Medium Options Trading Interview Questions
The level most options trading questions actually land at.
62 questions, 27 of them free to practise right now. 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 →
- Bridge and torchMediumBrainteasersView →
- Cash out or bustMediumProbabilityExpected ValueView →
- Coin sets the number of dice rollsMediumProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- Distinct faces in three rollsMediumExpected ValueView →
- Eight dice summing to twelveMediumProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- 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 →
- Locking a profit by hedging after the odds moveMediumExpected ValueMarket Making & Betting GamesView →
- Matching penniesMediumMarket Making & Betting GamesView →
- Pay to play with a capMediumExpected ValueMarket Making & Betting GamesView →
- Pricing the higher of two diceMediumExpected ValueMarket Making & Betting GamesView →
- Profit on a risk reversalMediumFinance & DerivativesView →
- 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 →
- Tennis: two sets or three?MediumProbabilityView →
- Three ones in a rowMediumProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Three-jug measuringMediumBrainteasersView →
- Ants on a stickMediumBrainteasers Premium
- At least two sixes in five rollsMediumProbabilityRandom Variables Premium
- Break-even half-spread under adverse selectionMediumExpected ValueMarket Making & Betting Games Premium
- Call count of memoized FibonacciMediumProgramming & DSA Premium
- Climbing stairsMediumCombinatoricsProgramming & DSA Premium
- Counting the innermost callsMediumProgramming & DSA Premium
- Detect a cycle in a linked listMediumProgramming & DSA Premium
- Double integral of x + y over the unit squareMediumCalculus Premium
- Eight coins, one lightMediumCombinatoricsBrainteasers Premium
- Empty boxesMediumExpected Value Premium
- Expectation of −2 ln UMediumRandom VariablesCalculus Premium
- Expected absolute difference of two diceMediumExpected Value Premium
- Identical balls, no empty boxMediumCombinatorics Premium
- In-place array rotationMediumProgramming & DSA Premium
- Large sum given a sixMediumProbabilityConditional Probability & Expectation Premium
- Leaves of a degree-3 treeMediumProgramming & DSA Premium
- Math books stay togetherMediumCombinatorics Premium
- Maximum loss on a collarMediumFinance & Derivatives Premium
- Minimum defense frequency against a betMediumProbabilityExpected Value Premium
- Optimal quote widthMediumMarket Making & Betting Games Premium
- Pairing up six peopleMediumCombinatorics Premium
- Prime sumMediumProbability Premium
- Put–call parity arbitrageMediumFinance & Derivatives Premium
- Rank–nullity dimension countMediumLinear Algebra Premium
- Rare-event Poisson approximationMediumProbabilityRandom Variables Premium
- Splitting a merged Poisson totalMediumStochastic Processes Premium
- Two uniforms summing below a halfMediumProbabilityRandom Variables Premium
- Variance of a sum drawn without replacementMediumRandom Variables Premium
- Variance of an aggregate Poisson totalMediumRandom VariablesStochastic Processes Premium
- Volume of revolution of sqrt(x)MediumCalculus Premium
- When a biased estimator winsMediumRandom VariablesStatistics Premium
- When does the system fail to have a unique solution?MediumLinear Algebra Premium
- When to prefer memoization over tabulationMediumProgramming & DSA Premium
- Why covariance matrices are PSDMediumStatisticsLinear Algebra Premium
- Wine and waterMediumBrainteasers Premium
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