🧠 Stock Quizzes

Sharpen your instincts on the situations that actually trip up investors, one short question at a time.

1. Q1 Order Execution You place a market order to buy 500 shares of a low-volume small-cap stock currently priced at $10. What's the biggest risk you should worry about? ★★☆☆☆
2. Q2 Candlestick Charts A Hammer candle — small body, long lower wick — appears at the end of a downtrend. What's the correct way to interpret it? ★★☆☆☆
3. Q3 Financial Statements Semiconductor company A trades at 8x P/E, growth-tech company B trades at 40x P/E. What's the key thing to watch when comparing them? ★★★☆☆
4. Q4 Risk Management Account size $10,000, risk limit 1% ($100) per trade, entry $50, stop $47 (a $3 loss per share). What's the maximum number of shares you can buy? ★★★☆☆
5. Q5 Trading Strategy What's the biggest weakness of a moving-average crossover strategy when the market is stuck in a sideways range? ★★★☆☆
6. Q6 Trading Strategy A stock in a strong downtrend breaks below its lower Bollinger Band. What's the risk of mechanically buying it as a mean-reversion trade? ★★★☆☆
7. Q7 Money Management Strategy A wins 70% of the time (+1R on wins, -2R on losses); Strategy B wins 40% of the time (+3R on wins, -1R on losses). Which has the higher expectancy? ★★★★☆
8. Q8 Trading Strategy Price pokes slightly above resistance on low volume, then immediately falls back inside the range. What is this called, and how should you respond? ★★★☆☆