1. Apply What You've Learned - Investing in Stocks and Bonds Scenario: You are 30 years old and willing to invest $2,000 every other month the next 15 years. You prefer a conservative-to-moderate investment strategy and have a risk-averse to risk-neutral tolerance for risk. Your highest priority in your investment strategy is preparing you and any family that you might have in the future for your retirement. You also regularly set aside money into savings and CDs to pay for vacations or similar large-ticket items. You've assembled a table of information and company descriptions for some new stocks and bonds that you are thinking about adding to your investment portfolio. Currently, your portfolio consists of 20 blue-chip stocks, and you're thinking about increasing your diversification by adding some different types of stocks. The following are descriptions of potential firms to be added to your portfolio: Blue Llama Petroleum Company is an oil company whose sales prices, profits, and share price are low when the economy does well. Its beta is -0.95. Green Fish Semiconductor Company is a large diversified provider of internet, network, and wireless services. It will be the first firm to commercialize an underwater wifi system. Napoleon Nanotech Company has existed for four years and is still a high-risk investment. It has had good years and not-so-good years, and Napoleon's stock currently trades for $0.73 per share. Lumbering Ox Truckmakers has invented a truly new product that may revolutionize its industry. Lumbering Ox's share price is rising but if the company can't get its essential inventory and critical components or if its marketing plan isn't successful then its sales and profits will decrease significantly and the company could fail. The result is fluctuating P/E ratio and a beta of 2.30. If you wanted to invest in a countercyclical stock company (based on index), you should invest in If you wanted to invest in a tech stock company, you should invest in If you wanted to invest in a penny stock company, you should invest in If you wanted to invest in a speculative stock company (based on industry), you should invest in Now, think about the available attributes of common and preferred stock issues and bond issues, and answer the following questions. If you want to invest in a security that offers the opportunity for the payment of fluctuating and potentially extraordinary cash payments every quarter, then you should consider investing in If you want to invest in a security that allows you to participate in the selection of a company's management team, including its board of directors, then you should invest in If you want to be able to purchase additional shares before new shares are offered to the public, then you should ensure that common shares have a Assume that you've selected the investments that you want to add to your portfolio. Now you must consider who to contact to make the purchases and the types of orders to place. If you wanted to discuss and verify your ideas with a real person (broker) and review firm-provided research reports, then you should use If you wanted to place a buy order that requires your new shares to be purchased at the best possible price that does not exceed a specified price, then you should ask for a order. If you wanted to place a buy order that requires your new shares to be purchased at the current prevailing price with no other limits or special instructions then you should ask for order
