Registration has begun for the 23rd Annual CME Group live-trading competition for college students.
Registration for the 23rd Annual CME Group University Trading Challenge, held from Oct. 4 to Oct. 30, is open for “interested university students around the world,” according to the CME Group, a derivatives marketplace and financial technology provider.
Officials say the deadline for registration for this year’s competition is 5:00 p.m. CT on September 29, 2026.
“The CME Group University Trading Challenge is a hands-on educational experience for undergraduate and graduate students. Teams, led by students or faculty advisors, take on a range of marketplace risks as they work to protect their mock investment portfolios,” according to the announcement. “Using a simulated, professional-grade trading platform from CQG, teams step into the day-to-day realities of running an investment portfolio – facing the same pressures and possibilities real traders encounter.”
The participating students can draw on available resources “from market data and news to live updates via the Dow Jones newsfeed and The Hightower Report. It all comes together as a real-time test of their ability to read and respond to shifting market dynamics,” officials add.
“For more than two decades, this one-of-a-kind competition has drawn more than 40,000 participants. We are so pleased to offer students real-world practice in managing risk and seizing opportunities through futures trading,” says Anita Liskey, global head of brand marketing and communications at CME Group, in a prepared statement.
Last year, participation reached a record 615 teams, including approximately 1,800 students from 174 universities across 25 countries. The 2025 winning team came from Universidad de Monterrey in Mexico.
For more information on the CME Group University Trading Challenge, visit https://shorturl.at/F8KXC
The CME Group helps clients to trade futures, options, cash, and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data. The company offers futures and options trading through the CME Globex platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec, and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. It also operates a central counterparty clearing provider, CME Clearing.
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