Individuals That Continually Monitor the Financial Markets Seeking Mispriced Securities

question 57

Multiple Choice

Individuals that continually monitor the financial markets seeking mispriced securities:

• A)tend to make substantial profits on a daily basis.
• B)tend to make the markets more efficient.
• C)are never able to find a security that is temporarily mispriced.
• D)are always quite successful using only well-known public information as their basis of evaluation.
• E)are always quite successful using only historical price information as their basis of evaluation.

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