About Us
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Organization
All members meet weekly to discuss recent macro and geopolitical market moves, with senior members sharing a specific insight related to the week’s market climate, skill-building, or career tips. Separately, members are organized in teams, dubbed ‘desks’, covering the sectors of Interest Rates, Credit, Commodities, Foreign Exchange, and Securitized Products. Each desk spends the quarter building a trade pitch in its area and presents it to the full club at the end of the quarter.
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Process
Admission is selective. We seek curious students who want to understand why markets move. You don’t need all the answers; you just need the drive to find them. Admitted students join a one-quarter New Recruit Education program taught by members. You’ll learn the basics to build a solid pitch in any of the five desks. The quarter ends with a Capstone Pitch on a product within the club’s scope, presented to the full club alongside desk pitches. Afterward, New Recruits become members and join a desk based on their preferences the next quarter.
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Apply
Thematic Trading Group recruitment cycles for new members are at the beginning of Fall and Winter Quarters
Our Founders
Henry Cummins


Agustin Buteler
Senior majoring in Economics with a specialization in Business, minoring in Data Science. I am a Chicago-born, London raised, Argentinian. I am an avid rugby and tennis player, a River Plate fan, and I love the card game Truco! After two summers interning at Morgan Stanley, I will be joining them full-time as an interest rates trader in July 2026.
Elliott Gordon
Junior majoring in Economics with coursework in Statistics and Computer Science from Riverside, CT. I enjoy running and going to the gym in my free time as well as poker, boating, and photography. In the summer of 2026 I will be interning at Nomura within their Global Markets Division.


Maria Rivera
Sophomore majoring in Economics and Cognitive Science. I am from Columbus, OH with roots in Mexico and enjoy reading (especially behavioral economics books), swimming, running, and drinking matcha with family and friends. I interned last summer as an Equity Analyst on the investments team of an $8bn AUM Philanthropy and am currently recruiting for Sales & Trading.
Blaine Stewart
Sophomore majoring in Math and Economics from Houston TX. I enjoy working on old cars, learning skateboard tricks, board games, reading, and volleyball.

