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Quantitative Trading Internship (Taiwan) – 2027

An eight-week internship introducing students to market making through lectures, simulated options trading and a small backtesting project. It sits in a market maker's trading education programme and can lead to a graduate offer.

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.

Learn options pricing and trading fundamentals through coursework
Trade options in a simulation using live market data
Build and backtest an algorithmic strategy on historical data
Rotate through desks to see how real trading teams work

What they ask for

Required

Penultimate or pre-penultimate year student
Strong quantitative and logical reasoning
Interest in strategic games and competition
Eligibility to work in Taiwan long term

Preferred

Python programming or scripting
Interest in trading or financial markets

Education: Penultimate or pre-penultimate university student graduating 2027 or later.
Experience: Current students; no prior experience needed
Languages and tools: Python
Markets: options

How to prepare

Practise probability, expected value and mental arithmetic
Learn the basics of options and put-call parity
Write a small Python backtest of a simple strategy
Play market-making and strategy games to build intuition

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 Optiver and doesn’t handle applications.