Junior Trader Interview Questions

Junior Trader

Interviewed at OSTC

4★

May 17, 2018

Do you enjoy trading?

Junior Trader

Interviewed at AKUNA CAPITAL

4★

Jan 27, 2015

You have 3000 apples, and 1 truck that can carry a maximum of 1000 apples. The truck also drops an apple for every mile it drives and the apple gets destroyed. Whats the maximum amount of apples you can take to a city 1000 miles away?

Junior Relative Value Arbitrage Trader

Interviewed at TransMarket Group

4.1★

May 5, 2015

You have a call option on a security worth 100 now that will either be worth 110 or 95 dollars at a future date. The strike of this option is 105. What is an estimated value of this call option?

Junior Quantitative Trader

Interviewed at Old Mission

4.2★

Jul 22, 2018

You have a bag of coins of which one half are real and the other half are fake. You need to pay for 1 1/2 hours of parking at a meter where one quarter gives you 15 minutes. Every time you put in a fake quarter the meter time is reset to 0. How many coins will you have to pull out of the bag ?

Junior Trader

Interviewed at TransMarket Group

4.1★

Oct 27, 2014

Can a zero coup bond go above par?

Junior Trader

Interviewed at Cobblestone Energy

4★

Oct 21, 2020

What does Cobblestone exactly do and in which market does it operate?

Junior Trader

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4★

Jan 12, 2012

If the chance of rain on Saturday is 70% and on Sunday is 60%, what is the chance of it raining this weekend?

Junior Trader

Interviewed at AKUNA CAPITAL

4★

Nov 16, 2015

Game 1 pays $20 if you flip heads and you flip the coin 4 times, game 2 pays $500 if you flip heads all 4 times. Which game do you pick?

Junior Trader

Interviewed at AKUNA CAPITAL

4★

Feb 24, 2015

If I give you 10 million dollars, and in 5 years you had to give me back 10 million dollars, how would you make the most money? What if i gave you only 3 days?

Junior Trader

Interviewed at TransMarket Group

4.1★

Feb 12, 2014

-If the radius of a sphere is expanding at a rate of 4 metres/second, and the starting radius is 0.25 metres, what is the volume of the sphere after 2 1/2 minutes? -if the mean of X=4 and the variance of X is 9, and the mean of Y=5 and the variance of Y is 16, what is the standard deviation of X + Y given a relationship of -3/8 (x to y)? - there are 3 faucets. Faucet #1 can fill a sink in 20 min, F#2 can fill a sink in 12 min, and F#3 can fill a sink in 5 min. If all 3 faucets are running at the same time, how long will it take for the sink to fill?