1.
What is the most accurate statement about portfolio diversification?
2.
After a sharp upward price move, a short downward-sloping consolidation that resembles a small parallel channel is often called what?
3.
A 50-day simple moving average crosses from below to above a 200-day simple moving average. What is this commonly called?
4.
Price makes a lower swing low while RSI makes a higher swing low. What is this commonly called?
5.
A company reports annual net profit of ₹15 crore and average shareholder equity of ₹100 crore. What is its approximate return on equity?
6.
A buy limit order is placed at ₹150. Ignoring price-band and other constraints, what does that limit normally specify?
7.
A share trades at ₹240 and its earnings per share are ₹12. What is its price-to-earnings ratio?
8.
If a stock trades above resistance for only a few minutes and then closes below that level, what is the most reasonable conclusion?
9.
A hypothetical long trade has entry ₹100, stop-loss ₹96, and target ₹108. Ignoring costs and slippage, what is the potential reward-to-risk ratio?
10.
For the classic floor-trader pivot formula P = (High + Low + Close) / 3, what is P when High = 110, Low = 100 and Close = 105?
11.
In a textbook double-bottom formation, which event commonly confirms the bullish breakout?
12.
What is the key distinction between a company’s IPO and ordinary secondary-market trading in its existing shares?
13.
Which description most closely matches a falling wedge?
14.
A stock trades at ₹250 and pays annual cash dividends totalling ₹5 per share. What is its trailing dividend yield, based on those figures?
15.
Which quantity does Average True Range (ATR) chiefly measure?
16.
Which statement about a market order is most accurate?
17.
A company has interest-bearing debt of ₹50 crore and shareholder equity of ₹100 crore. What is its debt-to-equity ratio on that definition?
18.
If the rupee depreciates against the US dollar, and the dollar price of an imported commodity stays unchanged, what happens to its rupee cost before other charges?
19.
After an advance, a candle forms a long upper shadow and a small real body near a resistance zone. What does this most directly suggest?
20.
Which statement best describes the Nifty 50 index?
21.
Using the conventional RSI interpretation, an RSI reading of 75 is normally described as being in which zone?
22.
A company earns ₹120 crore net profit attributable to ordinary shareholders and has 30 crore weighted-average ordinary shares. What is basic EPS, assuming no preference dividends?
23.
In the Indian monetary policy framework, the policy repo rate most directly refers to what?
24.
An ADX reading above about 25 is commonly interpreted as what?
25.
If consumer prices rise faster than a person’s nominal income over a period, what generally happens to that income’s purchasing power?
26.
What does SEBI stand for?
27.
Compared with a simple moving average of the same period, an exponential moving average generally does what?
28.
What best describes a false upside breakout?
29.
An index-tracking equity ETF is generally designed to do what?
30.
In a textbook bullish engulfing pattern, how does the second candle’s real body relate to the first candle’s real body?
31.
What is the usual geometric structure of an ascending triangle?
32.
A firm has current assets of ₹300 crore and current liabilities of ₹150 crore. What is its current ratio?
33.
In the textbook head-and-shoulders topping pattern, what event is often used as bearish confirmation?
34.
Price continues rising while trading volume consistently contracts. What is the most cautious technical interpretation?
35.
After price breaks convincingly above a well-tested resistance level, a successful retest may cause that old level to act as what?
36.
A doji candlestick is primarily identified by which feature?
37.
For an Indian investor evaluating gold quoted globally in US dollars, which combination can materially affect the local rupee price?
38.
All else equal, what usually happens to the market price of an existing fixed-rate bond when market yields rise?
39.
What is a sensible use of multiple-timeframe analysis?
40.
Why might an analyst examine cash flow from operations alongside reported accounting profit?
41.
A price breakout above resistance accompanied by notably higher-than-usual volume is commonly interpreted as what?
42.
If crude-oil prices rise sharply while an airline cannot increase its fares, what is the most direct likely pressure on that airline?
43.
What does a noticeable widening of Bollinger Bands most directly indicate?
44.
Which sequence most closely characterises a rising price trend?
45.
If the current market price is above the session’s VWAP, what is directly true?
46.
Why does a stop-loss order not guarantee that the actual exit price will equal the stop price?
47.
A trader has ₹1,00,000 capital and sets a planned loss limit of 1% of capital per trade. Entry-to-stop distance is ₹5 per share. Ignoring costs and gaps, what position size meets that plan?
48.
When the MACD line crosses above its signal line, what is the usual interpretation?
49.
Which of the following is a widely watched Fibonacci retracement ratio in technical analysis?
50.
Price makes a higher swing high while RSI forms a lower swing high. What is the common interpretation?
