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Trader Intern

A summer trading internship in IMC's Amsterdam office with a week of classroom teaching, a project and weekly simulated trading challenges. It is designed as an entry route into proprietary trading.

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.

Generate and refine trading strategy ideas on a real project
Build tooling or visibility for a specific trading use case
Compete in simulated trading sessions
Rotate through trading desks to see different products

What they ask for

Required

Penultimate-year maths, physics, econometrics or similar
Outstanding analytical skills
Interest in markets
Able to start 28 June 2027
Visa to work in the Netherlands

Preferred

A programming language such as Python, Matlab or R

Education: Penultimate-year student in maths, physics, econometrics or a related quantitative field, graduating 2028
Experience: Students; no finance knowledge required
Languages and tools: Python
Matlab
R

How to prepare

Practise probability, expected value and market-making style games
Write a simple simulated trading strategy and test it honestly
Learn how options and order books work at a basic level
Practise fast mental arithmetic

What to study

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