Prepare for Success in Trading Interviews

In the high-paced world of trading, mental arithmetic is an important skill. Our Mental Arithmetic Course is designed to tackle the mathematical challenges often presented in the first round of trading interviews, where you’re often presented with a typical trader math test.

This course provides a broad array of tools, from company-specific tests to customised exercises that target your unique needs. Whether you’re seeking to improve your abilities with fractions, division, or another arithmetic area, our platform provides a focused and efficient training experience.

Each exercise is designed to simulate the real-world scenarios you’ll face in an interview. Additionally, our course offers a comprehensive analytics section, where you can access detailed reports on your performance. This feature enables you to track your progress over time, identify areas for improvement, and measure the effectiveness of your study strategy.

If you’re looking for specific company tests, we have them as well! Take a look at our Optiver 80 in 8 math test and our Flow Traders math test:

• Akuna Capital
• All Options
• Flow Traders
• Optiver

The Sequence Course is a dedicated program designed to help candidates tackle sequence problems, a common component in the first round of trading interviews. This course offers multi-level sequence problems that range from basic to complex, catering to different competency levels.

Through rigorous training and systematic exposure to a variety of sequence problems, this course aims to enhance your analytical skills and your ability to recognize patterns quickly. As you progress through the course, you’ll notice an improvement in your ability to solve sequences more accurately and efficiently, thereby increasing your confidence for the actual interview.

Also, each sequence problem is accompanied by a detailed solution and explanation, ensuring you understand the underlying logic and methodology. This blend of practice and theory makes our Sequence Course a vital tool in preparing for trading interviews.

Check out the examples:

• Example Quiz – Easy Sequences

Furthermore, we also have the Optiver NumberLogic test, which is the Optiver sequences test:

• Optiver NumberLogic test (Optiver sequences)

One of the many challenges aspiring traders face during interviews is the notorious ‘make me a market’ scenario. This live market simulation requires you to think on your feet, make rapid decisions, and above all, demonstrate your understanding of market dynamics. This might be challenging, especially without practical experience.

That’s where Trading Interview’s unique Market Making Games come into play. Designed to mimic real-life trading interview scenarios, these games serve as an interactive, engaging, and highly effective tool to prepare for ‘make me a market’ interview questions. The games offer a wide variety of simulated scenarios, each carefully crafted to reflect possible situations that can occur during interviews and in actual trading roles.

This is not the only market making game we offer. We offer different types of market making games:

• Make me a market, based on facts and guesstimates. Click here for an example.
• Expected value games based on cards and dice.
• Group game based on cards, simulating an interactive market. Click here to read more.

Our games are not only about practice – they are also about reflection and improvement. Each game offers instant feedback and analysis of your performance, highlighting both your successful strategies and areas for improvement.

In essence, our Market Making Games are more than just games – they’re a powerful, innovative learning tool that gives you a competitive edge. They transform the challenging task of preparing for ‘make me a market’ scenarios into an engaging and effective learning process. By using our games, you’ll walk into your trading interviews with confidence, ready to impress with your market-making skills.

Our Brain Teasers Course offers a unique approach to your interview preparation by engaging you in thought-provoking questions and problems. Trading interviews often include brainteasers as a way to gauge your problem-solving abilities and innovative thinking.

Our course features a wide array of brain teasers, each classified into different categories, allowing you to focus on specific types of problems. Each brainteaser also comes with hints, closely mirroring the structure of real interview situations where the interviewer might provide clues if you get stuck.

Beyond just answers, we provide detailed solutions and explanations, offering valuable insights into different problem-solving strategies. With continuous practice, you’ll develop a stronger ability to think outside the box, a crucial skill for successful trading interviews. You can also try out some examples.

 

 

• Example Quiz

In the world of trading, a solid understanding of probability and statistics is fundamental. To master the art and science of trading, traders need to quantify risk, predict outcomes, and make data-driven decisions, all of which require an in-depth understanding of these two subjects.

Trading Interview’s Probability and Statistics Course is carefully crafted to meet this need. It provides a comprehensive review of the most important topics in probability and statistics, making it an excellent resource for those looking to refresh their knowledge or fill gaps in these areas.

The course starts from basic principles such as probability distributions, hypothesis testing, and statistical inference. It then progresses to more complex concepts like regression analysis, correlation, and Bayesian statistics. The curriculum is tailored with a focus on their applications in trading, enabling candidates to understand the real-world implications of these concepts.

In addition to the theoretical lessons, the course includes a dedicated quiz section filled with interview-level questions. These questions are not just designed to test your understanding but also to provide an extension on the brainteasers section. The blend of theory and practical exercises creates a well-rounded learning experience, ensuring that you have a firm grasp of probability and statistics and can apply these principles during your interviews and future trading roles.

Overall, the Probability and Statistics Course is an invaluable tool in your preparation for trading interviews. It equips you with the statistical acumen needed in the industry, gives you practice with potential interview questions, and sets you up for success in your trading career.

• Example Lesson – Markov Chain Probability
• Example Quiz

As financial markets grow increasingly complex, a sound understanding of derivatives is essential for any aspiring trader. Our Derivatives Theory Course is tailored specifically to meet this need, especially for candidates coming from a technical background.

The course starts with a detailed introduction to the basic principles of derivatives, gradually leading you into the deeper aspects of the theory and mathematics behind the derivatives industry. A special emphasis is placed on options, ETFs, and fixed income products, which are fundamental elements in today’s trading environment.

Accompanying the theoretical material, the course provides a comprehensive quiz section featuring interview-like questions. This integration of learning and testing fosters a deeper understanding of the concepts, preparing you to answer derivatives-related questions confidently in your interviews.

• Example Lesson – The Black Scholes Model and Implied Volatility
• Example Quiz

With the rise of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, the digital assets industry has emerged as a prominent component of the global financial market. As such, our Digital Assets Course is designed for candidates who wish to enter this dynamic field.

The last couple of years, trading firms also started to engage in the market of digital markets. This is why they started to hire digital assets traders. Are you interested in a role as digital asset trader? Be prepared and stay up to date with the state of the art technologies. The information in this course is all focussed on the theory behind the different technologies, that are also publicly available all over the internet. The advantage of following this course: you don’t have to spend time to find all the relevant information. We put all the relevant information for you together. Here are some examples:

• What are Decentralised Applications (dApps)?
• Easiest Guide to Transferring and Storing Digital Assets in Your Own Wallet

• Example Lesson – Introduction to Energy Markets

In the era of algorithmic trading and machine learning, programming has become a vital skill for traders. Our Programming Course is tailored to help candidates brush up their coding skills and deepen their understanding of relevant machine learning topics.

The course begins with a thorough recap of essential programming principles and best practices for clean coding. We focus on popular languages commonly used in the industry, offering a hands-on approach that helps you gain practical experience.

In the machine learning section, you’ll be introduced to key concepts, algorithms, and applications relevant to the trading industry. This includes topics such as predictive modeling, neural networks, and reinforcement learning.

To help you practice and reinforce what you’ve learned, the course features a quiz section with typical interview programming assignments. These exercises simulate real-world scenarios, providing you with valuable practice that closely mirrors the challenges you’ll face in your interviews.

• Example Quiz

Understanding asset pricing is fundamental to any role in the financial industry. The Asset Pricing Course from Trading Interview offers a detailed examination of this critical subject matter. Designed with a primary focus on individuals seeking to enter the asset pricing industry, this course encompasses both the theoretical and practical aspects of pricing various types of financial assets.

The course content starts from the basics of asset pricing models and theories and gradually advances to complex topics such as option pricing and the application of stochastic calculus in finance. These topics are meticulously detailed and explained, enabling you to comprehend and apply complex asset pricing methodologies in real-world scenarios.

• Example Lesson – Limits to Arbitrage
• Example Quiz

Linear algebra forms the backbone of many complex mathematical models used in trading. Our Linear Algebra Course is designed to help you recap the most important topics in linear algebra and prepare for the quantitative aspects of trading interviews.

The course includes a range of topics such as vectors, matrices, determinants, linear transformations, and eigenvalues, among others. Each of these topics is explained with a clear focus on their application in trading scenarios, providing you a practical understanding of the subject.

• Example Lesson – Solution Sets of Homogeneous and Inhomogeneous Equations
• Example Lesson – Principal Component Analysis
• Example Quiz