As Dallas continues its rise as a leading U.S. financial center, Dallas College is launching The Texas Ticker, a hands-on trading and market analytics initiative built around the Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge and the college’s Bloomberg Finance and Investment Labs.
The Texas Ticker is the flagship program within the Dallas College Y’all Street Market Experience, which connects students, industry partners, and the community to real-world market activity through applied learning, professional tools, workshops, and seminars—all focused on the financial sector.
“The Texas Ticker gives students hands-on experience with the same market tools used by financial professionals,” Dallas College Chancellor Justin Lonon said in a statement. “As ‘Y’all Street’ takes shape and the Texas Stock Exchange grows, our students won’t just learn how markets work—they’ll actively participate in them.”
The initiative coincides with North Texas’ rapid growth in its financial sector, driven in part by the establishment of the Texas Stock Exchange, NYSE Texas, and Nasdaq Texas—a movement increasingly referred to as “Y’all Street.”
The Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge is one of the world’s largest student investment competitions, with teams participating in a live market simulation with a $1 million portfolio, Dallas College said. Students react to real market conditions, track performance, and make investment decisions in real time.
“When students gain hands-on experience with real-time market data, it changes how they see both their education and their career possibilities,” said Elizabeth Casserino, Bloomberg AMER head of university relations. “By embedding Bloomberg technology into the student experience, Dallas College is helping develop a new generation of talent equipped to analyze markets, understand global capital flows, and contribute to Texas’s evolving financial ecosystem.”
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