Quantitative Trader – Graduate: 2027
A graduate programme that trains new hires as quantitative traders. After classroom learning you sit on a desk and begin managing risk within months.
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.
- Attend classes on ETF and options trading, game theory and coding
- Practise decisions in trading simulations and games
- Sit on a trading desk and learn its strategies
- Begin managing risk on the desk within the first months
What they ask for
Required
- Puzzle-solving ability
- Clear communication
- Drive to improve
- Availability to start in June 2027
- Education
- Not specified; no finance background needed
- Experience
- Recent or soon-to-be graduates
- Markets
- options, equities
How to prepare
- Practise probability, expected value and mental-maths drills
- Play poker or similar games and review decisions
- Learn options basics: payoffs, put-call parity and Greeks
- Study market making and how spreads form
What to study
- Mathematics Primer
- Finance Primer
- Derivatives Pricing and Computational Finance
- Probability, Statistics and Financial Data
The Volatility Quant roadmap sets out the stages for this kind of role, with free resources for each.
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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Susquehanna International Group (SIG) and doesn’t handle applications.