List of Share Market Articles

The risk-free rate of return is a theoretical number within the capital markets that pertains to an investment that provides guaranteed returns with negligible or zero risk.

The concept of average is quite clear. If we buy 3 items at Rs.40, Rs.50 and Rs.60 each then the average price is Rs.50. In other words, the average price is nothing but the total value divided by the number of items.

The greatest resource for a company is its employees. You can start a company with very little capital. However, to see it succeed, you have to rely a great deal on the employees and their hard work. Take the example of any big company that is enjoying success today.

Algorithmic Trading is the process of using pre-programmed trading instructions to execute trading orders at high speed in the financial market.

Equities refer to small pieces of a company’s worth, considering all pending liabilities. If you are investing in a company by purchasing equities, you become an owner of the company in the same ratio as the equities bought.

A majority of investors enter the stock market when they are relatively young and have a regular source of income, such as their salaries.

As there are numerous investment options in the Indian financial market, it may be confusing to choose simply one investing avenue to invest your money. For beginner investors, stocks and real estate seem two ideal asset classes.

Piggyback registration rights entitle investors to register their stocks when either another investor or the company initiates a registration.

The aspect of making huge profits is attributed to stocks that perform exceptionally well and beat the overall returns of their peers, sector or the overall market. But, outperforming the market is not easy.

In this segment, we look at the types of margins that are levied on cash and futures and options positions. There are various margin types ranging from initial margins to MTM margins, which you must be familiar with.

Capital appreciation refers to growth in the market value of assets or investments. For most people, the ultimate objective of investing is capital appreciation - buying assets cheap and selling them at a relatively higher price.

The National Automated Clearing House or NACH is a centralised electronic payment service for banks, corporates, financial institutions and the Government. It was set up by the National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) to introduce best practices in electronic transactions. The NACH was an improvement over the Electronic Clearing System ECS that it replaced from May 2016.

Every company starts by being a private company where all the shares are held privately with the directors, executives or external investors.

Option Chain is the complete picture pertaining to all the option strikes of the Nifty in a single frame.

Foreign investment in India can broadly be classified into two categories—Foreign direct investment (FDI) and investment made by foreign institutional investors (FIIs). In both of these cases, foreign money enters the Indian markets and fuels growth of economy, industries and capital market.