Saxo Bank Dubai to announce winner of investment and trading competition at Trading Options Lecture

Saxo Bank, the specialist in online trading and investment, will announce the winner of an investment and trading competition for business students tonight at the Saxo Bank (Dubai) Trading Options Lecture. 

The competition and the Trading Options Lecture is organized in partnership with Manchester Business School (MBS) Middle East Centre and is held at 6:30 pm at the Arjaan Hotel Conference Center, Media City, Dubai. 

The competition began on 1 August and ran until the 1 September. Competitors were provided with a demo account of Saxo Bank’s award-wining platform, SaxoTrader, and $100,000 in virtual money to invest in the capital market in any of the Saxo Bank products ranging from Contract Futures, stocks, FX Spot, FX Forwards, FX Options, CFD’s, CFD’s on Indices and CFD’s on Futures. 

Gustave Rieunier, Global Head of FX Options & Forward Trading in Saxo Bank, will address the audience and discuss how to trade in the Capital Market and in particular Options. The students attending the lecture will also have a chance to hear about career opportunities in Trading and Investment Banking. 

The winner of the MBS & Saxo Bank Investment and Trading competition will be announced during the lecture and will receive an IPad2 from the CEO Saxo Bank (Dubai), Jakob Beck Thomsen. 

Jakob Beck Thomsen commented on the event and competition: “We like talent and this event was a great opportunity for talented business students that are interested to learn more about trading and investment, not just in this turbulent market we have been experiencing, but in more settled markets too. The competition gave a lot of talented students the opportunity to gain experience in trading and investing in the capital markets and I am looking forward to meeting them all at the conference.”