Priyansh Bothra ’25 Wins 15th Annual Babson Trading Competition

Priyansh Bothra ’25 recently won the 15th annual Babson Trading Competition, which attracted more than 60 undergraduate and graduate students from Babson College, Olin College, and Wellesley College to the finance lab at the Stephen D. Cutler Center for Investments and Finance.

The Babson Trading Competition—hosted by Professor Ryan Davies—pits students against each other using the Rotman Interactive Trader software, which simulates an order-driven market.

Bothra led the top five finishers, which included Napat (Oak) Kornsri ’24, MSF’25 in second place, Owen Fu ’26 in third, Felipe Pasquatti ’26 in fourth, and Monu Chouhan MSF’26 in fifth. In addition to cash prizes, the top five will be invited to the Fidelity Investments trading floor in Boston at the start of the spring semester for a tour and a chance to meet and network with additional Fidelity traders.

The Babson Trading Competition, sponsored by Fidelity Investments, centers on the Liability Trading cases (LT3, LT4). In these cases, participants take on the role of principal traders. Institutional orders are randomly routed to a principal trading desk, and traders must then decide whether to accept the tender. If they accept, the trader needs to develop an optimal strategy to unwind the position over time, considering market conditions such as liquidity, price volatility, and price impact.

Before the start of the competition, co-head trader Ken Martin ’95 was joined by his teammates from the trading floor at Fidelity Investments for a discussion about what it is like to work on the trading floor and how their career paths led them to Fidelity. Martin was joined by sector trader Mettler Growney, Quantitative Trading Analyst Mahitha Valluru, and Sector Trader Zach Haggerty.

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