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Motivation: why the trader role? Technical: probability question about expected value. If a robot is on a table 20cm wide. His starting point is 3cm away from one of the edges. He moves 1 step at a time either 10 cm left or right with equal probability. After how many steps is he expected to fall? (Probably the wording and numbers are different but the idea of the question is just to calculate the expected value)
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Graduate Quantitative Trader

Interviewed at IMC Trading

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Sep 22, 2021

Motivation: why the trader role? Technical: probability question about expected value. If a robot is on a table 20cm wide. His starting point is 3cm away from one of the edges. He moves 1 step at a time either 10 cm left or right with equal probability. After how many steps is he expected to fall? (Probably the wording and numbers are different but the idea of the question is just to calculate the expected value)

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