1. The risk of an individual stock is measured by:
1. its standard deviation.
2. its beta
3. earnings per share
4. the P/E ratio
5. none of the above
2. Consider an investment opportunity set formed with two securities that are perfectly negatively correlated. If the securities had a correlation of -1, what would be the risk of the portfolio?
1. greater than zero.
2. equal to zero.
3. equal to the sum of the securities' standard deviations.
4. equal to -1.
5. none of the above.
3. When the market price breaks through (moves above) a moving average line from below, this is normally taken as a __________ signal
1. bullish signal
2. bearish signal
3. bullish or bearish, depending on the relative strength of the market
4. none of the above
5. answer 1 and answer c only