image001.jpg Welcome to ftsnet.com

This page lets you run applications directly from our web server.  However, your system must be configured correctly.

System requirements

o   New in fall 2009: a browser based version of the FTS Real Time Client is now available; it only requires Microsoft Silverlight 3 and runs on these systems

o   Windows XP or Vista, The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.51 , Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft Office 2007

o   The FTS Libraries; these can be installed in two ways.  The best way is via the FTS System Manager.  The second way is manually

 

The FTS Real Time Client: you manage a portfolio against real time prices from real world markets (e.g. the DOW Case). 

You need a trading name and a password, assigned by your instructor/moderator.

·         Click to run RT Client  (This version requires Excel 2007 and Internet Explorer 7)

·         Click to run the Silverlight version of the RT Client (beta); you will be asked to install the Silverlight plug in if you don’t have it.

 

 

The FTS Trader lets you trade an FTS Trading case (e.g. B01, RE1) where participants trade with each other. 

You must know the IP address of the instructors computer.  For your trading name, enter your university email address, unless instructed differently.

·         Click to run the latest FTS Trader (Version 8 Released Summer, 2009)  This is compatible with older versions of Excel and Internet Explorer

·         Click to run FTS Trader (Version 7 Released Jan 1, 2008)

 

The FTS Modules require a student code for authentication, which you can request here (after clicking on the link, click “Run”). 

·         Equity Modules

§  Valuation Tutor

§  Portfolio Returns and Efficient Portfolios

§  Factor Models

·         Fixed Income Modules

§  Treasury Calculator

§  Lessons: Principal Components Analysis and Duration and Immunization

§  Yield Curve Behavior and Interest Rate Risk

§  Black Derman Toy (BDT) Model

·         Option and Derivative Modules

§  Option Payoffs

§  Binomial Tree

§  Limit of the Binomial

§  Option Calculator

§  Exotic Options

§  Futures Calculator

 

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