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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 123 exchange-traded index mutual funds.
Commodity and crypto-asset Funds
Seven 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 three funds on crypto-assets.

Commodity and crypto-asset Funds

Seven 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 three funds on crypto-assets.

Three of these funds trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the other four on the New York Stock Exchange.