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The walkthrough
Everything in twenty minutes
Vincent Brandsma walks through the four rounds, the nine games, what a society does to host and how players take part. Jump to the part you need.
The top ten earn a Super Day
Flow Traders joins the Games as Super Day partner.
Super Day partner
Flow Traders invites the ten highest finishers at the world final on 12 December to a Super Day at their office.
The film
Markets have tested us.
Now, we test the world.
Four centuries in ninety seconds: from a handshake on the Amsterdam quay to one market moving in microseconds. The Games start where the film ends.
Stock markets have been around for centuries. Simple: trust, a handshake, a promise, a deal between two people.
Ships crossed oceans. Journeys and promises became contracts. Trust was traded, recorded in ink, sealed, and made transferable.
In Amsterdam, ownership itself began to trade. Buyers met sellers. Prices emerged. A market was born.
Information moved faster. The trading floor erupted. Voices, hands, signals. Markets were loud, human.
And then the crowds disappeared. Mathematics took over. Algorithms, speed.
Markets became faster, smarter, global. Everything is connected. One market, moving in microseconds.
Markets have tested us. Now, we test the world.
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Who can price the risk?
Who can make the market?
×Autumn 2026
From your campus to the world final
Four rounds on three dates. Every society plays the qualifier together, the campus final on its own campus, and sends one champion to world final day, where a final qualifier fills the ten seats at the final table.
01 · 1 to 25 October
The qualifier
Your society hosts one sitting at a time it picks, when most of its members are available. Everyone plays at once, around an hour, together in a room you book. Every result counts on one global standing and a ranking inside your society.
02 · 1 to 25 November
The campus final
Your top fifteen, in person on your own campus, one session of around three hours on a day your society picks. One full table, an audience in the room, and exactly one society champion. Take photos and send them to us.
03 · Saturday 12 December
The world final
Society champions only. First a final qualifier online for the ten seats. Then the final table, around two hours, with a trader on the desk calling it. One world champion.
The Games in numbers
2026 edition
Societies on the board
Confirmed societies carry their name. The others are seats already taken in cities that will be announced as their boards sign off.
Amsterdam Investment Club plays too. In the Netherlands without a society in the Games? You play with us on Tuesday 13 October.
Find your way inFeatured
On their feeds
Societies telling their members they are in.
Leaderboard
The board is live.
One leaderboard, worldwide.
Every qualifier result lands on one world leaderboard, kept on Market Making Games, the platform the Games are played on. It fills up after every sitting, and when the October window closes on 25 October it becomes the record of the 2026 edition.
Every qualifier, every player, one world table. Updated after each sitting.
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Why enter
Not another university competition. A global one, and your society's name is on it.
01
Put your society on the world stage
Your name appears alongside quantitative and trading societies from around the world, on one board.
02
Represent more than yourself
Every champion competes under their society's name. Local performance feeds a global ranking.
03
Make the board
The field gets smaller until one world champion remains. Champions become part of the permanent record of the Games.
Autumn 2026
Your turn
Play for your society, or bring your society onto the board. The qualifier window closes on 25 October.
For players
Sign up to play
Find your society's sitting and ask to join, or pre-register and we tell you when a sitting near you is booked. In the Netherlands? Play with us on Tuesday 13 October.
For societies
Bring your society
A quant, trading or investment society at a university? Put its name on the board: one sitting in October, a campus final in November, a champion at the world final.
Part one · For associations
From a form to a champion
How your society takes part, in six steps. One organiser on your side, two sittings, and entry is free for your members.
01
Apply
Fill in the form below: your society, one contact, expected players, your logo.
02
Briefing
A thirty minute call. Then your society page, the host guide and three Canva templates with your logo.
03
Book your sittings
One day from 1 to 25 October, except 5 to 9 October, at least three days ahead. A ninety minute block, about an hour of play.
04
Host the qualifier
Everyone plays at once, in a room you book or from home. We run the tournament; your organiser opens the door.
05
Host the campus final
Your top fifteen on your campus, about three hours, one day from 1 to 25 November. Take photos and send them to us.
06
Send your champion
Your champion plays online on Saturday 12 December for one of ten seats. The top ten get a Super Day at Flow Traders.
Cost
Nothing
Workload
One organiser, two sittings
Entry fee
Free for members
Your society
Want to take part with your society?
Quant, trading, finance or econometrics: if your society wants a seat on the board, tell us who you are. One organiser on your side, one sitting in October, one room in November. We run everything else and send you the promotion kit finished.
Who does what
Your side is four things
Everything else is ours: the tournament, the scoring, the mail to your players and the world final.
Amsterdam Investment Club
- Recruits and manages the society network
- Runs all four rounds centrally
- Registration, scheduling, scoring and standings
- All participant mail
- Rulebook, run of show and the society kit
- Hosts the world final
Trading Interview
- Platform and the nine games
- Score export after every round
- Prizes, memberships and resources
- A trader on the world final desk
Flow Traders
- A Super Day for the top ten
Your society
- Promote it to your members. We send the campaign pack with your logo, you post it.
- Bring your members together for the qualifier. One sitting, 1 to 25 October.
- Provide the room for the campus final. One session in November, about three hours.
- Take photos and send them to us, so we can share your society's day.
Your sign-up link and the invite code
Your society gets its own sign-up page, and it works even before you have booked: players who sign up early get the date from us by email as soon as you pick it. Share that link with your members through your own channels, and tell them when your sitting is: we never contact your members ourselves. Everything else happens on your society page, one private link with two tabs: Your society (who signed up, requests, announcements, your room) and Booking (book or move your sittings). Lost the link? Use "Email me my link" on your sign-up page. Every sign-up comes to you as a request, members included, and you approve or decline each one on your society page (you can also choose to take members only). Do you also want players to fill in your own form? Add its link on your society page: players sign up with us first, then see your form, and you approve the ones you accept. Everyone who is in gets your private invite code from us by email three days before the sitting, and anyone approved later gets it straight away. You receive the code too, so you can also pass it on internally. Never post the link or the code on LinkedIn, Instagram or other social media: anyone who has them can join your tournament. Everyone who plays your qualifier must be able to come to your campus final in person.
Part two · For players
Find your way in
Pick the line that fits you. Every player needs a society sitting to play the qualifier.
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My society is on the board
Your society hosts one qualifier sitting and shares its sign-up link through its own channels. Sign up there: your society's organiser approves every sign-up, and once you are in, your invite code comes by email three days before the sitting. No link yet? Ask your society's board, and check the calendar for the date.
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I'm in the Netherlands, without a society in the Games
Play with Amsterdam Investment Club. Tuesday 13 October 2026, 20:00 to 21:30 CEST, about an hour of play, free. Online from your own laptop, or in person at UvA Roeterseiland, room A1.03, with Trading Interview in the room.
Register on the event page. The join details and a reminder come by email before the evening.
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Somewhere else, without a society in the Games
Ask your quant, trading or finance society to apply: one organiser and two sittings is all it takes. Or play with a society near you: in the calendar, click Request to join on its qualifier. Its organiser decides, and you confirm you will travel to its campus final in person, at your own cost, if you make the top 15.
Good to know
- One qualifier per player. If your own society is in the Games, play in its sitting.
- The top fifteen of each sitting go to that society's campus final in November, in person. Only join a sitting whose campus final you can attend.
- Your score counts on one world standing. It goes up on the world leaderboard after every sitting.
- Not sure you are signed up? Check your sign-ups and we email you every sitting you are on.
Autumn 2026
Stay in the loop
No society of your own in the Games yet? Leave your email and city, and we tell you when a sitting near you is booked.
In the Netherlands? You can play with Amsterdam Investment Club on Tuesday 13 October, see above.
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How to join
Six steps to your seat
From account to first game. The same steps for every sitting, wherever you play.
- 01
Make a free account
Create your account on Market Making Games, the platform the Games are played on. Do it before the day.
- 02
Sign up and get your code
Sign up through the link your society shares, or click Request to join on a sitting in the calendar. Not sure you are on one? Check your sign-ups. Your society's organiser approves every sign-up. Once you are in, your private invite code comes by email three days before your sitting, or straight away if you are approved later. Your society can also give it to you directly. Playing with Amsterdam Investment Club? It comes by email before the evening. Keep it to yourself: never post it.
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Open the lobby
Go to marketmakinggames.com/lobby. At the top of the page, enter the invite code and click Join.
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Take your seat early
You can join any time before your tournament starts. Once it has started, nobody can join any more.
- 05
Play the sitting
About an hour of play in a ninety minute block, everyone at once. Use a laptop on power, a stable internet connection and a quiet place, so a dropped connection does not cost you a round.
- 06
See the standings
Your score goes up on the world leaderboard on Market Making Games after your sitting. The top fifteen of each sitting hear about their campus final.
Something not working?
Ask your society's organiser first: they are in touch with us. Playing with Amsterdam Investment Club? Write to contact@amsterdaminvestmentclub.com. Not sure which sitting you are on? Check your sign-ups and we email you the list.
Prepare
Which games, in which round
Every society plays the same games, in the same order, on the same settings. Practise the ones in your next round first.
01 · 1 to 25 October
Campus qualifier
03 · Saturday 12 December
Final qualifier
What they test
Speed, quick mental maths, probability and risk taking, against people who are just as competitive as you. The games are the formats quant trading firms use in interviews, so the practice counts twice. Read the rules of each game on Market Making Games before your sitting.
What you will play
Nine games, one skill
Every game runs on the Market Making Games platform from Trading Interview, built around the formats quant trading firms use to see how a candidate thinks: quoting under time pressure, pricing, probability.
01
Make Me a Market
Make a market on a fact or a guesstimate: quote a bid and an ask, adjust it as the news lands, and trade against the room. The classic interview exercise, played live.
Play it on Trading Interview →
02
Market of Cards
Quote your own spread and trade on everyone else's while the hidden cards reveal one by one and you work out what the others hold. Both sides of market making in one game, fifteen seats at a table.
Play it on Trading Interview →
03
ETF Trading Challenge
Spot the mispricing between an ETF and the stocks inside it and trade it before it closes, through price moves, news and competing traders.
Play it on Trading Interview →
04
Fermi Questions Challenge
Break a big estimation problem into simple factors and land the right order of magnitude. Scored on how close you get, on a log scale.
Play it on Trading Interview →
05
Probability Betting
Spot mispriced odds in dice, card and coin bets and size each one to grow the bankroll. Probability and Kelly sizing, under pressure.
Play it on Trading Interview →
06
Next Card Betting
Higher or lower, inside or outside: call the next card and size the bet with the Kelly criterion to grow the balance without blowing it.
Play it on Trading Interview →
07
Fruit Market Game
Price baskets of fruit against the quoted spreads by computing the cross products fast. How many profitable trades you get through depends on your mental maths speed.
Play it on Trading Interview →
08
Math Challenge
Mental arithmetic against the clock. The speed and accuracy every other game here depends on.
Practise on Trading Interview →
09
The Marble Olympics
Trade a live marble football final in real time: quote the product of the two team totals, then take the one-shot side bets as the goals go in.
Play it on Trading Interview →Every society plays the identical set, in the identical order, on the identical parameters. Which games come in which round is just above. Each card opens the game on Market Making Games, where the Games are played; the same games live on Trading Interview as interview practice. Club code AIC-10 takes 10% off both.
Practise on the platforms behind the Games
Both from the Trading Interview team. Club code AIC-10 takes 10% off either.
Calendar
Every sitting
Every confirmed society's qualifier and campus final, in your own time zone.
Check your sign-ups
Sent by emailNot sure which sitting you are on, or whether you are on one at all? Enter the address you signed up with. We email it every sitting it is on, with the date and whether you are in or still waiting for the organiser.