financial quiz

1. Demat is the acronym for ___________

2. A faster way of buying / selling the same number of shares that you earlier had sold / bought, on the same day, in the same exchange, at the market value is known as _______

3. If you’ve bought shares in an intraday mode, what should you do before the intraday time ends?

4. To buy / sell shares, you should have a ________ account

5. What do IPO and FPO mean?

6. A growing stock market is referred to as a _______ market and a falling stock market is called as a _______ market

7. What is the name of the two share depositories in India?

8. What is the name for selling shares in an intraday mode, even though you don’t have the same shares in your demat account?

9. The shares you buy are credited to your demat account, usually, in how many days?

10. What does it mean if a company announces bonus shares in the ratio of 5:1?

11. What is the name of the organization that regulates the securities markets in India?

12. Stock split increases a company’s equity capital: TRUE or FALSE?

13. Which of the following investments has the highest liquidity: shares, fixed deposit, closed-end mutual funds?

14. What is the income called as that you receive from a company that it may distribute to its shareholders from its profits each year?

15. Stock market investments are ideal for what time horizon: long-term or short-term?

16. What is the short form of BSE Sensitive Index?

17. If an investor can invest Rs. 1.0 lac or less in an IPO, that investor is categorized as what?

18. You’re investing at _________ price, if you invest in an IPO at the highest price of the price band

19. Technical investment analysis is suitable for what type of investors?

20. What are the names of the two stock market indices in India?

21. If the price earnings ratio (P/E) of a company is high, it means you can recover the investment in the shares of that company in a lesser time: TRUE or FALSE?

22. Converting shares in demat mode back to physical mode is called as _______

23. EPS is the acronym for _____________

24. The statement, with reference to investing in shares, “Don’t put all the eggs in one basket,” means invest in different companies rather than in one company: TRUE or FALSE?

25. What is the name of the order that you place to buy a share at a specific price you specify?

Answers to Stock market quiz:

1. Dematerialization

2. Square-off

3. Sell or take delivery

4. Demat

5. Initial Public Offer (IPO) and Follow-on Public Offer (FPO)

6. Bull and Bear

7. NSDL (National Securities Depository Limited) and CSDL (Central Securities Depository Limited)

8. Short-sell

9. T (Transaction day) + 2 days

10. One bonus share for every five shares held

11. SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India)

12. FALSE

13. Shares

14. Dividend

15. Long-term

16. SENSEX

17. Retail investor

18. Cut-off

19. Short-term

20. NIFTY and SENSEX

21. FALSE

22. Rematerialization

23. Earnings Per Share

24. TRUE

25. Limit order