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Stocks

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1 Billion 250 Million 5 Billion

For a Company to be considered large its market cap must be greater than -

Common Stock Holders Preferred Stock Holders Senior Bond Holders Convertible Debt Holders

If a company goes bankrupt who has first call on assets -

NYSE, NASDAQ, CBOT, NYMEX NYSE, NASDAQ, ARCA, CBSX NYSE, NASDAQ, LIFFE, JANUS

4 Potential Exchange Routes for stocks are

Rises Falls No Change

If a company is acquired the share price rises usually to the offer, the buyers stock usually -

Fixed Income

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True False

A bond trading at a premium will yield less than the coupon -

Premium Discount Consol Par Strips

Treasuries are what type of bonds?

Long term rates are higher than short term rates Long term rates are the same as short term rates Long term rates are lower than short term rates

Inverted Yield Curves Means that -

30 Year Treasury Bonds Libor 3 Month Treasury Bills 3 month Libor 1 Month Treasury Bills 1 month Libor

The TED spread is:

FX

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Respond directly

What countries ISO code is this SGD?

Bullish Bearish

If a country (i.e. the US) announces a QE package is ____ for the currency

Canada United Kingdom Europe Switzerland

Which country of these listed intervenes the most:

Cross Pair Arb Statistical Arb Value Arb Triangular Arb

To ensure that a cross rate (EUR/JPY) is equal to the (EUR/USD * USD/JPY) which type of arbitrage is used

Futures/Commodities

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Hard Soft Paper Pen

Bond and Equity Futures Contracts are considered/called:

Deliverable Cash Settled

Is the Gold (/GC) contract deliverable or cash settled?

True False

Floor trading does more volume than Globex at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange -

Buy and Sell two different indexes Buy the index and sell the individual stocks (and vice versa) Buy and Sell stocks within an index

Equity Index Arbitrage is when you -

Derivatives/Options

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Naked Options Covered Call Buying Strangles

A popular retail options strategy is -

Call Put Straddle Vertical Spread

This picture above is the payoff for a:

Buyer Seller

AIG during the financial crisis was a major ____ of protection via Credit Default Swaps

A Corporate Derivative Obligation A Credit Deal Origination A Collateralized Debt Obligation

A CDO is:

Technical Questions

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Support Resistance Inflection

Above is a:

Placing Limit Orders Placing Market Orders Sweeping the Book

If you are adding liquidity to the order book you are -

Buy a pullback in a strong stock Buy a weak stock Buy a stock in front of its own support level 1 and 3 Buy any stock

If the equity market is at a support level you should

Pay the offer immediately and get long Bid for stock in front of the big bidder Sell the offer and hope to get short Hit the bid and get short immediately

A stock is in a downtrend (weak stock) I see a big bid in the Level II though its not near a support level I should -

What options strategy is this?

Final Question

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