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Expected Trades Until 5th Win

Medium · Probability & Statistics · Quant Trader interview question · probability, expected-value, negative-binomial, trading-strategy

A quantitative trader employs a new trading strategy. Backtesting reveals that the strategy wins each independent trade with a probability of $p = 0.3$. What is the expected number of trades the trader must execute until achieving their 5th winning trade?