Efficient Market Hypothesis

For each of the following scenarios, discuss whether profit opportunities exist from trading in the stock of the firm under the conditions that (1) the market is not weak form efficient, (2) the market is weak form but not semistrong form efficient, (3) the market is semistrong form but not strong form efficient, and (4) the market is strong form efficient.

a. The stock price has risen steadily each day for the past 30 days.

b. The financial statements for a company were released three days ago, and you believe youve uncovered some anomalies in the companys inventory and cost control reporting techniques that are causing the firms true liquidity strength to be understated.

c. You observe that the senior management of a company has been buying a lot of the companys stock on the open market over the past week.