Given a text T, and several options, according to the question posed in the text T to choose the most appropriate option from the options as the answer, please directly output the most appropriate option, do not need to output the explanation.

Published ratings on stocks ranging from 1 (strong sell) to 5 (strong buy) are examples of which measurement scale?
Option A:Ordinal
Option B:Continuous
Option C:Nominal

Answer: A