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Quantitative Trader Intern

A summer trading internship in Amsterdam with classroom teaching, a project, weekly trading challenges and desk shadowing. It is aimed at penultimate-year students who will graduate in 2028.

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 classroom training on proprietary trading
Generate and refine trading strategies
Build tools or visibility for a specific use case
Compete in simulated trading and shadow desks

What they ask for

Required

Penultimate year in maths, physics, econometrics or a related field
Graduating in 2028
Outstanding analytical skills
Interest in financial markets
Available from 28 June 2027

Preferred

Programming in Python, MATLAB or R

Education: Penultimate-year student in maths, physics, econometrics or a related quantitative field
Experience: Students; no market experience required
Languages and tools: Python
MATLAB
R

How to prepare

Practise probability, expected value and betting-game questions
Play market-making games and review your decisions
Learn basic options and how a market maker earns the spread
Do a small Python data analysis

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