Trading Associate Interview Questions

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The assessment centre involved a group decision making task, an individual task and a 1 to 1 interview. The individual and the group task involved reviewing data that you were supplied and coming to a decision based on the facts given.
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Trading Graduate Scheme

Interviewed at Morrisons

3.2
Jul 27, 2016

The assessment centre involved a group decision making task, an individual task and a 1 to 1 interview. The individual and the group task involved reviewing data that you were supplied and coming to a decision based on the facts given.

Questions during the first-round interview: - Why Scalable Capital? - Why Quant Trading (Market Making)? - What happened in the markets? - Which stock would you go long and which would you go short at the moment and why? - On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your programming proficiency with Python? - Imagine you are short on a stock and you have a low cash balance. Which 3 possibilities do you have in order to delta-hedge your position? - What are highly liquid securities you can trade in the markets?
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Internship Quantitative Trading (Market Making)

Interviewed at Scalable Capital

3.7
Sep 7, 2025

Questions during the first-round interview: - Why Scalable Capital? - Why Quant Trading (Market Making)? - What happened in the markets? - Which stock would you go long and which would you go short at the moment and why? - On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your programming proficiency with Python? - Imagine you are short on a stock and you have a low cash balance. Which 3 possibilities do you have in order to delta-hedge your position? - What are highly liquid securities you can trade in the markets?

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