// About
Who We Are
UCL Trading Society is the university's student-led community for understanding how markets work in practice.
The society runs four research desks, one each for equities, commodities, fixed income and FX. Around those we put on workshops, competitions, and talks with people who work in the industry. Some of it is technical. Some of it is just getting in a room and arguing about where oil is going.
It doesn't matter what you study or how much you already know. We bring together students opening a chart for the first time and students already sitting trading assessments. Both are welcome, and both have something useful to contribute.
Research Divisions
Committee Members
Sponsors
Industry Partners
// Committee 2026/27
The Committee
Who's running things this year. Click through to any of them on LinkedIn.
Kaihao Luis Wu
President
Executive
Zijia Zhao
Vice President
Executive
Anies Desai
Vice President
Executive
Rahul Shafia
Treasurer
Executive
Wenhao Wang
Head of Equities
Equities
James Bridel
Head of Commodities
Commodities
Micah Zheng
Welfare Officer
Welfare
James Bridel, our Head of Commodities, sat down with Samuel Basi, who spent 11 years at Trafigura, to talk about how physical commodity trading actually works.
Read the interview// Support
Sponsors & Partners
Backed by leading organisations across quantitative trading, energy markets, financial infrastructure and market technology.
Sponsors
Firms funding the society directly.
Hudson River Trading
A multi-asset class quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider, combining mathematics, technology and research across global markets.
Jane Street
A global quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider, active in equities, ETFs, bonds, options and commodities across markets worldwide.
Castleton Commodities International
A global energy commodities merchant, trading physical and financial natural gas, power and oil, and investing in the infrastructure behind it.
Partners
Firms giving us tools, access and training rather than funding.
Maven Securities
A proprietary trading firm using its own capital, quantitative analysis and technology across global financial markets.
Interactive Brokers
A global brokerage platform offering market access, trading tools and investment products across asset classes.
TradingView
Charting, screeners and economic calendars. Our first 150 members get a TradingView subscription.
Intercontinental Exchange
Runs exchanges and clearing houses around the world, the New York Stock Exchange among them.
TraderMath
Mental maths drills, market-making games and practice assessments for people going after trading and quant roles.
Work with us
If your firm wants to reach students at UCL who are serious about markets, we'd like to hear from you. We're open to sponsorship, events and workshops.