Stock Market: Concepts, basics and Strategies

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What is Contrarian Investing?

A popular dialogue from a Rajnikant movie, “Jhund me toh kutte aate hain, sher akela chalta hai”. Yes, that might be the ideology most contrarian investors believe in. Contrarian investing, as its name suggests, follows an investment strategy that runs contrary to the popularly used ones. It means buying assets at a time when others are panic selling it.

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Bull Vs Bear Market- A Stock Market Concept Explainer

Is it still a bull market, or it has become bearish? Is it bears vs bulls? And why, exactly, do we use such terminology to characterise stock markets?

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What is Scalping Trading?

Investing in the stock market is highly popular in India, with over 8.3 Crore individuals registered with depositories CDSL and NSDL for their Demat account. Stock market investing has become even more popular in the country since the COVID-19 pandemic when many people lost their jobs and had very few options left for earning an income. There are basically two types of individuals who put their money in the stock market: traders and investors. While traders aim to make quick gains with short-term holdings, investors add securities to their portfolios with a long-term view.

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Simplifying Blue Chip Stocks

Although used more frequently by investors than ever before, the term blue-chip traces its origins to the game of poker. You see, in poker, the standard game has three coloured chips; white, red and blue, with white being the least valued, followed by red and then blue.

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Buy The Dip: What does it mean & How it works?

While the stock market is all “Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gum”, a dip in stock prices can bring either “Gum” or “Khushi” among investors. If you are someone who is feeling the “Khushi” seeing the recent market dip, you might be in a mood to dive in and buy on the dip. The stock market has fallen by more than 12 per cent over the last three months.

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What is Volatility in Stock Market?- Understanding VIX

What’s like surfing on a wave? Well, it depends on the type of wave, right? The higher the wave and the rougher the sea is, the more difficult it is to maintain balance.

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Inside Bar Candle: Know Everything About It

Let's Offend: Haven't we been emphasizing on investing, rather than trading? But no, karna hume trading hi hai!

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What are GARP Stocks?

Nothing in this world is perfect. Why else would there be a chink in every armour, a flaw in every plan? Yet perfection is wanted and people chase after it.

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Efficient Market Hypothesis – Know Everything About It

In one of my professor's seminars, he claimed that you can't make more than the stock market wants to offer. He asserted that no one could outperform the market. I stared at him cautiously, wondering if he was telling the truth.

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What are T2T stocks?

Have you ever purchased something on Amazon just to discover that it is not what you expected? Only to discover later that it cannot be returned and that you are stuck with it. What if the same thing happened to the stocks you purchased? What if you discover that if you buy a certain segment of shares, you won't be able to square your position in them unless you meet certain conditions, even if the transaction results in a big loss for you?

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What is FII and DII in the Stock Market?

Reading headlines like “FIIs pumped in money, and the nifty closed at 17000 rallying over 400 points in one day” got me wondering who these people who “rallied” the stock market are. Are they Insiders? Or do they control the market? Why does everyone give their investment in a particular sector so much importance? Why is their entry always so exciting and exit always so panicking for everyone?

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A Quick Introduction to Options Trading

If you are an avid market watcher, like most of the people who visit this blog, you must have heard your friends talking about ‘Futures’ and ‘Options’ that give spectacular returns.

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What is Paper Trading?

Whether it’s new entrants or seasoned veterans, one statement that stands equally true for both is, “Practice makes perfect”.

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Types of Orders in Stock Market

We’ve discussed margins and margin trading in a previous blog. But we didn’t dive deep into how margins are calculated and other nitty-gritty of the matter. And as Thomas Macaulay said, “Half knowledge is worse than ignorance.” So, we think it’s necessary to complete what we started.

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What is ASM list in Stock Market?

Investing in the stock market is always associated with risks. These risks are usually any such occurrences that eventually lead to the investors’ loss or even capital erosion.

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What is BTST Trade?

In the world of the stock exchange, there are some terms that should be in our memory like answering “yes, Papa” to “Johny Johny”. Of the list of those many terms, the words ‘transaction date’ and ‘settlement date’ hold importance for us today.

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What is Upper Circuit and Lower Circuit?

The stock markets are a collection of any and all venues where the shares of a publicly-traded company are issued, bought and sold. The parties involved in the stock market include the buyers and sellers of shares. When we think of “buyers and sellers”, most people think of the average Joe from the public that trades or invests in stocks. These people are called retail investors.

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How to find Multibagger Stocks?

“Hypothetically, you only need four multi-baggers in your life and an initial investment of ₹10,000 and you’d be set for the rest of your life.” Yes, I know the ‘Hypothetically’ really dampens the excitement of the idea. But that line sure has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?

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What is a consolidated mutual fund statement?

Mutual funds are great. It helps you invest in a number of companies at once, it is professionally managed and is less risky than investing in direct equities. It's also a great option if you are looking for diversification.

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What comprises analysis of Financial Statements

You must have heard some statements like, 90% of people lose money in the stock market. Shocking right? More than an average number of people invest in the stock market based on tips, rumours and whatnot.

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What is Industry Analysis and How to do it

The world of finance is a huge jungle. The ecosystem is dynamic and involves so many things and when it comes to investing, one of the most important steps that should be taken into consideration before we invest in any stock is, Stock Analysis. After all, you should always invest some time in analysing a stock before you invest money in it. In the process of stock analysis, in a broader sense, analysing the industry is a factor that is significant.

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Stock Market Concepts

What is Contrarian Investing?

Bull Vs Bear Market- A Stock Market Concept Explainer

What is Scalping Trading?

Simplifying Blue Chip Stocks

Buy The Dip: What does it mean & How it works?

What is Volatility in Stock Market?- Understanding VIX

Inside Bar Candle: Know Everything About It

What are GARP Stocks?

Efficient Market Hypothesis – Know Everything About It

What are T2T stocks?

What is FII and DII in the Stock Market?

A Quick Introduction to Options Trading

What is Paper Trading?

Types of Orders in Stock Market

What is ASM list in Stock Market?

What is BTST Trade?

What is Upper Circuit and Lower Circuit?

How to find Multibagger Stocks?

What is a consolidated mutual fund statement?

What comprises analysis of Financial Statements

What is Industry Analysis and How to do it

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