Curriculum

Quant interview curriculum

Structured preparation for quant trading and research interviews: probability, combinatorics, market making, fast numerics, statistics, and research mathematics.

Each chapter builds toward applied interview-style problems and a cumulative checkpoint.

Quant Trading + Quant Research6 shared chapters
Quant Research2 additional chapters
Lecture coverage112h total

Paths

Shared core

Quant Trading

Probability, combinatorics, market making, Fermi estimation, and fast numerical reasoning.

Research add-on

Quant Research

Shared core plus statistics, linear algebra, optimization, and machine learning.

Separate path

Quant Development

Under construction.

Chapters

Quant Trading + Quant Research

The shared core for trading and research interviews.

01
Coins

Foundational coin-flip reasoning: waiting problems, Bayesian updates, urn transfers, and sequential betting games.

9 subchapters · 20h lectures

02
Dice

Dice foundations, fixed-roll distributions, waiting-time problems, coupon collectors, comparisons, and betting-game variants on discrete outcomes.

10 subchapters · 20h lectures

03
Cards

Deck structure, exact-match patterns, poker-style counting, expected counts, and betting-game reasoning on card spaces.

10 subchapters · 20h lectures

04
Circles

Geometry-probability on circles: random points, chords, arcs, coverage, and disk areas.

5 subchapters · 5h lectures

05
Grids

Grid combinatorics, path counting, barriers, parity, and lattice random walks.

5 subchapters · 5h lectures

06
Market Making & Fermi

Market making strategies, hedging games, an interactive simulation, and Fermi estimation techniques.

7 subchapters · 2h lectures

Quant Research

Additional mathematical and statistical depth for research-heavy roles.

07
Statistics

Probability, inference, estimation, OLS, MLE, hypothesis testing, and MCMC simulation.

16 subchapters · 20h lectures

08
Linear Algebra

Vectors, matrices, projections, spectral analysis, SVD, OLS, and numerical methods for quant research.

14 subchapters · 20h lectures

Quant Development

Under construction.

Quant Development is under construction.

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