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Basic Question 20 of 20

The statement that stock prices follow a random walk implies that ______

A. successive price changes are independent of each other.
B. successive price changes are positively or negatively related.
C. the autocorrelation coefficient is positive.

User Contributed Comments 4

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01121975 A random walk: future prices can not be predicted form the past ones.
accounting there is no relationship between price changes
ljamieson random walk is a Markov process
johntan1979 No correlation between past and future prices.
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CFA® 2025 Level I Curriculum, Volume 3, Module 3.