Education & outreach
Bringing real trading education to universities & colleges
We run guest talks and workshops for students on the fundamentals, risk, and psychology of trading — real market insight from working traders.
What we offer
Talks, workshops and real market insight
Every session is led by an active trader and pitched at student level — engaging, practical and honest about the realities of the markets.
Guest lectures
A focused, interactive session on how financial markets work, who the key participants are, and what a trading career really looks like.
Interactive workshops
Hands-on sessions such as “Mastering the Markets: Fundamentals, Risk, and Psychology of Trading” — students practise decision-making in real market scenarios.
Career & employability clinics
Q&A-style sessions that connect classroom theory to the skills employers, prop firms and trading floors value.
Featured workshop
Mastering the Markets: Fundamentals, Risk, and Psychology of Trading
Our flagship student session combines market fundamentals, practical risk management and the psychology behind consistent decision-making. Students leave with a clearer picture of how markets move and what it takes to trade them responsibly.
Fundamentals
How macro data, news and market structure drive price.
Risk
Position sizing, stop losses and protecting capital.
Psychology
Emotion, discipline and the mindset behind consistent trading.
Practice
Interactive scenarios using real market examples.
UEL Seminar
Inside our University of East London seminar
A packed lecture theatre, live market data on the screen and a room full of students asking real questions about risk, psychology and building a career in the markets.
A full lecture theatre at UEL
Work experience day
A day on the floor with Wandsworth College
Business students from Wandsworth College (South Thames Colleges Group) spent a work experience day with us — not shadowing from the back of the room, but sat at live desks. We walked them through our macro playbook, set them up on trading accounts and had them react to real news headlines alongside our traders. In three hours they went from knowing nothing about the markets to reading a headline and forming a view. Scroll the story below.
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Business students from Wandsworth College arrive on the trading floor.
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Set up on our macro playbook and live accounts to react to news headlines.
03One-to-one time with working traders at the desk.
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What they learnt: interpreting headlines, risk-on vs risk-off, preparing for the session, reacting live.
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Three hours in: from zero knowledge to reading and reacting to headlines.
06A full group, a real desk environment — not a classroom simulation.
On campus seminar
Money, macro and real-world context at Wandsworth College
Back at Wandsworth College — also part of South Thames Colleges Group — for a financial literacy seminar. We covered dollar-cost averaging, why inflation quietly erodes savings, and how macroeconomics and government policy shape the cost of living, jobs and opportunity. No hype, no signals: just the economic literacy every student should leave education with.
- Dollar-cost averaging
- Investing a fixed amount on a schedule — why consistency beats trying to time the market.
- Inflation & cost of living
- What rising prices do to savings, and why leaving cash idle is itself a decision.
- Macro & economic policy
- Interest rates, money supply and labour market data — how policy filters down to society.
- Financial literacy
- Budgeting, risk and long-term goals framed for students at the very start of their journey.
Financial literacy seminars
On campus at Merton College
Merton and Wandsworth both sit under South Thames Colleges Group, and we were invited to deliver financial literacy seminars across the group. Day one took us to Merton College, where we spoke to business students about why investing matters when costs and inflation keep climbing — then worked through live case studies showing how price reacts when the data lands. Scroll the story below.
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Day one at Merton College — why investing matters when costs and inflation keep rising.
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Case study 1: data comes in better than expected — how price reacts, live on screen.
03Investing framed as a life skill first, not a get-rich-quick pitch.
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Open Q&A on careers, discipline and what the markets actually demand.
05Reading the chart together — part of our financial literacy seminars across South Thames Colleges Group.
Where we've been
Recent campuses and workshops
Universities and colleges we have worked with to bring live trading and financial literacy education directly to students.
- 6+
- Campuses visited
- 500+
- Students reached
- 100%
- Led by working traders
University of East London
Mastering the Markets — fundamentals, risk and psychology to a full lecture theatre.
University of Huddersfield
A markets and careers presentation for business and finance students — how professional traders actually work.
Wandsworth College
Financial literacy on campus, then a full day on our live trading floor.
Merton College
Investing, inflation and live case studies with business students.
Kingston College
Part of our South Thames Colleges Group programme — budgeting, inflation and investing as a life skill.
South Thames Colleges Group
Rolling seminars delivered across colleges in the group.
Add your campus to the list
Tell us your audience, time slot and topic — we will shape the session around it.
Who it's for
Built for education and student societies
We work with universities, colleges, student finance and investment societies, and careers teams to tailor each session to your audience and time slot.
- Universities and business schools
- Colleges and further-education institutions
- Student finance, investment and trading societies
- Careers and employability teams
Invite us to speak
Bring live trading education to your students
Tell us about your event, audience and dates. We will suggest a format and topic that fits your students.