Easy Options Trading Interview Questions
The entry point into options trading preparation - enough to learn the shape of the round before the difficulty rises.
68 questions, 66 of them free to practise right now. The topics that come up most are probability (34), expected value (15), combinatorics (15), conditional probability & expectation (8).
- A dice sum divisible by threeEasyProbabilityView →
- A die with one face decrementedEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- A dry weekend, assuming independenceEasyProbabilityView →
- A heart or a king given redEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- A sum of four before a sum of twoEasyProbabilityView →
- A three given a sum divisible by threeEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- Ants on a squareEasyProbabilityBrainteasersView →
- Area between a parabola and a lineEasyCalculusView →
- Average speed over three lapsEasyBrainteasersView →
- Backing out the correlation from portfolio riskEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Bacteria doubling on a clockEasyBrainteasersView →
- Both red among the top twoEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- Capped exponential payoutEasyRandom VariablesExpected ValueView →
- Counting flushesEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Dots on distinct edgesEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Even count until the coin repeatsEasyProbabilityView →
- Exactly one ace in three drawsEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Expected sets for a favored playerEasyProbabilityExpected ValueView →
- Face card or heartEasyProbabilityView →
- Face or ace given a red cardEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- Fair odds on a parlayEasyMarket Making & Betting GamesView →
- Fair price of a high-faces-only dice sumEasyExpected ValueMarket Making & Betting GamesView →
- Fair price of a higher-die contractEasyExpected ValueMarket Making & Betting GamesView →
- First success on an even trialEasyRandom VariablesExpected ValueView →
- First tail within two flipsEasyProbabilityView →
- Four dice summing to twentyEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Heads given at least one headEasyExpected ValueView →
- Hopping rabbitEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- How many sixes on the die?EasyExpected ValueBrainteasersView →
- Interior crossings of a decagon's diagonalsEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Keep the d8 or gamble on the d12?EasyProbabilityExpected ValueView →
- Matching chips, two drawsEasyCombinatoricsExpected ValueView →
- More heads than tails in six flipsEasyProbabilityView →
- One blue die matches the redEasyProbabilityView →
- One re-roll allowedEasyExpected ValueView →
- Present value of a deferred growing perpetuityEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Probability two dice sum to a primeEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Rank of a matrix productEasyLinear AlgebraView →
- Retries under a hard capEasyExpected ValueStochastic ProcessesView →
- Rolling a die to size the next dieEasyConditional Probability & ExpectationExpected ValueView →
- Rolling until you match the first rollEasyProbabilityExpected ValueView →
- Rolls until an even sumEasyProbabilityExpected ValueView →
- Round table with a couple togetherEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Sample SD with Bessel's correctionEasyStatisticsView →
- Shrinking the standard errorEasyStatisticsView →
- Sizing a put–call parity mispricingEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Slope of a product at a special pointEasyCalculusView →
- Spread of a coin-flip payoffEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Strictly increasing three-digit numbersEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Summing n plus one over two to the nEasyCalculusView →
- The distance-2 layer of a graphEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- The higher die shows a fourEasyProbabilityView →
- The straddle's upper breakevenEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Three dice, increasingEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Three distinct dice, no sixEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Three primes in six rollsEasyProbabilityView →
- Three-dice total given the firstEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- Top three dice summing to eighteenEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Two mismatched diceEasyProbabilityView →
- Value of the put insurance in a crashEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Variance of a reciprocal uniformEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Ways to reach deuceEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- When the colony outgrows its life supportEasyBrainteasersCalculusView →
- Where the maximum landsEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Which side holds the heavy weightEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Which side of a two-sided marketEasyExpected ValueMarket Making & Betting GamesView →
- Return speed for a target averageEasyBrainteasers Premium
- The first die beats the secondEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & Expectation Premium
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