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IS TRADING FOR ME ?

Questions to Ask Are you thinking of giving day trading a try? If so, here are some preliminary questions which you need to ask yourself bef...

RISING INFLATION

Rising inflation is one of the biggest stories of recent weeks and has received a great deal of attention from the media and political parti...

AN "OPENING GAP" TACTIC

In cases where the markets are set to open up strongly, there will often be large gaps in the opening prices of certain stocks from the prio...

PERSONALITY TRAITS OF SUCCESSFUL TRADERS

Personality What are the key personality traits that successful day traders tend to have in common? Here are some of the most important ones...

FEW TIPS ON HOW TO USE YOUR CREDIT CARDS

Just imagine checking your credit card details one fine day, only to find many fictitious purchases in your name, with the amount running in...

MONEY MANAGEMENT

A crucial aspect of day trading Money management, also referred to as "risk management, is absolutely critical to successful day tra...

BELIEF

He conquers who endures, if you survive & remain active in Trading, Profits are bound to come. Always pass on good advice, it's the ...

TYPES OF TRADING

There are several types of trading styles that persons seeking to profit from short term trades in the market may wish to use. Here is a bri...

BULLS AND BEAR MARKETS

Bull market refers to a market that is on the rise, it has sustained increase in market share prices.In such times, participants have faith...

GOLDEN HABITS OF HIGHLY PROFITABLE ON-LINE TRADERS

Habit #1 - The Habit of Trading ONLY with Risk Capital. Many people have entered the activity of trading with money they could not afford to...

BALANCE SHEET & IMBALANCE OF ORDERS

Balance Sheet Statement of he financial position of a company on a particular date, showing the nature and amount of a company’s assets and ...

GOLD CERTIFICATES

Gold Certificates Issued in exchange of specified amounts of gold, these are tradable in the market in a deregulated economy. The central ba...

EIGHT MISTAKES TO AVOID WHILE INVESTING

Investing is not just about picking winners, but also about avoiding mistakes. Retail investors can be better off if they avoid making the f...

FISCAL YEAR: WHY IT STARTS FROM 1st APRIL

A fiscal year (or financial year or accounting reference date, or sometimes budget year) is a 12 or 13-month period used for calculating an...

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 per...

"Inflation" & how it eats your money silently & affects your investments!

Inflation, is an economic concept. What the cause of inflation is, is not important to us from the point of view of this article. What is i...

CORRECTION

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

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 ...

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 m...

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...

AVERAGING

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

Book short-term losses before March; save tax

NEWS MUMBAI: Are you sitting on unrealised losses from the recent downturn in the stock market? If the investments are less than a year ol...

The Seven Mistakes All Novice Traders Make and How to Correct Them

MISTAKE ONE Lack of Knowledge and No Plan It amazes us that some people expect to trade the stock market successfully without any effort. Ye...

AFTER TAX - Meaning & Definition

After-Tax When one is investing in loan instruments like debentures or bonds or fixed deposits, and when one is an income-tax payer, it is ...

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 wi...

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 ...

10 RULES FOR SUCCESSFUL LONG-TERM INVESTING

The best way to start is to design an investment plan to suit your individual circumstances and regularly monitor the same. As you begin and...

STAGES OF BECOMING A PROFITABLE TRADER

1.Handling Your Emotions. Stress and Anxiety. Fear. Over confidence. Self discipline. 2.Developing a Trading Strategy. 3. Maximize profits b...

DO AND DONTS

1. This is the question probably every equity investor would have asked himself a number of times What you Must NOT Do in Stock Market Don&#...

WHAT IS A BROKERAGE ?

A brokerage is a firm that acts as an intermediary between a purchaser and a seller. More commonly, a brokerage is referred to as a brokera...

WHAT IS A STOCK BROKER ?

A stock broker is a person or a firm that trades on its clients behalf, you tell them what you want to invest in and they will issue the buy...

PRIMARY & SECONDARY MARKET ?

PRIMARY MARKET Market for new issues of securities, as distinguished from the Secondary Market, where previously issued securities are bough...

WHAT EXACTLY ARE INVESTMENTS ?

Judging by the fact that you've taken the trouble to navigate to this page my guess is that you don't need much convincing about the...

INVESTMENT BASICS - WHAT IS A BULL MARKET ?

There are two classic market types used to characterize the general direction of the market. Bull markets are when the market is generally ...