Options Payoff & Strategy Recognition
Name the structure, find the breakevens, size the max profit and loss the options payoff round prop desks drill hardest.
The scenario
The options technical. The interviewer sketches positions and payoff shapes and expects you to name them instantly, then compute the breakevens and the max profit and loss without hesitation. Get the structure wrong and the rest unravels.
Where this shows up
Strategy recognition plus payoff/breakeven arithmetic is the backbone of options-trading technical rounds Akuna's Options 101 funnel and SIG's onsite are the canonical examples.
Firms such as Akuna, SIG, Optiver.
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The drill
Identify each structure and compute the figures. Premiums are per share; where a contract is involved it covers 100 shares. Numeric answers are graded to a small tolerance.
Sample question
Long a call and long a put at the same strike and expiry. What is this position?
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