What we are
An educational institution that teaches how to operate under pressure, preparation, execution, review, revision, and certifies it against an independent standard.
Lend your work to a standard, not a product.
SimFi University is building a credentialed curriculum for market operators, measured by a behavioral standard that is independent of any firm that profits from it. We are inviting a small number of scholars and practitioners to author it, deliver it, and hold it to account.
What this is
A university, not a course catalog.
Most trading education is sold on outcomes it cannot honestly promise. We are building the opposite: an institution whose curriculum is designed backward from measurable competencies, graded on documented process rather than profit, and grounded in published research at every claim.
The difference is not tone. It is structure. A course provider asks you to endorse its results. A university asks you to help set its standard and then holds itself to it in public.
What we are not
A signal service, a strategy, or a fund. We do not teach or endorse a way to trade. We build the operator and supply the instruments; the strategy remains the student's own.
Why your name is safe here
Independence is the whole architecture.
The credential we award is the SimFi Trader Score — a behavioral standard on a neutral backend owned by neither the University that teaches nor the Lab that simulates. It is described the way a credit score is: an independent measure, owned by no bank.
That independence is not a promise on a page. It is enforced in the architecture, so it survives reorganizations and can be audited by outside scholars.
The standard is independent and not-for-profit.
Owned by neither the University nor the Lab; no data path runs from simulated outcomes into a grade.
Its methodology is published and peer-reviewable.
The measure and its grounding are open to examination, not held as a trade secret.
So faculty can endorse it without conflict of interest.
You associate with a method you can inspect, not a commercial result you would have to vouch for.
And that endorsement is what makes the credential real.
The institution is only as credible as the people willing to put their name to it — which is why independence comes first.
Where your field fits
Identify your area of expertise.
The curriculum rests on five bodies of scholarship. Each has a page describing exactly how your discipline maps to what we teach, what we would ask of you, and what the work offers that a home appointment does not. Begin where your work lives.
Measurement Scholar
Validity, reliability, and defensibility of the standard itself. The seat that credentializes the credential.
Read the brief →Decision Scientist
Process versus outcome, skill versus luck, deliberate practice. The scholarship beneath our grading commitment.
Read the brief →Learning Scientist
Backward design, mastery learning, feedback on process. The scholarship beneath the teaching itself.
Read the brief →Microstructure Economist
How markets clear at the execution layer — order books, priority, impact, effective spread. The domain fidelity beneath execution.
Read the brief →Behavioral Markets Scholar
Decision-making, stress physiology, tilt, and discipline under stakes. The research beneath our behavioral instruments.
Read the brief →The practical questions
What you would want to know before a first conversation.
The Faculty FAQ answers the questions a careful scholar asks first — not the questions a casual visitor asks.
Engagement
The three ways to take part — authoring a course, holding an advisory seat, or engaging a cohort — and what each commits you to.
Read the answers →Recognition
How contributions are recognized and compensated in principle, and how the specifics are set individually. Structured to protect, not compromise, the independence above.
Read the answers →Questions
Ownership of the standard, the IP you keep and grant, use of your contributed work, and the institution's educational-publisher posture.
Read the answers →Voices
Founding faculty, named here as they join. We publish no endorsement we have not earned.
Read the answers →
Contact
The real conversion is a conversation.
If any of this reads like the kind of institution you would put your name to, we would like to talk.
There is no application to rush — only a request to open a dialogue, on your terms and at your pace.