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Market Making Games

Master the art of market making and taking with our interactive trading games

Market Making Example

Make Me a Market!

Make markets on Facts and Guesstimates. Improve your market making skills with our Fermi Questions!

Market Taking

Probability Betting Game

Spot mispriced odds in dice, cards, and coin bets to grow your bankroll! Practice probability calculations and Kelly Criterion sizing.

Market Taking Example

Cards Game

Calculate expected values and trade on the sum of hidden cards. Combine probability, memory, and quick mental math to maximize your bankroll.

Market Taking Free

Fruit Market Making Game

Make markets on fruit baskets by rapidly computing cross-products and comparing to bid/ask spreads! Your mental math speed determines how many profitable trades you can execute.

Market Taking

Dice and Cards Game

Trade on products of hidden cards and dice! Combine probability, memory, and quick mental math to maximize your bankroll.

Market Taking

Basketball Game

Combine sports dynamics with real-time trading decisions, risk management, and reading information flow.

Market Making & Taking

Market of Cards

Compete with AI traders by quoting bid/ask spreads and trading on theirs - all while inferring their cards and while hidden cards gradually reveal! Master both sides of market making in this multi-player information game.

Market Taking

ETF Challenge

Spot mispricings between an ETF and its underlying stocks, then trade the arbitrage before it closes! Manage price moves, news events, and competing bots to grow your P&L.

Market Taking

Next Card Betting

Predict whether the next card is higher or lower, inside or outside, then size your bets with the Kelly criterion to grow your balance!

Market Making

Fermi Questions

Break down big estimation problems into simple factors and nail the right order of magnitude! Sharpen the guesstimate skills that power confident market making.

Market Taking

The Marble Olympics

Trade a live simulated marble football final in real time! Quote the product of the two team totals and one-shot side bets to grow your P&L.

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Multiplayer

Play Multiplayer on marketmakinggames.com

Access to the Market Making Games website is included with your Trading Interview membership. On Trading Interview, you have the opportunity to practise in single player mode with the available games. On the Market Making Games website, you can play games in both single player mode and multiplayer mode. Invite friends, join tournaments and compete for the leaderboard!

Real-time multiplayer Tournaments & competitions Global leaderboards Private rooms
Interview prep

Why market making games matter

Once you've been through the initial stages of interviews, market making games become an important part of the hiring process for numerous trading firms. These games are frequently utilized by interviewers to assess a candidate's intuition, ability to handle stress, mental agility, short-term memory, and their capacity to derive valuable insights from provided information.

Skill Assessment
Trading firms use these games to evaluate your intuition, stress handling, and mental agility during the interview process.
Memory & Processing
Tests your short-term memory and ability to quickly process information under pressure to make informed decisions.
Insight Development
Develops your ability to derive valuable insights from information provided during trading scenarios.

To ensure you perform exceptionally well in this vital component of trading interviews, our market making games provide the preparation you need to succeed. Our comprehensive training platform gives you the edge in interview preparation by simulating real market-making scenarios you'll face during the hiring process.

Pro Tips

  • Making a market on "Facts & Guesstimates" - Follow a clear, consistent logic when adjusting your quotes so it's easy to recall them for any follow-up questions.
  • Cards Game - Scale your stakes to match your bankroll. Ever heard of the Kelly Criterion?
  • Market of Cards - Is there a smarter way to compute the true expected value (EV) of the table after the first round?