Medium Options Trading Interview Questions
The level most options trading questions actually land at.
62 questions, all free to practise. The topics that come up most are probability (20), expected value (17), combinatorics (9), random variables (8).
- A 5 before a 7MediumProbabilityView →
- An ace in every pileMediumProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Ants on a stickMediumBrainteasersView →
- At least two sixes in five rollsMediumProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
- Break-even half-spread under adverse selectionMediumExpected ValueMarket Making & Betting GamesView →
- Bridge and torchMediumBrainteasersView →
- Call count of memoized FibonacciMediumProgramming & DSAView →
- Cash out or bustMediumProbabilityExpected ValueView →
- Climbing stairsMediumCombinatoricsProgramming & DSAView →
- Coin sets the number of dice rollsMediumProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- Counting the innermost callsMediumProgramming & DSAView →
- Detect a cycle in a linked listMediumProgramming & DSAView →
- Distinct faces in three rollsMediumExpected ValueView →
- Double integral of x + y over the unit squareMediumCalculusView →
- Eight coins, one lightMediumCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Eight dice summing to twelveMediumProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Empty boxesMediumExpected ValueView →
- Expectation of −2 ln UMediumRandom VariablesCalculusView →
- Expected absolute difference of two diceMediumExpected ValueView →
- Expected fives before the first sixMediumProbabilityExpected ValueView →
- Expected gap on 30-sided diceMediumProbabilityExpected ValueView →
- Expected median of three diceMediumProbabilityExpected ValueView →
- Filling a pool with the drain openMediumBrainteasersView →
- Four fives before the first sixMediumProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
- Heads given the ends differMediumConditional Probability & ExpectationExpected ValueView →
- How fast the bubble's skin growsMediumCalculusView →
- Identical balls, no empty boxMediumCombinatoricsView →
- In-place array rotationMediumProgramming & DSAView →
- Large sum given a sixMediumProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- Leaves of a degree-3 treeMediumProgramming & DSAView →
- Locking a profit by hedging after the odds moveMediumExpected ValueMarket Making & Betting GamesView →
- Matching penniesMediumMarket Making & Betting GamesView →
- Math books stay togetherMediumCombinatoricsView →
- Maximum loss on a collarMediumFinance & DerivativesView →
- Minimum defense frequency against a betMediumProbabilityExpected ValueView →
- Optimal quote widthMediumMarket Making & Betting GamesView →
- Pairing up six peopleMediumCombinatoricsView →
- Pay to play with a capMediumExpected ValueMarket Making & Betting GamesView →
- Prime sumMediumProbabilityView →
- Product of two dice, doubled on doublesMediumExpected ValueMarket Making & Betting GamesView →
- Profit on a risk reversalMediumFinance & DerivativesView →
- Put–call parity arbitrageMediumFinance & DerivativesView →
- Rank–nullity dimension countMediumLinear AlgebraView →
- Rare-event Poisson approximationMediumProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
- Rolling a 5-sided die to reach fiveMediumProbabilityExpected ValueView →
- Rolling until two rolls differ by twoMediumProbabilityExpected ValueView →
- Rolls to a six before a fiveMediumProbabilityExpected ValueView →
- Sharpe ratio in a marble gameMediumExpected ValueStatisticsView →
- Sizing a cross-book arbitrage lockMediumMarket Making & Betting GamesView →
- Splitting a merged Poisson totalMediumStochastic ProcessesView →
- Tennis: two sets or three?MediumProbabilityView →
- Three ones in a rowMediumProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Three-jug measuringMediumBrainteasersView →
- Two uniforms summing below a halfMediumProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
- Variance of a sum drawn without replacementMediumRandom VariablesView →
- Variance of an aggregate Poisson totalMediumRandom VariablesStochastic ProcessesView →
- Volume of revolution of sqrt(x)MediumCalculusView →
- When a biased estimator winsMediumRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- When does the system fail to have a unique solution?MediumLinear AlgebraView →
- When to prefer memoization over tabulationMediumProgramming & DSAView →
- Why covariance matrices are PSDMediumStatisticsLinear AlgebraView →
- Wine and waterMediumBrainteasersView →
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