We built FQS to teach high schoolers how markets actually work. Now we want to bring it to your students in person. Tell us who your group is and what you want them to walk away with, and we'll put a session together and help you run it. It's free.
FQS, short for the Finance and Quant Society, is a free program that teaches high schoolers how markets work. Students run it. We started it because most finance stuff online is either painfully basic or spread across a hundred different places, and almost none of it lets you try anything for real.
So we built one spot where someone who knows nothing about markets can start at the very beginning and end up testing their own trading strategy on real data. That's the thing we'd bring to your group, taught by people who were sitting where your students are not long ago.
The heart of it is a ten unit curriculum, around two hundred short lessons that each end in a quick quiz. It opens with what an exchange is and how a single trade happens, then works up through reading a company's numbers, valuation, portfolio theory, options, and lands on writing and testing a trading algorithm. No math or finance background needed to start.
Ten units that build on each other, from how a market works to writing a real strategy. Short and plain, and each one ends in a quiz so students know they actually have it.
We host online workshops and events through the year, from intro sessions to deeper topic nights. A simple way to get your group started or keep them going after a first session.
A pretend market students trade for a few minutes with play money. New setup every day, with news and risk and a score at the end that tells them what they did well and badly.
We run hackathons, trading tournaments, and stock pitch contests through the year. A good fit when your group wants something to work toward together.
We're not going to hand every group the same slideshow. Before anything, we'll ask who your students are, how old they are, how much time we've got, and what you want them to leave with. A room of freshmen who have never bought a stock needs something completely different from a club that already runs a paper portfolio, so that's where we start.
A few ways we could set it up:
A single session that leaves students with the basics, how a market works and how to read a stock, run through our live tools so it doesn't feel like a lecture.
A run of four or six sessions mapped to your schedule that takes a group from the ground up through a real chunk of the curriculum.
A stock pitch, a tournament on our trading floor, or a strategy contest, set up and scored by us, for a group that likes a challenge.
A talk or a Q and A about markets, quant, or what studying and working in finance is actually like, for a club meeting or an assembly.
If you run a finance or investing club, we can hand you a full plan for the year and keep helping, so you're not building meetings from scratch every week.
If none of those is quite right, just tell us what you're picturing. We'd rather build the thing you actually need than talk you into one of these.
Schools and teachers, student clubs, libraries, nonprofits, summer programs, community groups. If you've got a room of students and a bit of time, we can probably do something good with it. You don't need a finance teacher or any special setup on your end. All of it runs in a browser.
Tell us about your group and what you're thinking. It comes straight to us and a real person will write back. Nothing here is a commitment, it's just the start of a conversation.