Stock Exchange Trivia

1. When a market is generally going up in value it is known as a ____ market?

From Quiz Investing in Stocks and Options

Answer: Bull

Running full speed ahead...

From Quiz Stocks and bonds 101

Answer: Warren Buffett

Highly regarded as one of the most successful investors, Warren Buffett brought his fundamental investing philosophies to create the powerhouse Berkshire Hathaway.

From Quiz Stock Market Basics Part 2

Answer: Alternative Investment Market

AIM was launched in 1995 with the intention of allowing smaller companies to sell shares to the public but with a less rigid regulatory system than that normally required within the main stock market. The regulatory model is based on a comply-or-explain principle which allows companies which are listed on AIM to either comply with the relatively few rules, or explain why it has decided not to comply.

From Quiz Stock Market Basics Part 1

Answer: Wall Street

Wall Street is located in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The stock exchange formally opened in 1792 following the Buttonwood Agreement. Prior to this date traders and speculators would meet under a buttonwood tree which grew at the bottom of Wall Street.

From Quiz American Companies and their Stock Symbols

Answer: MMM

3M Company, with the symbol MMM, makes the famous Scotch brand tapes and adhesives, as well as the convenient Post-it notes. 3M also manufactures Thinsulate fabric, which is used in gloves, hats and other pieces of thermal clothing. The company headquarters are in St. Paul, Minnesota.

From Quiz The Stock Market Revealed (U.S.)

Answer: The Securities and Exchange Commission

The SEC requires all public companies to disclose their financial information to the public. This protects investors from any fraudulent acts and makes the information readily available to the public.

From Quiz Ticker Symbols in the U.S. Stock Market

Answer: INTC

Intel is a leading manufacturer of processor chips like the Intel Core II Duo® Processors and Intel Pentium 4® Processors.

From Quiz Kiss Your Broker Good-Bye

Answer: 30

The DJIA is a general barometer of market movement up or down. However, because it only includes 30 blue chip stocks, a broader sampling can be found in the Standard and Poor's 500 Index (S&P 500) or the Russell 2000 which includes smaller companies. The main value of these indices is in identifying trends.

From Quiz Hazard Warning

Answer: Tulips

The tulips were plants widely cultivated in Turkey. When the Flemish botanist Carolus Clusius, professor at Leiden, imported the first tulips to Holland, he gained wide esteem. Soon every rich and famous Dutch wanted to plant some tulips in his garden. Multi-coloured tulips were especially in demand (although later research showed that their bright colour nuances were caused by a disease that hampered reproduction). The Amsterdam stock exchange started dealing in tulip options. This financial instrument permits to pay a small amount of money (for instance 3% of the fixed price) for the right to acquire a certain amount of goods at a price fixed in advance, whereas the time of delivery is some time later - in the case of the tulip options, usually the moment of the harvest of the tulip bulbs. Prices took off immediately. One notorious example is the contract to pay 5,000 florins for a single tulip bulb, while a skilled worker gained on average 150 florins a year... Although people with common sense nowadays would see the hazard warning when a single tulip costs more than 30 years' wages, prices continued to rise - until February 3rd, 1637. Two months later the average price was less than 1% of that of February 3rd. I have found no examples of a similar inflation or depreciation in the case of light bulbs. Paintings of irises by Van Gogh have been sold at astronomical prices, though. And in the 1950s, rumour had it that some people tried to inflate the price of onion futures.

From Quiz Investing in Stocks and Options

Answer: Bear

Symbolizing a growling and grumbling attitude. However, there are still ways for investors to make money even when markets or certain stocks are going down.

From Quiz Stocks and bonds 101

Answer: Stock Price and Earnings

Stock price divided by earnings provides a snapshot of how "expensive" the current price is relative to the profitability of the company. This ratio is used for comparison purposes and is often relative to competitors and the general stock market. Property and equipment are on the balance sheet. Stock price and equity price are the same thing! Sales and earnings provide margin analysis.

From Quiz Stock Market Basics Part 2

Answer: In the belief that the price will fall

Short selling a stock is a tactical market ploy used by traders when they think the price will fall for any reason. It involves borrowing stock from someone (with the promise to give it back on a specific date), selling the stock immediately and then hoping to buy back on the market at a price less than the current market price. The "borrowed stock" is then given back to the owner with the difference being the profit generated. It can go spectacularly wrong if the price of the stock actually rises. The three wrong answers would generally be bad news for a short seller.

From Quiz American Companies and their Stock Symbols

Answer: YHOO

Yahoo, incorporated in 1995, has "the world's most visited web site", according to- you guessed it- its web site. The company offers email services, entertainment, news, maps and other services on its site. The stock is listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.

From Quiz The Stock Market Revealed (U.S.)

Answer: Insider trading

People working in many industries including law offices, banks, brokerages and financial printers often have access to information before it's shared with the general public. But as tempting as it may seem, most insider trading schemes result in large fines and jail sentences.

From Quiz The Wall Street Crash of 1929

Answer: No. It's a popular myth with little evidence to support it.

John Kenneth Galbraith actually researched suicide rates from that era. He found no spike after the crash. Although some suicides were surely spawned by the collapse in stock prices, don't bother searching the web for lurid pictures.

From Quiz Investing in Stocks and Options

Answer: Short Selling

If the price goes up the position/shares must be covered/bought back at a higher price.

From Quiz The Wall Street Crash of 1929

Answer: Herbert Hoover

Talk about bad timing! Poor Hoover had just taken the oath of office in March.

From Quiz Kiss Your Broker Good-Bye

Answer: About 10%

The market averages about 10% a year which means one year it's up 20%, the next year it could be down 5%, up 15%, etc. The key to successful investing is to buy good and hold on for the long term and that 10% figure (a good return) will work in your favor.

From Quiz Derivatives

Answer: Hedging

From Quiz Investing in Stocks and Options

Answer: Put options

A put option is a contractual agreement whereby the writer/originator of the "put" guarantees to buy the underlying stock issue at a certain strike price before the expiration date. The buyer of the put can either be seeking to protect his/her stock investment - or make a potentially large profit from a falling stock price.

From Quiz Stocks and bonds 101

Answer: Mister Softee

Mister Softee is represented by its ticker symbol MSFT.

From Quiz The Stock Market Revealed (U.S.)

Answer: EDGAR

All public documents must be filed with the SEC using the Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval system (EDGAR). Anyone can now access the SEC website at www.SEC.gov and retrieve all filings submitted by any public company.

From Quiz Derivatives

Answer: European

From Quiz Investing in Stocks and Options

Answer: Call option

A call option is a contractual agreement whereby the writer/originator of the "call" guarantees to sell the underlying stock issue at a certain strike price before the expiration date. The buyer of the call can make a potentially large profit if the underlying stock price rises.

From Quiz American Companies and their Stock Symbols

Answer: T

AT&T Corporation, whose New York Stock Symbol is just T, was acquired by SBC in 2005, but later that year changed its name back to AT&T Corp. In 1927, AT&T charged $75 for the first three minutes of a trans-Atlantic call, which was a lot of money back then (source: AT&T's web site). Another milestone occurred in 1968, when AT&T began the 911 emergency phone service.

From Quiz The Stock Market Revealed (U.S.)

Answer: A mutual fund

Mutual funds are the safest way for the average investor to invest in the stock market. Because professional portfolio managers are hired to manage and re-balance the fund's investments, it limits the investor's exposure to a market meltdown.

From Quiz The Wall Street Crash of 1929

Answer: 381

Here are some of the companies that made up the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1929: Chrysler, Sears, RCA, Woolworth, Bethlehem Steel, General Motors, International Harvester, Postum, Nash Motors, National Cash Register, Union Carbide, Westinghouse and Standard Oil (N.J.).

From Quiz Kiss Your Broker Good-Bye

Answer: There is no advantage

A load is an up-front fee you pay to the mutual fund. Invest $1000 in a fund with a 4.5% front-end load and you're out $45 before you even start. Numerous studies have shown that funds that DON'T charge a load (no-load funds) perform just as well as load funds so always go with a no-load fund. Also, read the fine print. Many funds impose back-end loads - fees you pay when you remove money.

From Quiz Derivatives

Answer: Chicago

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