Last few months have kept all of us busy; hence lesser writing on my part. Naturally, things have been busy with a lot of buying and selling across all sorts of trade-able and investment grade instruments. Market activity is very different from how it was 2-3 years back. There is new breed of investors, many…
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Block Deals and Bulk Deals
Block Deal: A single trade of over 5, 00,000 shares or a trade where the total value in monetary terms is greater than or equal Rs. 5 Cr. Timing: The market participants are allowed to enter into block deals only during the first 35 minutes of the continuous trading session as the market opens i.e.…
How to Find the Most Volatile Stocks?
What is Volatility? Volatility in the context of stock markets is the amount of price change which a stock experiences over a given period of time (i.e. breadth or the difference between high-low). Put differently, if the price stays relatively stable, the stock has low volatility. A highly volatile stock is one which moves randomly in…
Psychological Traits of a Successful Stock Investor
The Successful Stock Investor Imagine a world where everyone was equally intelligent, with identical psychological traits and access to the same information. What purpose would the stock markets serve then? I’ll answer that – None. The business of stock Investing thrives on these 3 things – Intelligence, Psychology and Information. After closely observing many successful…