Easy Prop Trading Interview Questions
The entry point into prop trading preparation - enough to learn the shape of the round before the difficulty rises.
25 questions, all free to practise. The topics that come up most are probability (7), statistics (7), combinatorics (5), finance & derivatives (4).
- A hundred days of compoundingEasyBrainteasersFinance & DerivativesView →
- A majority of onesEasyCombinatoricsView →
- A perfect-power dice sumEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- A race between two small-angle ratesEasyCalculusView →
- A repeated digit in the PINEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- A two-sigma tail probabilityEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Additions in a naive moving averageEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- Both sixes given at least oneEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- Chi-square test for a varianceEasyStatisticsView →
- Correlation of two event indicatorsEasyProbabilityStatisticsView →
- Divisible by 2 or 3EasyCombinatoricsView →
- Net P&L of a two-leg book from DV01EasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Numbers with exactly two set bitsEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- Paid a dollar or the drawEasyExpected ValueStatisticsView →
- R-squared when you duplicate every pointEasyStatisticsView →
- Recover an XOR of two unknownsEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- Regressing with zero covarianceEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Ripple on a pondEasyCalculusView →
- Settlement on a pay-fixed FRAEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Sharing your weekday of birthEasyProbabilityView →
- Sharpe of two combined uncorrelated strategiesEasyStatisticsFinance & DerivativesView →
- Slope of a product at a special pointEasyCalculusView →
- The costliest roulette bet on the tableEasyProbabilityExpected ValueView →
- Three-one strings with matching endpointsEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Two heads given an even countEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
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