Previously sponsored by Jane Street

Market Making Game

Do your best to outbid, outguess, and outsmart your opponents in an 8-hour, in-person simulated trading event that brings a slice of the New York Stock Exchange to Carnegie Mellon. Starting with contracts and play cash, your goal is to buy and sell to maximize return — with the exact contract value revealed through economic questions, math puzzles, and trivia each round.

Past Winners ▾

2026

1. 1st
   4sigma $2,000

   Erik Pernebo · Max Gao · Julius Wentrup · Neil Porwal · Charlie Lin · Ahaan Thakur
2. 2nd
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3. 3rd
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The most challenging part is the uncertainty that comes from not knowing the exact value of the contract and having to trade it anyways if you want any chance to make money. It wasn’t about whether the traders knew they were 100% right but whether they had a good feeling that they were more right than others.

— Dallas Foster, BSCF Alumni

Previously sponsored by Goldman Sachs

Quantathon

Tackle challenges in mathematics and data science, abstracted from real-life financial scenarios, in an intense day-long problem-solving competition. Quantathon brings together students from all backgrounds — top teams present their findings to firm recruiters and employees, with winning teams earning thousands of dollars in cash prizes.

Past Winners ▾

2026

1. 1st
   Golman Stacks $2,500

   Erik Pernebo · Max Gao · Vincent Qi · Harsh Akunuri
2. 2nd
   Team Exec $1,000

   Rishi Prabhu · Arjun Patel · Jacob Braginsky · Siddhant Bhargava
3. 3rd
   Algebros $500

   Wilson Pan · Sunny Guo · Keming Ming · Henry Zheng

2025

1. 1st
   Team Team $2,000

   Lucas Zhang · James Yang · Daniel Park · William Chien
2. 2nd
   Team Beige $1,200

   Kevin Shen · Anagh Sangavarapu · Alex Willoughby · Anirudh Mani

We love working around great minds to solve great problems… This competition is a great opportunity for students to apply their quantitative skills such as mathematics, probability, statistical analysis and so on in the field of finance. Knowledge in finance is not required, and students with all backgrounds were welcome to participate.

— Sijie Wei, Co-Founder of Quant Club

Rotman

Chicago & NYC Treks

Quant Club organizes annual treks to major finance hubs for selected first- and second-year students exploring quant internships. Office visits feature tours, networking, and firm-led activities that offer direct exposure to firms’ culture, work, and recruiting.

Chicago 2027 In Progress

In 2026 we visited Jump Trading, DRW, and Chicago Trading Company.

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New York In the Works

New York trek details coming soon.

Other Events

As opportunities arise, Quant Club partners with financial services firms to host recruiting sessions, panels, and technical talks.

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