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Quantitative Trader Intern 2027

A nine-week summer internship on a proprietary trading firm's trading team, with mentoring from full-time traders. It mixes classroom teaching, mock trading and research projects.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Take part in mock trading sessions and strategy games
Support a research or development project for the trading team
Learn core trading concepts from mentors and talks
Present findings from your project to the team

What they ask for

Required

Quantitatively focused
Quick learner
Intellectual curiosity
Detail-oriented
Comfortable in a fast, collaborative setting

Education: Students graduating in winter 2027 or spring/summer 2028; subject not stated.
Experience: Students; no experience required

How to prepare

Practise probability, expected value and market-making style games
Train mental arithmetic and decision-making under uncertainty
Learn basic order-book and market-making concepts
Play and reflect on strategy games with betting or bluffing

What to study

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Five Rings and doesn’t handle applications.