1. Apply What You've learned - Investing in Stocks and Bonds Scenario: You are 29 years old and willing to invest $1,750 every other month for 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 all company whose sales prices, profits, and share price are low when the economy does well. Its beta is -0.95 Happy Giraffe Elevator Company is the biggest firm in its industry. Its shares generally trade in the $100-125 per share price range, and it has over 100 milion shares outstanding. 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. Red Melon Fruit Company is a solid firm whose share price is temporarily below what it should be based on the company's sales, earnings, dividends. It pays a high dividend but currently exhibits a low P/E ratio. If you wanted to invest in a countercyclical stock company (based on index), you should invest in If you wanted to invest in a large-cap 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 value 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 ensure that you receive any unpaid, or skipped, dividend payments, then you should make sure that your preferred stock issue is 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 want to incur the lowest possible commissions and fees, then you should use If you wanted to place a buy order that requires your new shares to be purchased immediately at the prevailing market price, then you should ask for order. If you wanted to place a buy order that requires your new shares to be purchased at a given price and the order remains open until it is either executed or cancelled order. 1. Apply What You've learned - Investing in Stocks and Bonds Scenario: You are 29 years old and willing to invest $1,750 every other month for 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 all company whose sales prices, profits, and share price are low when the economy does well. Its beta is -0.95 Happy Giraffe Elevator Company is the biggest firm in its industry. Its shares generally trade in the $100-125 per share price range, and it has over 100 milion shares outstanding. 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. Red Melon Fruit Company is a solid firm whose share price is temporarily below what it should be based on the company's sales, earnings, dividends. It pays a high dividend but currently exhibits a low P/E ratio. If you wanted to invest in a countercyclical stock company (based on index), you should invest in If you wanted to invest in a large-cap 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 value 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 ensure that you receive any unpaid, or skipped, dividend payments, then you should make sure that your preferred stock issue is 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 want to incur the lowest possible commissions and fees, then you should use If you wanted to place a buy order that requires your new shares to be purchased immediately at the prevailing market price, then you should ask for order. If you wanted to place a buy order that requires your new shares to be purchased at a given price and the order remains open until it is either executed or cancelled order