Hi everyone!

I'm currently considering a career as an options trader at a trading firm. I passed the tests and got a phone interview which went well but the interviewer asked me a question that I think requires some thought: "Do you really know the specifics of options trading?"

I know what options are, how to price them and I'm aware of the different trading strategies involved with options trading but I realize that I don't really know what a day in the life of an options trader is like... which forced me to dodge the question the interviewer asked me :whistling

Could you enlighten me on what an options trader has to do (analyzing options prices, establishing trading strategies...) knowing that I applied to a prop-firm that is a market-maker?

Also, that last sentence brings me to ask another question: how can a trading firm be proprietary and market-maker at the same time knowing that a prop-firm usually involves high risk trading and market-maker is supposed to be the opposite?

Thanks a lot :cheesy: