Stock Market: Concepts, basics and Strategies

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How to predict stock trends using Golden Crossover Strategy?

The fraternity of technical analysts is often dubbed as ‘financial astrologers.’ These smarties are always hooked on the screens analysing and interpreting various patterns that candlesticks form during the trading hours.

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What is Portfolio Management?

Portfolio management is much more complicated than stock analysis. Don’t believe us? Listen to legendary economist Adam Smith: “There is a personality difference between the people who are good at finding stocks and the people who call the shots on timing and manage the whole portfolio. Security analysts dig down information and come up with an idea about what should be bought or sold, but they do not necessarily make good conductors for the whole orchestra. [..]”

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Margin Trading : Why is it a double-edged sword?

Phillip Carret once cautiously remarked - “I had a margin call in 1924, and I swore I would never buy on margin again.” But you must know there is much more in it than that. Margin trading, like a double-edged sword, carries the potential to create both billionaires and bankrupts. You would have even heard brokers competing with each other for this to lure people with lower margins and try to gain customers.

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CANSLIM - A Bullish Strategy for Fast Markets

Picking stocks from 5000+ securities that are listed on BSE is a hard game. This can be the most time-consuming task. What if you dedicate a whole day to learn about a business, and finally you find that the business is not profitable yet and you don’t even expect it to make any profits further? Or, what if you study everything about a business and finally find that it is overpriced? That's why filtering stocks is one hell of a task.

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How does Technical Analysis work?

“Analyzing charts really gives an impression of where the money lies.” Well, that's true to some extent; but this would garner mixed opinions. Indeed, Technical vs Fundamental has been one the most heated debates for years now.

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How to Invest in Government Bonds?

Stock market entices pretty much every individual on this planet, and why shouldn’t it? After all, it offers far better returns than any other investment avenue in the regulated markets. However, not many people have a heart of steel to deal with the vigorous palpitations that it sets out due to fluctuations in share prices. So, is there any other option that we can tap on?

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Coffee Can Investing - The Right Way to Buy and Hold

Do you invest in stocks? Do you follow any specific strategy while investing, or do you just buy the shares of a company on a friend’s advice who told you that the prices of that company would go up? You are probably staying too far from reality!

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What is Systematic Withdrawal Plan (SWP)?

"Returns matter a lot. It's our capital." - Abigail Johnson. This quote is self-sufficient to explain the value of the returns which the investors get on their investments.

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Understanding Candlestick Patterns

“Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic” ~Benjamin Graham. This very interesting quote succinctly depicts that even though luck or intuition does have a part to play in stock trading, the major emphasis must be on numbers, that is, on employing various models and techniques to evaluate a stock.

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The Reality Behind Promoter Holdings & Pledged Shares

Too often investing legends like Warren Buffett, Benjamin Franklin and others have regarded successful investing as an art of discovering fundamentally sound stocks. So, one of the important elements within the checklist of fundamentally sound stocks is to analyze the promoter holding pattern of that stock.

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After Bell Market Wrap-up: 23rd July 2021

The green continues! Though the global markets were slightly rough, Indian markets managed to open in the green. Sensex opened around 100 points above the previous close and Nifty opened above 15,850 points. In the initial hours, the indices did drop below the flat line but recovered quite well. The most interesting subject of the market being, the listing of Zomato.

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After Bell Market Wrap-up: 22nd July 2021

It's Green, finally! After two consecutive sessions of red and a break, the markets managed to recover well today. Sensex opened at 52,494.56 and Nifty at 15,736.60. In the Sensex region, 24 out of the 30 companies traded in the green in the early trading hours. Rupee managed to gain 18 paise to touch Rs. 74.43 per dollar during the early hours.

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After Bell Market Wrap-up: 20th July 2021

It’s red again. While last week, the outperforming stock market was expected to witness Nifty at an all-time high of 16,000 points, this week saw the market open in the RED for the second day in a row. Nifty opened at around 15,700 and Sensex at 52,432.88. This resulted from the weakly performing Asian and US markets amid concerns of the Covid-19 Delta variant.

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After Bell Market Wrap-up: 19th July 2021

It wasn’t quite a good start for the markets this week. The low trading global markets surely did have an impact on the Indian stock markets. The markets opened with Sensex at 52,606.99 points, down by around 500 points and Nifty down by around 169 points, at 15,754.40. In the initial hours, only 8 companies out of 30 in the Sensex traded in the green.

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After Bell Market wrap-up: 16th July 2021

A bumper opening today! Indian markets started off at fresh record highs. In the earlier hours of the trading session though, Sensex slipped into the red zone as a result of activity in the IT stocks and finally snapped a 3-day winning run falling 19 pts at the closing bell. While Nifty ended above 15,900. The rupee opened at the previous close, Rs.74.54

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After Bell Market Wrap-up: 15th July 2021

The markets witnessed a fresh breakout today! In the early hours of the trading session, the market hit an all time high. Though the Japanese markets traded lower, the other Asian markets did pretty well. And to top it up, it was an amazing day for the Indian stock market. Sensex opened at 52,968.89 points and Nifty at 15,872.2 points. Rupee opened comparatively higher than the US Dollar.

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After Bell Market Wrap-up: 14th July 2021

Another volatile day at Indian markets today! The markets began flat and started falling initially (Sensex below 52,750 and Nifty 50 below 15,800). However, after initial market hours, the equity stock markets rebounded where Sensex closed positively at 52,904.05(+0.25%), and Nifty 50 gained 41.60 points and ended at 15,853.95.

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After Bell Market Wrap-up: 13th July 2021

Following favourable economic outcomes and positive sentiments in the Asian markets, domestic markets traded in the green today. The Asian shares sparked a rally after Chinese economic data exceeded investor’s expectations. The BSE Sensex closed 397 points or 0.76 per cent higher at 52,769.73, while the Nifty ended with a gain of around 120 points or 0.76 per cent at 15,812.35.

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After Bell Market Wrap-up: 12th July 2021

Amid optimistic global indications, the Indian stock markets opened positively. Sensex opened above 52,634.33 while Nifty 50 around 15,766.88. However, as the trading hours went by, the market started falling, where Sensex closed at 52,372.69(- 0.03%), and Nifty gained 2.80 points and ended at 15,692.60.

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Understanding Goodwill as an Intangible Asset

When you go through the annual report of any company, you will find “Goodwill” under Non-Current Assets in the Balance Sheet. But wait, what is this Goodwill?

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After Bell Market Wrap-up: 9th July 2021

Today is yet another day in the red. With nearly 20 stocks ending in red, the Sensex closed at 52,386.19. Nifty lost 38.10 points and ended at 15,689.80.

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Stock Market Concepts

How to predict stock trends using Golden Crossover Strategy?

What is Portfolio Management?

Margin Trading : Why is it a double-edged sword?

CANSLIM - A Bullish Strategy for Fast Markets

How does Technical Analysis work?

How to Invest in Government Bonds?

Coffee Can Investing - The Right Way to Buy and Hold

What is Systematic Withdrawal Plan (SWP)?

Understanding Candlestick Patterns

The Reality Behind Promoter Holdings & Pledged Shares

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