MBA Student Research

Investor Profile Section:

Gender
Male
Female

Marital Status:
Married
Common Law
Divorced
Single

Age?
20 - 29 years
30 - 39 years
40 - 49 years
50 - 59 years
60 - 69 years
greater than 70

Highest formal education (completed):

High School
College
University

Highest Post Nominal Letters conferred:

Certificate
Diploma
Bachelors
Masters
PhD

Income (less investment related income/US dollar eqivalent):

Rs.20k - Rs.29k
Rs.30k - Rs.39k
Rs.40k - Rs.49k
50k - Rs.59k
Rs.60k - Rs.79k

Rs.80k - Rs.99k
Rs.100k - Rs.150k
Rs.151k and up

Investment Income (excluding salaried income):

Rs.1k to Rs.5k
Rs.5k to Rs.10k
Rs.10k to Rs.20k
Rs.20k to Rs.40k
Rs.40k to Rs.100k
Rs.100k to Rs.250k
Other

Loss on Investments (12 month time-frame please) Example = Year - 2016

Rs.1k to Rs.5k
Rs.5k to Rs.10k
Rs.10k to Rs.20k
Rs.20k to Rs.40k

Rs.40k to Rs.100k
Rs.100k to Rs.250k
Other

Employment Status:
Employed
Not employed
Looking for employment

Residence in which country?

India

"This Section is on Investment Structure and Capability"

Age of your personal computer?
Less than 6 months old
6 to 12 months old
1 - 2 years old
older than above

How would you describe yourself as an investor?

Professional
Full-time
Part-time
Casual

Your level of experience?

Novice
Some Limited Experience
Very good
Expert

Do you make use of:

Fundamental Analysis (Income Statements etc)
Technical Analysis (Charts etc)
Both

Do you utilize Bulletin Boards for Communication?

Not at all
Minimal
Moderate
Frequently
No investment value but I use them
Yes, they are an intricate part of my investing knowledge base

Years of Investing Experience?

1 to 5 years
6 to 10 years
11 to 15 years
15 to 20 years
20 or more years

Investment Strategy:
Chose (more than one if needed) what type of investments you have made
in the past 5-years:
Stocks
Bonds
Options
Futures

Indexes (stock or other)

Trust Company shares
Other

Present Portfolio Mix (multiple choices here if required):

Stocks
Bonds
Commodity Trading
Index Trading
Options Trading
Other

What Sectors do you invest in?

Healthcare
Technology
Consumer Goods

Metals
Banking
Food (consumables)
Service Industry
Other

Size of your account?

10k
20k
50k
100k
500k

More

Trades you make per day?

Very seldom invest per day
1 or 2/day

3 to 5/day
6 to 10/day
11 to 15/day
16 to 20/day
more

Trades per month?

1 - 5/month
6 - 10/month
11 - 15/month
16 - 20/month
20 - 30/month
Other

How much time do you spend online in relation to investing?

Less than 1 hour per day
1 - 4 hours per day
A full trading day

Less than 1 hour per week

5 - 10 hours per week
More

Average dollar value of each trade?

Rs. 10k
Rs. 10k to Rs.20k
Rs.20k to Rs.50k
Greater than Rs. 50,000
On average how much?

Average number of different securities held?

1 - 5 at any given time
6 - 10
11 - 15
16 - 30
more

What performance group are you in?

Small Cap
Mid Cap
Large Cap
N/A

You have a willingness to hold stock for how long?

Hours maximum
1 - 5 days
1 - 4 weeks
1 - 6 months
1/2 to 1 year
Longer

You make block trades in equities in:

100 to 500 shares per trade
500 to 1000 shares per trade
1000 to 5000 shares per trade
More

Estimated Commissions per trade:

Rs.5 - Rs.10 per 100 shares
Rs.11 - Rs.50 per 100 shares
Rs.100 - Rs.200 per 100 shares
Rs.5 - Rs.10 per 1000 shares
Rs.11 - Rs.50 per 1000 shares
Rs.100 - Rs.200 per 1000 shares
More per 1000 shares traded

Are your trades executed through a:

Full service broker
Discount Internet broker
ECN Electronically traded broker
Other

Use of software services:

Level I
Level II
Level III
Other

Premium serivces utilized:

Do you trade in a specific security most of the time?

Yes
No

Would you consider trading actively full-time?

Yes
No
I already do!

Are you able to produce gains of 7% or more annually?

Yes
No - not consistently
I average about .....

Do you include dividend-paying investments in your portfolio?

Yes
No

Do you utilize Covered Call Writing Option strategies?

Yes
No
N/A

Have you written naked puts past/present?

Yes
No

Are you actively "shorting" common stock?

Yes
No

Social Aspects:
Personal trading (choose more than one if necessary):
Just me involved
More than one person involved
Family interested
Investment Club

Has your recent trading activity affected your relationship with your family
members?
Yes
No

What would you say the influence of investing has been on you,
Positive

Negative
In-different

Do you think that technology has opened up investment opportunities for

you in the past five years?
Yes
No

Do you believe you trade more frequently because of the ability to access
the market more efficiently?
Yes
No

What sources do you rely on for informative investing?

Bulletin Boards
Online News
TV
Radio
Company Websites
Paid Subscriptions

Personal Skills alone

Other

Have you taken investment-trading courses, seminars in the past?

Yes
No

Do you think you would respond differently to this questionnaire in 1 years'

time?
Yes
No

What stock symbol did you find this questionnaire at?

Investor Feedback - please feel free to add your comments, thank you!