Medium Prop Trading Interview Questions
The level most prop trading questions actually land at.
91 questions, 27 of them free to practise right now. The topics that come up most are probability (19), calculus (14), random variables (13), finance & derivatives (13).
- 1000 bottles, one poisonedMediumBrainteasersView →
- A Cholesky diagonal entryMediumLinear AlgebraView →
- A point near the cone's baseMediumProbabilityCalculusView →
- Coin-pile NimMediumBrainteasersMarket Making & Betting GamesView →
- Covariance of sum and differenceMediumRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Density of a sum of two uniformsMediumProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
- Dice game, up to three rollsMediumExpected ValueStochastic ProcessesView →
- Exact comparisons for min and maxMediumProgramming & DSAView →
- Expectation as a sum of tailsMediumRandom VariablesExpected ValueView →
- Fair outcome from a biased coinMediumProbabilityStatisticsView →
- Full housesMediumProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Gambler's ruinMediumProbabilityStochastic ProcessesView →
- Newton's division-free reciprocalMediumCalculusView →
- Number of runsMediumExpected ValueView →
- OLS slope from four pointsMediumStatisticsView →
- One hundred light bulbsMediumBrainteasersView →
- Order statistics of two uniformsMediumRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Rate of a growing shadowMediumCalculusView →
- Rehedging a book after a moveMediumFinance & DerivativesView →
- Sum of independent PoissonsMediumProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
- The profitable range of a short strangleMediumFinance & DerivativesView →
- Tiling a stripMediumCombinatoricsView →
- Volume where two cylinders crossMediumCalculusView →
- When time decay reversesMediumFinance & DerivativesView →
- Which deck for two reds?MediumProbabilityView →
- Whose draw is larger?MediumProbabilityView →
- Winner's curseMediumMarket Making & Betting GamesView →
- A family clustered at a round tableMediumCombinatorics Premium
- A stationary probabilityMediumStochastic Processes Premium
- Absorption probability on a lineMediumProbabilityStochastic Processes Premium
- Arbitraging a mispriced forward loanMediumFinance & Derivatives Premium
- Arc length of a curveMediumCalculus Premium
- Arrivals before the rival streamMediumProbabilityStochastic Processes Premium
- Backing out a correlationMediumRandom VariablesStatistics Premium
- Backing out the informed flow from imbalanceMediumMarket Making & Betting Games Premium
- Both even given an even sumMediumProbabilityConditional Probability & Expectation Premium
- Buyer count in a thinned arrival streamMediumProbabilityStochastic Processes Premium
- Cheapest open-top boxMediumCalculus Premium
- Convergence of the integral of x^(-p)MediumCalculus Premium
- Count set bitsMediumProgramming & DSA Premium
- Counting the innermost callsMediumProgramming & DSA Premium
- Cutting a cubeMediumBrainteasers Premium
- Derangements of four itemsMediumCombinatorics Premium
- Diversified VaR of two positionsMediumStatisticsFinance & Derivatives Premium
- Duration-plus-convexity price moveMediumFinance & Derivatives Premium
- Euclid's worst-case step countMediumProgramming & DSA Premium
- Expectation of −2 ln UMediumRandom VariablesCalculus Premium
- Expected exponential of Brownian motionMediumStochastic Processes Premium
- Expected maximum of three diceMediumRandom VariablesExpected Value Premium
- Expected sum of a random subsetMediumExpected Value Premium
- First to roll a sixMediumProbability Premium
- Five distinct ranksMediumProbabilityCombinatorics Premium
- Forward vs. futures priceMediumFinance & Derivatives Premium
- Integral by substitution: 2x e^(x^2)MediumCalculus Premium
- Inventory-skewed reservation priceMediumMarket Making & Betting Games Premium
- Inversions in a shuffleMediumCombinatoricsExpected Value Premium
- Joint default rangeMediumProbabilityFinance & Derivatives Premium
- Larger eigenvalue of a 2×2MediumLinear Algebra Premium
- Last two digits of a powerMediumCombinatoricsBrainteasers Premium
- Leibniz rule derivative at x = 1MediumCalculus Premium
- Macaulay duration of a coupon bondMediumFinance & Derivatives Premium
- Optimal bid-ask placementMediumMarket Making & Betting Games Premium
- Par swap rate definitionMediumFinance & Derivatives Premium
- Periodicity and limiting distributionMediumStochastic Processes Premium
- Position of the first spadeMediumCombinatoricsExpected Value Premium
- Pricing a coupon bond off the spot curveMediumFinance & Derivatives Premium
- Reaching the target before ruinMediumStochastic Processes Premium
- Reading order flowMediumMarket Making & Betting Games Premium
- Reducing a matrix power with Cayley–HamiltonMediumLinear Algebra Premium
- Remaining life of a memoryless partMediumRandom Variables Premium
- Renewal-reward fraction of time runningMediumExpected ValueStochastic Processes Premium
- Return time from a three-state chainMediumStochastic Processes Premium
- Rolls until a face repeatsMediumProbabilityExpected Value Premium
- Short-straddle P&L when vol stays lowMediumFinance & Derivatives Premium
- Sift-up swaps in a binary heapMediumProgramming & DSA Premium
- Spaced onesMediumCombinatorics Premium
- The Markov propertyMediumStochastic Processes Premium
- The St. Petersburg paradoxMediumExpected ValueMarket Making & Betting Games Premium
- The costliest mergeMediumProgramming & DSA Premium
- The half-full nodeMediumProgramming & DSA Premium
- The painted cubeMediumBrainteasers Premium
- Two uniforms summing below a halfMediumProbabilityRandom Variables Premium
- Two uniforms summing past 1.5MediumProbabilityCalculus Premium
- Two-sided p-value of a mean testMediumStatistics Premium
- Variance of a compound daily totalMediumRandom Variables Premium
- Variance of a lognormalMediumRandom VariablesFinance & Derivatives Premium
- Variance of coins-per-die headsMediumRandom VariablesStatistics Premium
- What a p-value isMediumStatistics Premium
- When does the system fail to have a unique solution?MediumLinear Algebra Premium
- Where the slope is steepest downhillMediumCalculus Premium
- Within distance d on the unit intervalMediumProbabilityCalculus Premium
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