Cambridge Trading Academy 2026

 

The Optiver & Cambridge Trading Academy

The Optiver Trading Academy returns to Cambridge in partnership with the Cambridge University Algorithmic Trading Society (CUATS). Led by Optiver industry experts, this eight-session programme blends academic insights with practical application, taking you from the foundations of market making and options theory to hands-on algorithm development and testing, including lectures from our traders and senior Quantitative Researchers on how research shapes the way we trade, and on how we use AI at Optiver. You'll design and refine Python-based trading strategies on Optiver's simulated exchange, Optibook, and put your skills to the test in the final Varsity trading event.

Course overview

• Market making theory: fou