Understanding the stock market starts with a basic understanding stocks. A stock represents partial ownership of a company – the smallest share possible. Company’s issues stocks to raise capital and investors who buy stock are actually buying a portion of…
Demat refers to a dematerialised account. Though the company is under obligation to offer the securities in both physical and demat mode, you have the choice to receive the securities in either mode. If you wish to have securities in…
These days, you can’t retire without using the returns from investments. You can’t count on your social security checks to cover your expenses when you retire. It’s barely enough for people who are receiving it now to have food, shelter…
In finance a share is a unit of account for various financial instruments including stocks, mutual funds, limited partnerships, and REIT’s. In British English, the usage of the word share alone to refer solely to stocks is so common that…
Trends In the preceding section, we saw how support and resistance levels can be penetrated by a change in investor expectations (which results in shifts of the supply/demand lines). This type of a change is often abrupt and “news based.”…
For most Indian retail investors, equity markets have remained an enigma (read: confusion) for a long time now. Successive scams and misdeeds over the last decade have left investors in the lurch. Not surprisingly, the percentage of household savings invested…
1. Reliance Mutual Funds 2. HDFC 3. Fidelity 4. Franklin Templeton 5. ABN Amro 6. AIG 7. Bank of Baroda 8. Birla Sun Life 9. Canara Bank 10. DBS Chola Mandalam AMC 11. DSP Merrill Lynch 12. Deutsche Bank 13.…
List of Index-Component Stocks BSE Sensex ACC Ltd Bajaj Auto Bharti Tele BHEL Cipla Ltd Dr. Reddy’s Labs Grasim Inds Guj Ambuja Cemen HDFC Bank HDFC Ltd Hero Honda Hind Lever Hind Petroleum Hindalco Inds ICICI Bank Infosys Technolo…
What is equity trading? It is simply buying and selling of equities. However, unlike other commodities, equities are not traded everywhere, and are traded only in special market places called exchanges.
Underlying – The specific security / asset on which an options contract is based. Option Premium – This is the price paid by the buyer to the seller to acquire the right to buy or sell Strike Price or Exercise…