Foreign currency trading as an inter-disciplinary teaching pathway for STEM initiatives

Successful members of tomorrow's workforce must not only be demand learners, but must also be capable of continually reinventing themselves, while addressing, pondering and successfully resolving complex inter-disciplinary problems. Critical to developing these sustainable career capabilities and fluid thinking skills is the introduction at earlier and earlier ages, of learning environments that challenge students to process real-time information, from multiple sources and in a variety of display formats, while coaches help them to seamlessly think across multiple disciplines. Using commodity trading within the foreign currency market as a rich platform to introduce students to such challenges, while helping them integrate knowledge from the disciplines of geography, sociology, economics, signal processing, modeling, finance, statistics, politics and world trade is the core of this initiative.