Simulation: Yield Curve

This highly interactive simulation gives participants the opportunity to apply what they have learnt about interest rates and yield curves.

Participants will have the opportunity to be a trader, salesperson, hedge fund manager and researcher. They will need to react to incoming market data and initiate trades in order to maximise their returns and manage any risks.

Suitability

This course is for individuals with a working knowledge of the bond market, yield curve trading and economics.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course delegates should understand:

  • The practicalities of real time yield curve trading based on market data and flow
  • The role of the investment bank and hedge fund investors when trading the yield curve
  • Risk management of trading the yield curve

Course Content

Yield curve trading simulation

  • Shown economic data each month, for six consecutive months with trading in-between
  • Bank and hedge fund can both generate trade ideas
  • Bank and hedge fund agree trades face to face
  • Aim to make the most P&L or asset growth

Participant Group 1: Investment bank

  • Research (analysing data and stories to produce investment ideas)
  • Sales (communicating ideas with clients, and collecting indications of interest)
  • Trading (managing the risks in the book, and executing trades against clients)

Participant Group 2: Hedge fund

  • Fund manager (maintaining strategy across the whole book)
  • Research analyst (analysing data and macro points)
  • Dealing desk (getting best execution from investment banks)

Trade positions

  • Outright views
  • Steepeners and flatteners

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