Market making
IMC Trading interview guide
Reported to open with a timed numerical assessment – fast arithmetic and number sequences – before interviews on probability and markets and a trading game.
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How the process usually runs
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Online numerical test
Timed arithmetic and sequence questions, where pace matters as much as accuracy.
Practise: Number sequences
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Trading game
A simulated market where you quote and trade, judged on edge and risk.
Practise: Market simulator
What to revise
Weighted most heavily in reports: arithmetic speed, number sequences, market making. The topics below are where the 207 questions in the bank reported at IMC Trading come from.
Questions reported at IMC Trading
- Compute 48 × 52 in your head.Free solution
- Two numbers sit just below a hundred. Compute 97 × 96.Free solution
- You are asked to make a market on the sum of two fair six-sided dice.Free solution
- You are flat and showing 99 at 101.Free solution
- An index rises 10% then falls 10%.Free solution
- An index is at 4,000, rates are 5% and the dividend yield is 2%, both…Free solution
- You are long a $95 call. The stock settles at $103. What is the payoff, ignoring premium?Free solution
- A stock is at $100 and in one year moves to either $120 or $80.Free solution
- What is the sign of gamma on a long put?Free solution
- A name has 32% annualised volatility.Free solution
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