A student association for serious study of financial markets

Most economics students meet financial markets as a chapter in a textbook: a supply-and-demand curve, a volatility formula, and a sentence about risk aversion. The mechanics that govern execution (how an order becomes a fill, why quoted prices differ from achievable executions, and how a drawdown feels while unfolding) are usually left implicit.

That gap is the reason the club exists. We run a written programme, a simulator built on a documented price model, and scenario challenges that are scored on risk as well as return. The aim is competence: a member who finishes a session can explain what a number means, where it originated, and what limitations it carries.

Our programme has three parts that reinforce each other. Education supplies the concepts and the vocabulary. The simulator supplies practice with immediate, permanent consequences. Challenges supply the pressure of a deadline and a measured outcome.

Everything a member does in the simulator is recorded and cannot be edited. That constraint is deliberate. Research only means something if the record underneath it cannot be quietly improved.

Being explicit about the limits of a project is part of teaching statistics honestly, so the following are stated plainly rather than left to be discovered.

• We do not connect to any exchange, broker, or market data vendor. There is no live feed and no real trading.
• We do not offer investment advice, recommendations, or personalised guidance of any kind.
• We do not sell, buy, or hold real financial instruments, and no member of the club holds club funds in any market.
• We do not present simulated performance as evidence about real markets. A result in the simulator describes a fictional world.
• We do not collect more personal data than an account and a profile require, and we do not run third-party tracking.

Any student of the faculty can create an account and use the education centre, the simulator, competitions and event registration. Membership is granted by a club executive and adds member-only material, responsibility for parts of the programme, and access to planning meetings.

Members take on real work: curating and reviewing topics, designing scenarios, computing and presenting competition analytics, and running sessions. The standard is academic. In exchange, members shape the programme rather than consuming it.