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Securities Investor Protection Corporation

Investor Survival Quiz

Brought to you by the Securities Investor Protection Corporation

and the National Association of Investors Corporation

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1. By regulation, your brokerage firm may issue a margin call requiring you to deposit additional funds or stocks when the equity in your margin account falls below what level? (READ LIST)





2. Let's assume that you buy a stock for $30 a share. It has a history of rapid up and down movements. You want to be sure to sell the stock if it reaches $40 a share -- a $10 profit. However, you return from a two-week vacation to find that the stock traded as high as $48 and is now down to just $25 a share. What would have been the EASIEST way to get a $10 a share profit -- rather than losing $5 a share? (READ AND ROTATE. RECORD ONE ANSWER)





3. A company in which you hold stock files for Chapter 11. What does that mean? (READ AND ROTATE. RECORD ONE ANSWER)





4. If you suspect that there is a problem with the way your brokerage firm or stockbroker is handling your account, you should do which of the following things FIRST in order to protect your interests? (READ AND ROTATE. RECORD ONE ANSWER)





5. Which of the following organizations insures you against losing money in the stock market or as the result of investment fraud? (READ AND ROTATE. RECORD ONE ANSWER)






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