The Standard & Poor’s Depositary Receipts (SPDRs) is an exchange-traded fund in the United States that is designed to track the S&P 500 stock market index. The current price of a share of SPDRs is $113. A trader has just bought call options on shares of SPDRs for a premium of $3 per share. The call options expire in five months and have an exercise price of $120 per share. On the expiration date, the trader will exercise the call options (ignore any transaction costs) if and only if the shares of SPDRs are trading:
below $120 per share.
Babove $120 per share.
Cabove $123 per share.
You own shares of a company that are currently trading at $30 a share. Your technical analysis of the shares indicates a support level of $27.50. That is, if the price of the shares is going down, it is more likely to stay above this level rather than fall below it. If the price does fall below this level, however, you believe that the price may continue to decline. You have no immediate intent to sell the shares but are concerned about the possibility of a huge loss if the share price declines below the support level. Which of the following types of orders could you place to most appropriately address your concern?
Short sell order.
BGood-till-cancelled stop sell order.
CGood-till-cancelled stop buy order.
One month after inception, the price return version and total return version of a single index (consisting of identical securities and weights) will be equal if:
market prices have not changed.
Bcapital gains are offset by capital losses.
Cthe securities do not pay dividends or interest.
Which of the following statements regarding fixed-income indices is most accurate?
Liquidity issues make it difficult for investors to easily replicate fixed-income indices.
BRebalancing and reconstitution are the only sources of turnover in fixed-income indices.
CFixed-income indices representing the same target market hold similar numbers of bonds.
Passive portfolio management.
BActive portfolio management based on technical analysis.
CActive portfolio management based on fundamental analysis.
A market is said to be informationally efficient if it features:
market prices that reflect all available information about the value of the securities traded.
Btimely and accurate information about current supply and demandconditions.
Cmany buyers and sellers that are willing to trade at prices above and belowthe prevailing market price.
Which of the following is least accurate regarding fixed-income indexes?
Replicating the return on a fixed-income security index is difficult forinvestors.
BThere is a great deal of heterogeneity in the composition of fixed-income security indexes.
CDue to the large universe of fixed-income security issues, data for fixed income securities are relatively easy to obtain.
FRM考试分为两个级别,一级考试共100道单选题(4选1),考试时间4小时;二级考试共80道单选题(4选1),考试时间4小时。FRM考试采用全英文考试,较长的考试时间、较难的考试内容,对考生的脑力和体力都形成了巨大的压力。因此,坚持不懈的练习是FRM备考过程中必不可少的学习步骤。