Rotman International Trading Competition (RITC) Results

University of Calgary teams have earned top-3 results seven times in the last 11 years, top-5 results 10 times in those years.

Much of the content and photographs on this page are courtesy of Dr. Gordon Sick.

RITC 2024 Results - Third Place

February 21 -  23, 2024

After three years of online events, the 2024 RITC was held in-person at the Rotman School of Management. The University of Calgary entered a six person team in this event of 42 schools from 12 countries.  This year the teams traded six cases, the Volatility Trading case (options), the Liquidity Risk case (equities), the Electricity Trading case, Commodities Trading, and two Algorithmic cases (an algorithm determines and makes the trades).  This is the seventh year of the past 11 where the University of Calgary has finished in the top three.

Gold Team Members - Third Place

  • Moh'd Elshayib (Haskayne)
  • Gray Nguyen (Haskayne & Economics)
  • Jonah Pandarinath (Haskayne & Math)
  • Logan Ruzycki (Haskayne & Political Science)
  • Mayankjot Singh (Computer Science & Math & Economics)
  • Sam Vojtassak (Haskayne & Economics)

 

The team was coached by George Hart with assistance from Dr. Gordon Sick and Justin Gotta (RITC - 2023).

 

2024 RITC - Third Place

2024 Gold Team

Logan Ruzycki, Moh'd Elshayib, Sam Vojtassak, Maykankjot Singh, Jonah Pandarinath, Gray Nguyen, George Hart

RITC 2023 Results - Third Place

February 24, 2023, Online

The University of Calgary entered a four person team in this online event held in that format for the third year in a row due to pandemic.  The teams traded four cases, the Volatility Trading case (options), the Liquidity Risk case (equities), the Electricity Trading case (commodities), and an algorithmic case (an algorithm determines and makes the trades).  Forty three schools from Asia, North America and Europe competed in the 2023 event.  This year's result was an improvement over our 2022 result of fifth and seventh.  We selected two teams but only one was allowed to compete.

Click here to see the event scorecard.

Gold Team Members - Third Place

  • Justin Gotta (Economics)
  • Tara Jindal (Haskayne)
  • Kian Sadeghi (Haskayne & Math)
  • Drew Van Den Bosch (Haskayne)

 

Red Team Members

  • Noah Day (Haskayne)
  • Stefan Nikolic (Haskayne)
  • Asad Ur Rehman (Engineering)
  • Sam Vojtassak (Haskayne)

 

The teams were coached by George Hart with assistance from Willie Li (RITC 2020 - 2022) and Gordon Sick.  The event organizers hope to return to an in-person event in 2024..

2023 RITC - Third Place

2023 Gold Team

Justin Gotta, Tara Jindal, George Hart (coach), Drew Van Den Bosch, Kian Sadeghi

Gordon Sick

RITC 2022 Results - Fifth and Seventh Place

February 25, 2022, Online

The University of Calgary entered two four person teams in this online event held in that format for the second year in a row due to pandemic.  The teams traded four cases, the Volatility Trading case (options), the Liquidity Risk case (equities), the Electricity Trading case (commodities), and an algorithmic case (an algorithm determines and makes the trades).  Forty two schools from Asia, North America and Europe entered 53 teams (10 schools entered multiple teams).  Given that one half of our participants were new to our program, a fifth and seventh place finish is an excellent result.

 

Team B Members - Fifth Place

  • Dhruv Jindal (Haskayne)
  • Eric Xiao (Haskayne & Math)
  • Asad Ur Rehman (Engineering)
  • Tara Jindal (Haskayne)

 

Team A Members - Seventh Place

 

  • Qi Feng (Willie) Li (Haskayne & Engineering)
  • Kian Sadeghi (Haskayne & Math)
  • Drew Van Den Bosch (Haskayne)
  • Taivanbat Khadbaatar (Haskayne)

 

The teams were coached by George Hart and Joel Adams.  Joel is a veteran of earlier RITC teams.  We hope to return to an in-person event in 2023.

 

2022 RITC - Fifth Place

2022 RITC Fifth Place

Eric Xiao, Dhruv Jindal, Tara Jindal, Asad Ur Rehman, George Hart (coach)

RITC 2022 - Seventh Place

2022 RITC Red Team

Taivanbat Khadbaatar, Qi Feng (Willie) Li, Drew Van Den Bosch, Kian Sadeghi, George Hart (coach)


RITC-CE Results - Sixth and Tenth Place

February 19, 2021, Online

The University of Calgary entered two four person teams in this online event held to bridge the gap for the pandemic cancelled in person event.  The teams traded three cases, the BP Commodities case, the ETF equities case and an algorithmic case.  Given this was the first attempt to hold the event on line, a few technical issues hindered trading for all competitors.  All of our traders were new to this level of competition so a sixth and tenth place was an excellent result. 

 

Team 2 Members - Sixth Place

  • Eric Dalton
  • Qi Feng (Willie) Li
  • Donald Murataj
  • Kian Sadeghi

 

Team 1 Members - Tenth Place

 

  • Dhruv Jindal
  • Amritpal Minhas
  • Shaan Minhas
  • Eric Xiao

 

The teams were coached by George Hart and Joel Adams.  Joel is a vetern of earlier RITC teams.  Additionally many former team members connected to our online practices to offer advice and support.

 

2021 RITC-CE Team 2

2021 RITC-CE Team 2

2021 RITC-CE Team 1

2021 RITC-CE Team 1

For an online event - Zoom team photos!


2020 RITC Results - Second Place

February 21-22, University of Toronto

The University of Calgary team earned a top-5 placement in 4 of the 6 trading cases, narrowly missing first place. It took first place in the BP Commodities Trading Case, which is an important source of pride and respect for BP Canada, which provides support for our program.

Gold Team Members

  • Mavra Hussain
  • Jared Martell
  • Derick Or
  • Umair Raja
  • Caden Surbey
  • Brian Timmerman

The team was coached by George Hart, assisted by Joel Adams, a veteran of earlier Haskayne Teams at RITC.

Red Team Members

  • Amy Chen
  • Dhruv Jindal
  • Qi (Willie) LI
  • Aman Minhas
  • Amrital Minhas
  • Kian Sadeghi

The Red Team practiced with and pushed the Gold team prior to the competition.

 

2020 RITC Team

Back Row - George Hart (coach), Umair Raja, Jared Martell, Derick Or Front Row - Caden Surbey, Mavra Hussain, Brian Timmerman


2019 RITC Results - Second Place

February 22-23, University of Toronto

The 2019 Haskayne team had 5 rookies and one veteran, Caden Surbey. Caden was the only rookie on the 2018 team, which placed first.  The team finished first in the Flow Traders ETF case and tied for fourth in the BP Commodities case.

Gold Team

  • Mavra Hussain
  • Jared Martell
  • Derick Or
  • Umair Raja
  • Caden Surbey
  • Brian Timmerman

The team was coached by George Hart, assisted by Gordon Sick and Parminder Dhami a veteran of earlier Haskayne Teams at RITC.

 

Red Team

  • Alex Caya
  • Amy Chen
  • Dhruv Jindal
  • Micheal Ly
  • Amrit MInhas
  • Joseph Prasad
2019 RITC Second Place
2019 Gold Team

Front Row (L-R): Caden Surbey, Mavra Hussain, Brian Timmerman Back Row: (L-R) George Hart, Jared Martell, Derick Or, Umair Raja, Gordon Sick


2018 RITC Results - First Place

February 23-24, University of Toronto

The University of Calgary earned a top-5 placement in all 6 of the trading cases (the first time it has happened at RITC), along the way to securing first place overall.

There were 19 teams of graduate students and 18 teams from specialist programs, such as “Master of Financial Engineering” or “Master of Computational” finance. Many well-known schools fielded graduate specialist teams: Cambridge, Carnegie Mellon, U Chicago, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Cornell, Duke, HEC Montreal, New York University, Washington University (St Louis) and Western University.

Gold Team

  • Joel Adams, Captain, (Schulich School of Engineering)
  • Parminder Dhami (Haskayne)
  • Brandon Hrycenko (Haskayne)
  • Ian McKenzie (Haskayne and Math)
  • Caden Surbey (Haskayne)
  • Tom Widdowson (Haskayne)

The team was coached by Gordon Sick and George Hart.

Red Team

  • Lorenzo Bondad
  • Carter Illing
  • Micheal Ly
  • Ivan (Vanya) Steklov
  • Brian Timmerman
  • Shane Wilson-Murray

 

2018 RITC First Place

(L-R): George Hart, Caden Surbey, Joel Adams, Brandon Hrycenko, Parminder Dhami, Tom Widdowson, Ian McKenzie, Gordon Sick and Tom McCurdy (Rotman)

2018 RITC First Place

2018 Gold Team at Trading Post


RITC 2017 - Second Place

February 24-25

The University of Calgary finished ahead of all the other 19 Canadian teams, as well as 31 international teams to take 2rd place in the competition. The majority of teams were from graduate programs. Indeed, 19 teams were from programs with titles such as "Master of Quantitatiive Finance" or "Master of Finance". The winning team was from the Baruch Master of Financial Engineering program in New York.

Of the six different trading cases in the competition, Team Calgary won the the BP Commodities case, and took second in the Options Volatility case and the Credit Risk case.

Gold Team

  • Joel Adams (Schulich Engineering)
  • Brandon Hrycenko (Haskayne)
  • Chase MacDougall (Haskayne)
  • Ian McKenzie (Haskayne and Math)
  • Felicia Specht (Haskayne)
  • Tom Widdowson (Haskayne)

The team was coached by Gordon Sick and George Hart.

Red Team

  • Maxim Bouianova (Haskayne BComm)
  • Dhaval Dhere (Haskayne BComm and Mathematics)
  • Ivan Kosivchenko (Haskayne BComm)
  • Micheal Ly (Haskayne Executive MBA)
  • Mark Schwab (Haskayne BComm)
  • Shane Wilson-Murray (Haskayne BComm)
2017 RITC Second Place

(L-R): Ian McKenzie, Felicia Specht, Chase MacDougall, George Hart, Gordon Sick, Brandon Hrycenko, Joel Adams and Tom Widdowson


RITC 2016 - Third Place

February 18-20

The Gold Team beat all the other 18 Canadian teams, as well as 31 international teams to take 3rd place in the competition.  It beat teams from specialist graduate and undergraduate financial engineering programs at top schools like Berkeley, Chicago, New York University, Columbia, Carnegie Mellon, and Washington University in St Louis.

Gold Team

  • Joel Adams (Schulich Engineering BSc)
  • Carter Ensign (Haskayne)
  • Georg Jalkotzy (Haskayne and Economics)
  • Branden Lewis (Haskayne)
  • Chase MacDougall (Haskayne)
  • Ranjot Sahdhu (Haskayne MBA)

The teams were coached by Gordon Sick and George Hart.

Red Team

  • Catalina Cuzzani (Economics)
  • Caleb Kostynuik (Haskayne)
  • Felica Specht (Haskayne)
  • Jonathan Leong (Haskayne)
  • Jeremy Xu (Haskayne MBA)
  • Tom Widdowson (Haskayne)

 

2016 RITC Third Place

Team Gold receives at the RITC Award Ceremony atop the CN Tower.

2016 RITC Third Place

(L-R): George Hart (Assistant coach), Joel Adams, Branden Lewis, Ranjot Sandhu, Chase MacDougall, Georg Jalkotzy, Carter Ensign, Gordon Sick (Coach)


2015 RITC - Gold Team places 4th, Red Team finishes 10th.

February 19-21

The Gold Team won two (the BP Commodities case and the S&P Equity Valuation case) of the six cases to finish fourth overall.  They finished behind Luiss Guido Cardi, University of California Berkley and the University of Windsor.  The all rookie Red Team finished third in the Sales and Trader case and fifth in the Algorithmic case to finish 10th overall.  Some of the prestigous schools represented were: MIT, Cornell, Columbia, New York University, Princeton, Duke, Chicago, Berkeley, LSE, Indian Institute of Management and City University of Hong Kong. Canadian schools included Toronto, McGill, HEC Montréal, Laval, Queen's, McMaster, Western, Waterloo, and the University of Alberta.

 

Gold Team

Carter Ensign (Haskayne)

Georg Jalkotzy (Haskayne and Economics)

Branden Lewis (Haskayne)

Ranjot Sandhu (Haskayne MBA)

Taylor Ronsky (Haskayne)

Constantine Zakrasov (Haskayne and Economics)

 

The teams were coached by Gordon Sick and George Hart

 

Red Team

Catalina Cuzzani (Economics)

Jordan Grant (Haskayne)

Richard (Yunlong) Hou (Haskayne)

Brett Lomore (Haskayne and Economics)

Felicia Specht (Haskayne)

Scott Woldum (Engineering and Economics)

 

 

 

2015 RITC Fourth Place

Haskayne Team Gold Receives the 4th place award at Toronto's CN Tower.

2015 RITC Tenth Place

Haskayne Team Red Receives the 10th place award

2015 RITC Gold and Red Teams

Standing (L-R): Gordon Sick (Coach), Carter Ensign, Constantine Zakrasov, Branden Lewis, Ranjot Sandhu, Scott Woldum, Jordan Grant, Georg Jalkotzy, Taylor Ronsky, George Hart (Assistant Coach) Seated (L-R): Felicia Specht, Brett Lomore, Catalina Cuzzani, Richard (Yunlong) Hou


2014 RITC 5th Place

Our RITC 2014 team placed 5th out of 52 (L-R): Professor Gordon Sick, Taylor Ronsky, Joel Carston, Furla Lau, Brian Ho, Georg Jalkotzy, Constantine Zakrasov.

RITC 2013 10th Place

Our RITC 2013 team placed 10th out of 48 (L-R): Bao Nguyen, Haley Thomson, Nicolle Rabiej, Murray MacKenzie, Allison Taylor, Professor Gordon Sick, Jason Chen.