Global Trader
One Engine. All Markets.
Global Trader is ACF’s multi-asset financial markets simulation for training, assessment and development across Global Markets, Sales & Trading, investment and risk roles.
It brings multiple markets into one integrated environment, allowing participants to trade, manage risk, interpret changing conditions and experience the interaction between asset classes in real time.
Unlike a series of isolated exercises, Global Trader operates as a connected market environment. Decisions in one area can affect positions, risk and outcomes elsewhere.
Experience Markets as They Interact
Financial markets do not operate in isolation. Neither does Global Trader. The simulation can incorporate:
- Equities
- Fixed Income
- Currencies
- Cash
- Commodities
- Credit Markets
- Futures Markets
- Swaps
- Options
Participants can build positions, respond to news and market movements, manage exposures and see the financial consequences of their decisions as conditions change.
The environment can be configured around the products, markets and level of complexity appropriate to the audience.
From Fundamentals to Advanced Markets
Global Trader can be used at very different levels.
For interns, new hires and recruitment audiences, the simulation can be simplified to focus on core market concepts, decision-making and risk.
For more experienced participants, scenarios can become substantially more complex, incorporating multiple instruments, derivatives, portfolio effects, hedging, market shocks and changing conditions.
The same engine can therefore support development from introductory market awareness through to advanced trading and risk exercises.
Trading, Risk and Portfolio Management
Global Trader is not limited to speculative trading. Participants can use the simulation to manage and hedge portfolios, analyse exposures and understand how decisions affect overall risk and performance.
Depending on the scenario, the simulation can incorporate:
- Position management
- Hedging
- Portfolio risk
- P&L
- Volatility
- Market shocks
- Cross-asset relationships
- Client or investment objectives
This makes Global Trader relevant not only to traders, but also to salespeople, portfolio managers, risk professionals and others who need to understand how markets and positions interact.
Advanced Technology and Analytics
Global Trader can incorporate sophisticated analytical and technological features alongside the market simulation. These can include:
- Integrated analytics
- Risk monitoring
- Algorithmic trading
- Coded strategies
- AI-supported analysis
The level of technological complexity can be adjusted to the program and the participants.
The objective is not to add technology for its own sake, but to reflect the way modern financial professionals increasingly analyse markets, manage information and make decisions.
Every Decision Leaves Evidence
Global Trader can provide detailed evidence of participant behaviour and performance. Assessment can include:
- Profit / loss
- Risk exposure over multiple dimensions
- Interpretation of news
- Response to market events
- Adaptation to changing circumstances
- Decision speed
- Position management
- Client facilitation
- Capital requirements
- RAROC
The final result is only part of the picture. The simulation can show how participants interpreted information, adjusted positions, managed risk and responded as conditions changed.
That makes Global Trader useful not only for development, but also for simulation-based assessment.
Highly Configurable
Global Trader is designed as a flexible simulation engine rather than a fixed exercise.
Markets, instruments, scenarios, news, volatility, complexity and participant objectives can all be configured to support different programs and learning outcomes.This allows ACF to create experiences for:
- Recruitment
- Insights Events
- Intern Programs
- New Hire Onboarding
- Early Careers
- Professional Development
- Client Events
- Assessment
The underlying engine remains sophisticated while the participant experience is adapted to the audience.
Integrated with Learning
Global Trader is most powerful when it forms part of a wider learning program rather than being used as a standalone game.
It can be combined with instructor-led training, digital learning, knowledge checks, practical exercises, reflection and debrief.
Within Acumen, Global Trader can also contribute simulation evidence to the broader learning and capability journey.
More Than a Trading Game
Global Trader is designed to reproduce the decisions, trade-offs and consequences of financial markets in a controlled learning environment.
Participants learn by making decisions, seeing what happens and understanding why.
