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1. What is a commodity?
Company assets
Things used on a daily basis
2. The pillar principle you should always observe when investing is:
“don’t put all your eggs in one basket”
"do it fast and clean"
"always trust your instincts"
3. Which of the following is not Industrial Metals
Lead
Platinum
Aluminium
Copper
4. World dominant currency is:
HKD
JPY
GBP
USD
5. Two most influential investment theories are:
Efficient Market Hypothesis and Effective Asset Management Theory
Modern Portfolio Theory and Risk Evaluation Theory
Modern Portfolio Theory and the Efficient Market Hypothesis
6. Unsystematic risk
This is the type of risk that is not related to any external (exogenous) factors.
The base interest rate of central banks, which serves as a benchmark for all interest rates in the economy
The risk that is related to the decline in the movement of the whole market
7. Alternative investments are:
Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds, Money Markets
Hedge Funds, Real Estate, Mutual Funds, Money Markets
Real Estate, Commodities, Private Equity, Managed Futures
Hedge Funds, Real Estate, Commodities, Private Equity, Managed Futures
8. Traditional investments are:
Real Estate, Commodities, Private Equity, Managed Futures
Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds, Money Markets
Stocks, Bonds, Commodities, Private Equity
Stocks and Bonds
9. When companies go public, they issue shares of
Funds
Bonds
Stocks
10. The secondary market is
where securities are created
where investors trade previously-issued securities without the involvement of the issuing-companies
11. Receivables Turnover is equal to
Total Revenue/Accounts Receivable
Short-term assets – Short-term liabilities
Cash Flow from operations/Current Liabilities
12. Number of days of receivables is equal to
Total Revenue/Accounts Receivable
Accounts receivable / Average revenue
Total Revenue/Inventory
13. Net Profit Margin is equal to
Net profit/Total revenue
Net income/Total assets
Cash Flow from operations/Current Liabilities
14. Public companies are required to report their earnings
three times a year
once a year
every month
four times a year
15. ROA – Return on Assets is equal to
Net Income/Owner’s Equity
Total Revenue/Inventory
Net income/Total assets
16. The two most widely accepted accounting standards worldwide are
GAAP and ACCA
ACCA and MSAP
IFRS and MSAP
GAAP and IFRS
17. What is the trend between point 4 and 5
Uptrends
Sideways/Horizontal Trends
Downtrends
18. When traders become disillusioned about the prospect of their security price rising, they sell, a stage called
distribution
accumulation
19. Chart that represents only the closing prices over a set period of time is
Line chart
Point And Figure Chart
Bar chart
20. The chart that is made up of a series of vertical lines that represent each data point with high and low for the trading period, along with the closing price is
Line chart
Bar chart
Point And Figure Chart
21. If loss is 40% how much gain you need to recover?
42.9%
66.7%
25.0%
11.1%
22. Pattern that is considered the switching point between uptrends and downtrends is
Head and Shoulders Top
Double Top (Reversal)
Rising Wedge (Reversal)
Double Bottom Reversal
23. Pattern that signaling upcoming trend is
Cup and Handle
Rounding Bottom (Reversal)
Falling Wedge (Reversal)
24. If loss is 30% how much gain you need to recover?
66.7%
42.9%
25.0%
11.1%
25. What is the volume traded every day on Forex markets?
$4-5 million
$4-5 billion
$4-5 trillion
26. Point where you place an order at a set price in the market so the trading platform automatically gets you out at a specified price is
Run order
Block order
Stop order
27. When the body of candlestick is black, it means that the closing price was
higher than the opening price
lower than the opening price
28. We are measuring potential dilution by
Asset Turnover
Current Ratio
Shares Outstanding
29. When you construct your linear regression plan, the first step is to
Gathering relevant and reliable data
State a hypothesis
Relate your statistical findings to the hypothesis. Accept, reject or modify the null hypothesis
Transform the data into logarithmic form and test it for multicollinearity
30. What is not part of Candlesticks information matrix
Low
High
Average
Sell or Buy
31. We are able to measure productivity by
Current Ratio
Asset Turnover
Shares Outstanding
32. Which one is not true
The Belt Hold line is identified by the lack of a shadow on two ends.
The bearish black Belt Hold opens on its high and has no upper shadows.
The bullish white Belt Hold opens on its low and has no lower shadows.
33. The letter in contracts codes for January is
J
K
L
F
34. The letter in contracts codes for July is
J
L
K
M
35. Short call is
When you buy a call option
When you sell a call option
36. Long call is
When you buy a call option
When you sell a call option
37. The difference between two moving averages is measured by
Random walk index
Real trend index
Price oscillator
38. Оscillator that essentially puts the current closing price in context of highs and lows of a period of N days in order to determine whether a security has been overbought or oversold is called
Williams Percentage Range
Deviation behaviour index
Relative Momentum Index (RMI)
39. Strategy in which you buy one call and one put with the same expiration date and the same strike price is
Long put straddle
Long option straddle
Long straddle
40. Momentum indicator that attempts to gauge whether an asset is overbought or oversold is
Relative strength index (RSI)
Relative Momentum Index (RMI)
Price oscillator
41. Which one is not major anomalies observed in financial markets
Negative Autocorrelation
Double liquidity
Short-term return continuation
Reversals
42. When you have a winning position, until you realize your profit, you have a strong psychological discomfort, due to fear of losing it. This forces you to act too quickly.
FALSE
TRUE
43. "Expected return can be predicted, because it’s a function of the risk. "
TRUE
FALSE
44. Momentum traders are not sophisticated investors, they do not have the skills to interpret the fundamental information, so they are just technical traders without considering any fundamental information they just follow existing trends.
FALSE
TRUE
45. To help individual investors avoid their behavioral mistakes, thus help them improve their performance is the role of behavioral finance theory
FALSE
TRUE
46. How should we avoid being negatively affected by the anchoring bias?
When the market is approaching to a previous peak or the 52-week high we should double check our analysis.
When the price rises above the previous peak at the same time you will tell fundamental analysis by signal, you should do this analysis more carefully.
Ensure that you are not underreacting to the new information, because of your anchoring bias.
47. If you buy stocks, which now trade close to their 52-Week High, you will beat the market by 1% per month on the average.
FALSE
TRUE
48. Which one is not anomaly according to Behavioral Bias
The trading volume in financial markets is much higher than rational finance models predict.
Disagreement of opinion has been found to decrease the trading volume.
Overconfidence of investors is one of the reasons, why disagreement leads to excessive trading volume and volatility.
Trading volume is higher when the stock market is rising; that is when most investors are overconfident
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