Training // Execution Loop

Interview Prep // Dashboard

Treat prep like a system, not a mood. This board compresses a 12-week sprint into daily reps, weekly focus areas, and role-specific calibration for trader, researcher, and developer lanes.

12-Week Acceleration Plan

Current Phase: Systems

Cycle focus // August–October 2026

The best version of this plan is sustainable, not heroic. Daily reps for speed, weekly reps for depth, and one honest project or memo so you are not relying on puzzle performance alone.

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Prep week // 1 / 12 Global readiness // 0%
Month 1

Fundamentals

Probability, mental math, Python cleanup, and the books that create a usable baseline fast.

Month 2

Systems

Microstructure, order books, options framing, and technical reps that mirror actual interview conversation.

Month 3

Sharpen & Apply

Mock interviews, application timing, and turning your best current lane into a coherent pitch.

02 // RECENT_TOPICS

Probability Brainteasers 0%

Start with Bayes, expectation, and clean case splits.

Options Greeks 0%

Keep this grounded in delta, gamma, and intuition over memorization.

C++ STL Containers 0%

Track runtime tradeoffs, iteration patterns, and debugging surface.

Market Making Fundamentals 0%

Measure spread capture, inventory skew, and micro-price intuition.

04// WEEKLY_SPRINTS

Month 1 // Foundation

Weeks 1-4

  • Memorize squares, cubes, common fractions, and percent-change shortcuts.
  • Rebuild probability basics: conditional probability, EV, counting, and Bayes.
  • Set up a clean Python notebook workflow and touch real market data quickly.
  • Practice saying every solution out loud instead of optimizing for silent speed.

Month 2 // Systems

Weeks 5-8

  • Study bid-ask spread logic, inventory risk, and order-book shape.
  • Work coding reps that force you to reason about runtime, memory, and debugging.
  • Review options intuition, model checks, and microstructure language.
  • Start role-specific mock sessions for your primary lane, not every lane equally.

Month 3 // Finish

Weeks 9-12

  • Run full mocks with timing pressure and feedback on communication quality.
  • Tighten resume bullets so each one points to a deeper technical conversation.
  • Use the firm database to convert generic prep into lane-specific interview surfaces.
  • Apply while iterating. Waiting for "fully ready" usually means waiting too long.

05// TRACK_CALIBRATION

Trader lane

Bias toward mental math, EV, market making, and the ability to stay verbal while you think. Good practice is short, daily, and pressure-tolerant.

Research lane

Bias toward statistics, experiments, clean assumptions, and one notebook or memo that survives honest scrutiny when someone pushes on noise and overfitting.

Developer lane

Bias toward systems explanations, runtime tradeoffs, and code that feels built instead of only solved. Interviews often reward calm debugging more than speed alone.

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