The fact that money lying in trading accounts does not earn any interest income is often a big problem for those who trade in multiple trading accounts, particularly asset managers, stock-brokers and their authorized persons who may not be able to transfer funds between client accounts and their trading account on a short notice. This…
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Financial research and analytics of Indian companies
What exactly should you be concerned about before diving into a business, either to buy or to operate as your own? What do you have to do to run a fund house? A brokerage firm? A small scale manufacturing unit? Or, a service oriented business? Equally important is to understand the laws, rules and regulations…
How do you hire a lawyer in India without any reference?
Naturally, anyone in legal trouble would want to know the past record of a lawyer before making a decision to hire him. Unfortunately, if you want to hire a lawyer in India, you will have to rely on some uncommon old school ways to find one. The cumulative effect of the Advocates Act, the Rules…
How Futures and Options Affect Share Prices?
Of course, the price of derivatives (including futures and options) has a major impact on the price of the underlying share (and vice versa). How can you as a trader benefit from this co-relation has been the subject of many books and much research work. While it is not important to trade on this basis,…
Futures and Options Lot Size – Margin Amount and Number of Shares
In the stock markets, participants can trade in 2 segments: (i) Cash segment; and (ii) Futures and Options (Derivative) segment. Participants in the cash market can buy/sell any number of shares of a company (i.e. they can buy anything from a single share to thousands of shares). On the other hand, in the futures and options…
Best Indian Stocks for Long Term Investment
2nd May 2016 This is an update to an earlier post I had written almost 2 and a half years ago – in December of 2013 to be exact. Earlier post is available on lower half of this page. This post serves as a comparison to how things have changed since then. Top 10 Indian…
Learn About Stock Market Basics — Indian Stock Market
I think it is extraordinary that I meet so many people who are absolutely, and 100% convinced that they cannot understand finance or how to invest in the Indian stock market. Their reason oftentimes is that it is extremely dry, or it will be too difficult for them to understand. I am not sure how…
Best Systematic Investment Plans in India-Start on Your Own
When it comes to financial products, I often sound like a doomsday conspirator. Some of the things I have written in past: Mutual funds are ‘mostly’ pointless; F&O trading – that too based on software, charts, tips and tools, my friend – it’s like trying to reach supersonic speeds in your money losing efforts; Stock…
Marketing Gimmicks-Be Careful and Avoid the Bad Stock
For years I struggled to find out why some companies which cater to a small group of buyers use expensive mode of television commercials to market their products. Imagine a company which manufactures train engines coming out with a commercial: “Our engines get you their faster”, fair enough and I am sure they do. Now,…
Long Term Investment Stocks–Making a 5 Stock Portfolio
The story goes somewhat like this: Warren Buffett was once asked about the best investment advice he would give to a money manager just starting out. He said, “I’d tell him to do exactly what I did 40-odd years ago, which is to learn about every company in the United States that has publicly traded…
Best Place to Invest Your Money
While there are many asset classes to choose from, (i.e. fixed income deposits, real estate, gold, art etc), I will stick to Stocks, which I think is the only viable long term option in the current scenario. For my views on gold and real estate as an investment option, you can read here: How does…
How to Start Investing in Stocks in India?
Most of the trading in the Indian stock market takes place on its two stock exchanges: the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the National Stock Exchange (NSE). The BSE has been in existence since 1875. The NSE, was founded in 1992 and started trading in 1994. Both exchanges follow the same trading mechanism, trading hours,…
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