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Derivatives Trading

Posted in Stock Market, tagged , , on Friday, April 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »

What are various types of derivatives?
Futures : A futures contract is an agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a certain time in the future at a certain price. Presently Index futures on S&P CNX NIFTY and CNX IT , Stock futures on certain
specified Securities and Interest Rate Futures are available [...]

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Basics of Financial Markets

Posted in Stock Market, tagged , , , , , on Monday, April 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »

What is Investment?
The money you earn is partly spent and the rest saved for meeting future expenses. Instead of keeping the savings idle you may like to use savings in order to get return on it in the future. This is called Investment.
What is an ‘Equity’/Share?
Total equity capital of a company is divided into equal [...]

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SENSEX and NIFTY

Posted in Stock Market, tagged , , , , on Tuesday, April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The Sensex and Nifty are the Index of BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) and NSE (National Stock Exchange) respectively. An Index is basically an indicator. It gives you a general idea about whether most of the stocks have gone up or most of the stocks have gone down.
The BSE is situated at Bombay and the NSE [...]

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