1. There are at least two Chinese renminbi ETF's. CYB and CNY. How do these two exchange-traded funds differ?
2. What is the difference between VXX and UVXY? If you are an airline company, hedging against the revenue loss that would be associated with a one-week suspension of all US-based flights, which would you use (or both?), and describe the trade and give a brief justification.
3. Institutional portfolios can take advantage of what is called "portfolio margining" under the rules of the CBOE and other options exchanges. What IS portfolio margining? Choose only one answer.
4. What actually happened in the French election in April? Did the bond futures we used go up or down, and why?
5. Explain what the person or group named Mr 50 cents could have been trying to do. You need to go deeper than the article, fill in the blanks left by the article....by "blanks," I mean things unsaid. [recall that video of a group that was buting a huge number of options each week or two at around 50 cents per contract (i.e., $0.50 times the usual multiplier of 100).