10a. Capital Gain = Selling Price – Purchase price
= y – x
11. Divide the change in price by the 2003 price:
39
12a. She had a gross capital loss because y < x.
12b. Tom is correct because both formulas can be
13b. Multiply the total purchase price by 40%: 0.4gw.
13c. Add the original purchase price and the capital
14b. Multiply the price per share by the capital gain:
14c. Multiply the capital gain by the number of
shares: 1.4dx.
14d. Add the original purchase price of half the
shares to the capital gain of half the shares
14e. There was a gain, because the selling price of
the first half of the shares was 1.2dx, and the
original purchase price of all d shares was dx.
price: x > 4,093.75.
would be greater than or equal to the purchase
price minus $1,000 and less than the purchase
Lesson 1-7 Stock Transaction Fees
Check Your Understanding (Example 1)
Check Your Understanding (Example 2)
Since Jared’s portfolio value is greater than
Since the fee for one automated telephone trade is
Check Your Understanding (Example 3)
Check Your Understanding (Example 4)
Net proceeds = h – (0.01)h – (p + 40) = 0.99h – p
Applications
1. The investor and the stockbroker are each in
control of their decisions. Investors can make a
stockbroker, or make their own decisions on
which stocks to buy and sell.
2a. Since Carlos makes less than 100 trades per
year, his fees are in the first row of the table:
2d. First 100 trades: 100 × $17 = $1,700
2e. Since Carlos makes less than 100 trades per
2f. The purchase price of the stock is xy
Multiply the purchase price of the stock by the
commission rate to get the commission paid.
3b. $6,000 × $47.29 =$283,740
3c. $283,740 × 0.01 = $2,837.40