• DocumentCode
    3175994
  • Title

    Competition Dynamics in a Virtual Fund Management System: The Tour de Finance

  • Author

    Dougal, Casey ; Merriman, David ; Humpherys, Jeffery ; Warnick, Sean

  • Author_Institution
    Brigham Young Univ., Provo
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    9-13 July 2007
  • Firstpage
    1817
  • Lastpage
    1822
  • Abstract
    This research explores the development of a virtual fund management system to benchmark investment controllers as algorithmic decision processes on live market data. While similar paper-trading competitions exist, the Tour de Finance system is unique in its use of a particular class of dynamical systems as a dynamic rating mechanism to help ensure that the system is fair and rewards real intelligence over dumb luck. A link is provided for those wishing to participate in the Tour by designing controllers to interact with the system as autonomous agents, each managing its own virtual fund.
  • Keywords
    financial management; investment; marketing data processing; virtual enterprises; Tour de Finance; competition dynamics; investment controllers; market data; virtual fund management system; Cities and towns; Conference management; Control systems; Finance; Financial management; Instruments; Investments; Research and development management; Stock markets; Uncertainty;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    American Control Conference, 2007. ACC '07
  • Conference_Location
    New York, NY
  • ISSN
    0743-1619
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0988-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0743-1619
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ACC.2007.4283117
  • Filename
    4283117