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A quant prices what the market has not. You work through the probability and code the models rest on, then the option pricing theory that turns both into a tradable number.

Quant careers are found across firms like

Optiver
Quantbox
Jane Street
Citadel Securities
D.E. Shaw

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Quantitative Methods, Financial Data & Programming
Stochastic Calculus & Derivative Pricing Theory

Practise the questions firms actually asked

100 real Quant interview questions from 15 firms, each with a model answer and the mistakes to avoid.

Asked at Old Mission Capital, Tower Research Capital and 13 more firms

Practise interview questions

Crack the puzzles interviewers love

100 Quant brainteasers, from probability to mental maths. Try each one first, then read the worked solution.

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12 topics
30 hard ones

Solve the puzzles

Work the cases like a real round

100 Quant case studies: a business, its numbers and a task. Work it on paper, then open the solution one step at a time.

43 traced to firms
11 topics
30 hard ones

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Case 001Core

A dataset of one-minute order-flow imbalance against next-minute futures returns gives a slope of 0.8 bps per unit, a t-statistic of 12 and an R-squared of 1.5%, with a 3 bp spread. Is the signal tradeable?

1What do the t-statistic and the R-squared each tell you?
2Does the predicted move beat the cost of crossing the spread?
3If you cannot take on it, what is it worth?

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Quantitative Methods, Financial Data & Programming

Stochastic Calculus & Derivative Pricing Theory

Practise the questions firms actually asked

Crack the puzzles interviewers love

Work the cases like a real round

Duration and What It Does Not Tell You

Bond Pricing and Yield Mechanics

Value at Risk and What It Hides

Common Size and Trend Analysis

Reading a Cash Flow Statement

Ratio Analysis That Says Something

Building a Working Capital Schedule

Backtesting a Strategy

Hypothesis Testing

Cleaning Financial Data

Regression for Finance

Retrieval and Grounding for Finance

Hedging a Real Exposure

The Greeks, Practically

Futures, the Basis and What Moves It

Reading an Option Payoff

Rebalancing: When, Why and What It Costs

Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation

Measuring Risk in a Portfolio

Writing an Investment Thesis

Reading an Annual Report Fast

Reading a Sector Before a Company

Spotting Quality of Earnings Red Flags

Short Selling Mechanics

Long Short Mechanics

Fund Waterfalls and Carry

The LBO in Structure

Analysing an Issuer's Credit

Tax Aware Portfolio Decisions

Building a Client Risk Profile

Goal Based Planning Arithmetic

Precedent Transactions and Why They Differ

Reading a Term Sheet Structurally

Building a Comparable Companies Table

Credit Exposure and How It Is Reduced

Sizing a Market

Reading a Term Sheet as a Founder

How a Venture Round Actually Works

Document Extraction in Finance

Comparing Funds Without Being Fooled

How a NAV Is Struck and Which Day You Get

Reading a Fund Factsheet Properly

Building a Discounted Cash Flow

Building a Revenue Forecast From Drivers

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