Invest in Yourself
Are you ambitious, competitive and skilled in negotiation?
Our annual Stock Market Challenge is an opportunity to gain real-world experience of analysing markets and making investments.
Check out this video from Stock Market Challenge in January 2025 to get an idea of what it is all about!
Stock Market Challenge 28 January 2026!
Simulate the excitement of the trading room floor
Stock Market Challenge is a fast-moving and exciting stock market simulation game called Finance Lab Pro.
Set in a fictitious world financial market this competitive game will give you the opportunity to experience analysing the market and making investments.
You do not have to be studying a finance related subject or have any specialist knowledge of finance!
It’s a game of strategic thinking and pressured decisions. So you will need to demonstrate many of the skills necessary for business life, including, team-working, problem-solving and critical thinking.
Prizes are available to the winners including insight opportunities with participating local employers. Pizza will be provided and you'll be given the opportunity to network with top employers.
This event will take place on 28 January 2026 from 5-8pm in the second floor lab in the Computer Science Building. Queen's students must register in advance to take part.
This Careers programme is also Future-Ready Award accredited through the Combined Route for student who wish to apply to gain the award.
Employers taking part in Stock Market Challenge
Network with top employers at this event and compete for insight days with them.
The Employers that are taking part in Stock Market Challenge 2026:
Deloitte, Kainos, First Derivative, Funds Axis and Grant Thornton
Stock Market Challenge Winners 2026
Congratulations to our Stock Market Challenge 2026 winner Cadhan Nelis, you played a great game! And congratulations also to the runners up and everyone who took part in the popular competition.
List of Stock Market Challenge 2026 Winners and Runners Up:
1st Place – Cadhan Nelis, Queen’s Computer Science ,with William Gordon from Deloitte.
2nd place – Diarmuid Lawell, Queen’s PPE, and Robin Smyth, Queen’s PPE, with Hannah Flemming from Kainos.
3rd place – Kyan Cassidy, Queen’s Finance, and Oliver Billing, Queen’s Applied Maths – with Joanne Marron, Aoibhin McKinney from First Derivative.
4th place – Alex Dunne, Queen’s Aerospace Engineering and Colm Daly, Queen’s Aerospace Engineering – with Hannah McCloskey, Phoebe Callista from Funds Axis.
5th place -Yash Somaiya, Queen’s Aerospace Engineering, and Neha Hendre, Queen’s Business Management – with Conor Gallagher, Jason Smyth from Grant Thornton.
6th place – Rosaleen Grant, Queen’s Finance and Trading, and Harry Jackson, Queen’s English student.