In GCom 7720, you will learn to design and implement financial strategies to manage an online portfolio of stocks and options. You will build a robotrader that hedges risk in real time, and use it to compete in the yearly McIntire Hedge Tournament. Along the way, you will see how IT enables modern finance, and acquire hands-on skills: querying financial data using SQL and developing sophisticated financial functions in Excel, with generative AI as a coding partner that helps you write and debug code, explore unfamiliar functions, and turn trading ideas into working tools faster. You will also learn where AI falls short, and how to verify its output when real money and real risk are on the line. By the end of the course, you will be comfortable moving from strategy to implementation, a differentiator in today’s competitive job markets.