You believe you have found a trading strategy that could make significant profits. It requires looking at analyst forecasts and purchasing stock where there has been an upgrade in the recommendation and selling shares where there has been a downgrade in the recommendation. a. Describe which form the Efficient Market Hypothesis will be viola ed if you are able to make significant profits from your trading strategy in the future. b. List three factors that you may be overlooking in assessing the profitability of your trading strategy.

1. Which form of market efficiency is the best among weak, semi strong and strong? 2. Is stock market efficient? Give logic in favour of your answer

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Step by step explaination (use attached diagram)   This question relates to Diagram 6 from the diagrams, which shows the probability distributions of returns for Shares N, P and Q. In which share would a risk-averse investor be most likely to invest? Select one: a. Share N b. Share P c. Share Q d. We need more information about the investor's risk tolerance to determine which share the investor would prefer.

You buy a stock from the capital market. If the capital market is semi-strong efficient, which of the following statements is NOT correct? a. You cannot earn any abnormal returns above the required return by trading on public information. b. Past stock prices can be used to predict future stock prices. c. The technical analysis of publicly available information will not lead to any abnormal returns. d. The stock is fairly priced. e. Stock prices reflect all publicly available information.

Please answer the following questions, and justify your opinion by providing peer-reviewed support to your arguments: Compare and contrast the risk versus expected rate of return tradeoff, the security market line, and determination of beta on this basis. Include explanation of all the constituents, namely security market line, risk measure, expected rate of return, risk-free rate of return, and market rate of return. Include hypothetical examples for better clarity

(a)Define short sales and discuss its merits. (b) Explains the significance of ethics in the investment and trading world. (c) Discuss the Differences among types of investors. (d) Which risks may be diversified and how?

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1) Please indicate whether the following statements are true or false. In case of a false statement, briefly specify why the statement is false. 1. A real asset is different from a financial asset because a real asset must take a physical form. 2. In the financial market, an investor buys financial securities from dealers at the ask price and sells financial securities to dealers at the bid price. 3. Mankowitz portfolio theory assumes average investors have a utility function as an increasing and concave function of future portfolio return. 4. According to CAPM, all well-diversified portfolios on the capital market line have the same Sharpe ratio. 5. The Markowitz portfolio theory assumes that investors hold homogenous expectations about risk and returns of financial securities.

Answer whether each of the following statements is correct and explain your argument. \ (a) According to CAPM, the expected return of a risky asset is larger than the risk free rate. (b) According to CAPM, the expected return of a risky asset increases with its variance. (c) According to the separation property, the optimal risky portfolio for an investor dependson the investor’s personal preference. (d) A less risk-averse investor has a steeper indifference curve for the utility function.