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March 31, 2008 · By Analyst

A fiscal year (or financial year or accounting reference date, or sometimes budget year) is a 12 or 13-month period used for calculating annual ("yearly") financial statements in businesses and other organiza…

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Article March 31, 2008

WHAT IS AGM AND EGM ?

AGM or Annual General Meeting is a Meeting held once a year where the directors of the company report to the shareholders on the year’s performance …

Article March 27, 2008

CORRECTION

Correction A short and sharp reversal, usually downwards, in the price of and individual share or shares in general. Corrections usually occur durin…

Article March 27, 2008

AMORTIZATION

Writing off of he assets of a company over a number of years, not necessarily depending on the life of the assets, for the purpose of their replaceme…

Article March 27, 2008

CIRCUIT BREAKER

A system to curb excessive speculation in the stock market, applied by the stock exchange authorities, when the index spurts or plunges by more than …

Article March 15, 2008

PROFIT FROM A FALLING STOCK

There are several ways to profit from a falling stock, but for tonight we are going to discuss the two most basic principals, shorting stock versus b…

Article March 15, 2008

AVERAGING

Averaging Buying a share at different times, in different quantities. And at different prices, so that an advantageous average price is obtained. For…

Article March 03, 2008

WHAT IS MARGIN TRADING ??

Margin trading is buying stocks without having the entire money to do it. The exchanges have an institutionalised method of buying stocks without hav…

Article March 01, 2008

STOCK MARKET RULES

1. Persistence Who is going to succeed and who is going to fail? What does it finally come down to? It is persistence that keeps us working at our fu…