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The 2026/27 programme: competitions, technical workshops, career conversations and community events.
UCL Welcome Fair
Meet the committee, hear what we have planned for the year and find out how to join the society, our events and our research divisions. Drop in at any point during the day and say hello.
WITH MAVEN SECURITIES
Meet Maven's trading team, explore its London office and see how maths, probability and data shape decisions in fast-moving markets.You'll meet traders, take part in market-making games and learn about Maven's internship and quantitative research programmes.
Who can apply
Penultimate-year students studying a STEM degree.
A nine-week introduction to options market making, combining structured training with simulated trading. No prior markets knowledge is required.
Final-year Bachelor's, Master's or PhD students in applied mathematics, statistics, engineering or physics, with experience in Python, C++ or C#.
Seven weeks of structured training followed by project rotations using real trading data, automated strategies and quantitative pricing models.
With UCL Statistics Society
Step beyond the textbook in an immersive, role-based finance simulation built around practical decisions and real-world pressure.AmplifyME's simulations are designed to mirror the decisions, pace and pressure of real finance roles. We'll publish the exact format, date and booking details once confirmed.
What to expect
WITH TRADERMATH AND ADM (UCL MATHS SOCIETY)
Our flagship quantitative competition, run with TraderMath and ADM, UCL's maths society. Teams go head to head on mental maths, probability and market-making games, which is roughly what trading firms put candidates through at interview. Open to every UCL student, and you don't need any markets experience to enter.
DATE ANNOUNCED SOON
Get notifiedPeople from trading desks, funds and market-making firms talking about how the job really works.
Practical sessions in TradingView, covering charting, screeners and the economic calendar.
Simulated markets where members trade against each other and find out whose ideas hold up.
Drinks, meetups and the rest of it. Half the value of a society is the people in it.
We announce dates and speakers on our socials and the Students' Union mailing list before anywhere else.