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Securities transactions
This section describes all aspects of securities transactions in a Bourstad simulation, both transactions carried out following transaction orders given by participants and transactions resulting from dividends or splits.
Type of portfolios and categories of securities
The participants in the Bourstad Challenge are divided into two types of portfolios. The selection of securities proposed for the Bourstad Challenge includes 17 categories of securities or financial assets.
Securities of the Bourstad Portfolio
Which securities may trade the manager of a Bourstad portfolio.
Exchange-traded index funds of the Bourstad Portfolio
Managers of a Bourstad Portfolio may trade in the participating units of 97 exchange-traded index mutual funds.
Commodity Funds
Five funds make up this category. Participants in the simulation can trade two funds made up of gold ingots held in a secure depository, one fund on copper, one fund on grain and one fund on bitcoin.

Commodity Funds

Five funds make up this category. Participants in the simulation can trade two funds made up of gold ingots held in a secure depository, one fund on copper, one fund on grain and one fund on bitcoin.

Two of these funds trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the other three on the New York Stock Exchange..