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52 Week High is the highest price at which a particular stock has traded in the last one year. Traders and investors look at this price to help understand the...
52 Week Low is the lowest price at which a particular stock has traded in the last one year. Traders and investors look at this price to help understand the...
Average True Range (ATR) is a useful indicator and can be applied to stocks and indices. It is the measure of volatility of a price range. The ATR is a...
"The Accumulation Distribution Line (ADL) is an indicator that looks at supply and demand by deducing whether investors are generally buying (accumulating), or selling (distributing) a certain stock. This is...
Algorithmic Trading is the process where a pre-programmed trading instruction is fed into the computer program in order to execute an automated trade. Specific instructions can be assigned for variables...
An annual report of a company is an exhaustive report of a company's activities that took place during the previous year. Usually, shareholders look at annual reports in order to...
It is the buying and selling of securities in different markets at the same time so as to make a profit by taking an advantage of differing prices of the...
A marketplace instrument where potential buyers bid on a particular product, assets and/or services. The person who places the highest bid purchases the item on auction. Historically, auctions were a...
Balanced Funds are usually set up for those investors who look for a blend of safety, sizeable income and modest capital appreciation. The amount in these kinds of funds should...
A bracket order is a way in which a trader can limit her/his loss. A trader can "bracket" an order and set two orders on the opposite ends i.e. she/he...
A broker is a person/organization who helps people purchases and sells goods and/or assets.
Brokerage is the amount that a broker charges for purchasing and selling goods and assets for others.
The Bombay Stock Exchange was started in 1875. It was called the "Native Share and Stock Brokers' Association" back then. It has about 6,000 companies and has developed India's capital...
Cash Market is a public marketplace where transactions of financial instruments such as securities or commodities are immediately settled. Cash Market is the opposite of a futures market wherein the...
Market variables such as stock prices, market averages, commodity prices, trading volume, interest rates etc. are mathematically plotted on a graph in order to spot trends and also predict future...
A Circuit Breaker or a collar is a measure that is set in order to stop panic selling after either a security or an index has fallen drastically by a...
Raw materials and bulk goods such as metals, livestock, oil, grains, cotton, cocoa, sugar etc which are used to manufacture consumer products that can be easily used by the average...
It is the official legal record of a transaction that is carried out on a stock exchange through a stock broker. The trader gets the contract note at the end...
In a marketplace, an order placed with a Stop Loss Order is called as Cover Order. In a cover order both the buy/sell orders are placed with a mandatory Stop...
Trading in international currencies is a global market where about $1.9 trillion is circulated in a day. It is one of the largest financial markets in the whole world. MNCs,...
A debenture is a debt instrument which is an insecure instrument i.e. it is not backed by a physical assets or collateral. Debentures are secure only because of the issuer's...
Delivery is the final step of finalization of a purchase or sale of a financial investment instrument. Just like the purchase and sale of any other product in a marketplace,...
Demat is short for "dematerialization" (DEMAT). It is the move from physical certificates to an electronic version of keeping a record of all the shares an investor owns. With the...
Shares and securities are held in a special account called "Demat" which basically means that these shares and securities are held electronically in a "dematerialized" account. This account is a...
A Depository Participant is an agent or representative of a depository. A depository can be literally translated as a place where valuables are stored for safety purposes. However, in the...
A derivative is not a stand-alone financial product. Its value is dependent or it derives its value from another variable asset.
Derivatives market is the financial market for derivatives which are a group of products including futures and options whose value is derived from and/or is dependent on the value of...
Derivatives are those instruments that are dependent on another security for its value. There are several underlying assets based on which traders can purchase and sell in the derivatives market....
Discount brokers are those brokerage firms who charge a reduced fee/commission for helping investors purchase and sell on the stock markets. Such discount brokers like Upstox utilize the best of...
When speaking of the financial markets, equity is a stock or any other security that is owned by a person. Equity is the share of the stakeholder in a company's...
Equity Trading is the purchasing and selling of company stock shares. In publicly traded companies or IPOs, shares are bought and sold through stock exchanges such as the BSE or...
Futures are contracts for assets such as commodities or shares bought at predetermined prices. However, the final delivery and actual payment for futures contracts is done later. That's why in...
People can trade in the futures exchange or futures market where people can trade futures contracts which are contracts to purchase a certain volume of a particular commodity or securities...
The S&P CNX Nifty or what is also commonly known as NSE Nifty or Nifty fifty is an Indian stock index. This is basically an average of 50 indian stocks....
NSE is the abbriviation for the National Stock exchange of India. The NSE is a leading stock exchange in India established in 1952 located in Mumbai.
A security that gains price or increases in price during the course of a single trading day is called a gainer. A gainer is a security that has a higher...
A security that loses value during the course of a single trading day is called a loser. A loser is a secutiry with a high price at the open or...
Just like a traditional bank account holds your salary and savings, a trading account holds cash and securities that is usually held at a financial institute such as a broker....
Trading indicators or Market Indicators are a group of technical indicators that traders use in order to predict the direction that financial indexes might take. Most technical analysis indicators are...
A trading platform in terms of finance is a computer software through which you as an investor or a trader can open, close and manage your positions in the market....
A trading strategy is a plan that is put into action in order to get profits by either trading in the direction of the market or against the market. Trading...
A brokerage firm or a traditional broker is an institute which enables the purchasing and selling of securities in the financial marketplace between a buyer and seller. A traditional broker...
Transfer of shares is when the title of a share is transferred from one person to another. The company whose shares are being transferred from one person to another should...
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