Allows you to view trade information of multiple markets.
• Dynamically updating real-time prices (Push based not refresh).
• Market Depth: Best Offers and bids.
• Time and Sales for any stock, each watch list and Full Market.
• Customizable Market Watch: Create and view your favorite stocks on multiple watch lists and Sector based. Conditional watch lists can also be created.
• Integrated Charting application: A sophisticated tool that provides Intra-day and historical charting with extensive features and a number of technical indicators in Meta Stock format.
• Market Map: A valuable tool that allows you to grade your stocks in the watch list on important criteria like P/E ratio, Market Capitalization...etc.
• Data Export for further analysis Excel and MetaStock.

EGID:  is a direct link to disclosure information of Cairo Alexandria Stock Exchange Listed Companies. EGID provides a powerful information interface to provide users with the following information:  

• Company information (address, website, telephone, law, auditor,..)
• Board of Directors
• Management
• Historical Financial Statements
• History of dividends
• Free Float
• News

Egypt Watch :  is a financial database that provides infromation about the Egyptian Capital Market. It also provides users with comprehensive information about listed companies, mutual funds, Global Depositery Receipts (GDRs) of Egyptian companies and Fixed Income Securities.    

Our Trading room represents a strong link between classrooms and real life practices.