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3 years ago

How do margin trades magnify both the upside potential and the downside risk of an investment position?

Business

1 answer:

klio [65]3 years ago

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Answer and Explanation:

Margin trades work this way because they allow them to extend the amount of money invested regardless of whether the security's price drops or rises. In a more simplified way, we can state that the margin trade allows that even if the price of a security goes up or down, the invested money presents a percentage of gain or loss much bigger than the original value. This is because this money was deposited as a loan guarantee, allowing interest to run on it, increasing it.

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Answer:

The price went from 2.50 dollar per unit to 1.25

And quantity sold of first hand muffin increase from 500 to 1,600

Explanation:

First day:

We build the equation and solve considering:

a= first hand muffin sold at 2.5 dollar

b = left-over sold at 0.5 dollar

considering the shop made 2,000 muffin and the cost is 1 dollar per muffin:

quantities equation: a + b = 2,000

price equation: 2.5a + 0.5b = 2,000

2.5(2,000 - b) + 0.5b = 2,000

5,000 - 2.5b + 0.5b = 2,000

3,000/2 = b = 1,500

a = 2,000 - b = 2,000 - 1,500 = 500

It sale 500 dollar of muffin at 2.5 and 1,500 at 0.5 getting a total of 2,000 revenue to cover the cost.

Second day:

There is a decrease in price to 1.25 per muffin

This generates a profit of 400 dollar thus:

(sales price less cost) x quantity = profit

(1.25 - 1) x a = 400

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3 years ago

A. How much would you pay for a Treasury bill that matures in 182 days and pays $10,000 if you require a 1.8% discount rate?

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Consider a risky portfolio. The end-of-year cash flow derived from the portfolio will be either $40,000 or $135,000, with equal

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a. $76,754

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b. 14%

c. $73,529

Explanation:

a. The computation of portfolio is given below:-

Risk Premium

= Required return - Risk free rate

= 10% + 4%

= 14%

Expected value of the payoff

= $40,000 × 1 ÷ 2 + $135,000 × 1 ÷ 2

= $87,500

Value of portfolio = $87,500 ÷ (1 + 14%)

= $76,754.39

b. The calculation of expected rate of return on the portfolio is shown below:-

= ($87,500 - $76,754.39) ÷ $76,754.39

= 14%

c. The calculation of risk premium is shown below:-

Risk premium = Required return - Risk free rate

Required return = 15%+4% = 19%

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= $40,000 × 1 ÷ 2 + $135,000 × 1 ÷ 2

=$87500

Value of portfolio

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3 years ago

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Answer:

Straight line:

2014 $ 65,250

2015 $ 87,000

2016 $ 87,000

2017 $ 21,750

units-of-output method:

2014 $ 108,750

2015 $ 79,750

2016 $ 58,000

2017 $ 14,500

dobule declining method

2014 135,000

2015 45,000

2016 15,000

2017 9,000

Explanation:

Straight line:

(cost - salvage value) / useful life

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First year: from April 1st to December 31th

87,000 x 9/12 = 65,250

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fourth year: from Jan 1st to March 31th:

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units-of-output method:

(cost - salvage value) / unit of output

261,000 / 18,000 = 14.5 per hour

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5,500x 14.5 = 79,750

4,000x 14.5 = 58,000

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we multiply by twice the rate of of straight line:

1/3 x 2 = 2/3 we depreciate this amount of the carrying vbalue per year

Last year we adjust to obtain the residual value

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