Learn
Workshops and sessions
Biweekly member-led sessions on strategy concepts, market structure, and tooling. Hands-on workshops where you leave with working code. A paper reading group and peer mentorship for first-years.
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UM's home of Quantitative Finance Enthusiasts
Workshops, competitions, industry events, and hands-on systematic research — built by students at Maastricht University.
About
A community around quantitative finance.
MQR brings together students from data science, AI, econometrics, mathematics, and computer science who want to go deeper into quantitative research and finance than any course goes. We run workshops and competitions, bring practitioners to campus, and operate a systematic research department where members build and test their own strategies.
About MQRWhat we do
Compete
Competitions and challenges
A semester-long paper trading challenge open to all members, datathons, and interview-style market-making games. Low barrier, real leaderboards.
Research
Systematic research department
Small pods design, backtest, and run systematic strategies on liquid US equities and ETFs through a shared internal platform. Application-based.
Explore the research track
Industry
Firms on campus, and us in their offices.
Practitioner talks from prop trading firms and quant firms, office visits in Amsterdam, and partner-hosted workshops. Plus the socials that make the rest of it worth showing up for.
See what we run
Join
Two ways in.
Membership is open to any UM student with an interest in quantitative finance — no coding required. The research department recruits separately, in small cohorts. Sponsors welcome too.
Join MQR