Chapter 4 Practice Questions
- 1. A customer who opens a margin account may give her broker the right to lend her margined securities to others or to the broker-dealer. This permission is granted or denied in a part of her margin agreement known as the:
- A. Hypothecation agreement
- B. Loan consent agreement
- C. Credit agreement
- D. Disclosure agreement
- 2. Semolina has a margin account with a long market value of $150,000 and equity of $60,000. The original purchase price of her securities, bought over a two-week period, was $180,000. Below what price will her stocks have to fall in value to trigger a margin call?
- A. $120,000
- B. $100,000
- C. $45,000
- D. $37,500
- 3. The term “debit register” in margin trading refers to a record of:
- A. The activities in a customer’s special memorandum account
- B. The money a customer borrows in his margin account
- C. The current market value of a customer’s borrowed securities
- D. Money that can be drawn from a special memorandum account
- 4. A restricted account is one in which the amount of money deposited in a margin account is:
- A. Less than 50% of its long market value
- B. Less than the minimum maintenance requirement
- C. Between the initial margin and minimum maintenance requirements
- D. Frozen because of a fail to deliver
- 5. Lenders of stock to short sellers have all of the following privileges except:
- A. Earn interest on the collateral in the customer’s margin account
- B. Receive a commission for the service they provide
- C. Have the right to stock dividends on the shorted stock
- D. Have the right to vote shares
- 6. Latoya opens a margin account and begins trading by buying 100 shares of XYZ at $35 per share. How much money must she deposit to satisfy her initial margin requirement?
- A. $3,500
- B. $1,750
- C. $