Trading track
Trading interview questions
Trading interviews test speed and composure. Mental arithmetic with no paper, probability puzzles where the obvious answer is wrong, and whether you can explain your risk when the position moves against you.
Any one track is free. No account, no card.
Coverage
What this track covers
Sell-side market making and prop risk-taking. Mental math, probability, market structure, risk.
- Mental maths
- Probability
- Market structure
- Products
- Risk
- Behavioural
Sample
Five real questions from this track
Straight from the 100 in the app. Each one comes with a model answer, the follow-ups an interviewer would ask next, and the trap most candidates walk into — those stay inside.
- Behavioural Tell me about the worst decision you have made with money or risk.
- Mental maths 17 × 24 = ?
- Market structure What is adverse selection, and why does it shape everything a liquidity provider does?
- Probability 1% of a population has a condition. A test is 99% accurate in both directions. Someone tests positive. What is the probability they have it?
- Products What is basis in futures, and what drives contango and backwardation?
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Pro opens all 7 for €10 a month — worth it the moment you are applying across more than one desk.
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Make Trading your free track
All 100 questions, 30 cases and 12 formula sheets, at no cost and with no time limit.