Rotman International Trading Competition (RITC) Results

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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)

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)

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)