Question

A customer called his registered representative to place a trade to buy 100 shares of ABC. The customer wants to put a limit on the order, but is unsure what would be an appropriate price. At the suggestion of the registered representative, the customer enters the order with a limit of $30. This trade was

Answer 1

Answer:

unsolicited trade

Explanation:

In this scenario, the trade that was made would be considered an unsolicited trade. This is mainly due to the customer having called the representative telling him to place the trade and buy the 100 shares of ABC stock. Therefore, this trade was ultimately the idea of the investor (customer) in this scenario and not the representative's idea. That would make this trade fall into the category of an unsolicited trade. If the idea was initially the representative's and he was the one to mention the trade to the client then it would have been a solicited trade, but this is not the case.