Investing 101

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Terms & Conditions Voucher codes (hereinafter “Voucher Code/ Voucher Codes”) are non-transfer...

The Great American Dream is something most Indians are very well aware of. Everybody, irrespectiv...

Netflix (NFLX) was the best performing stock of the last decade delivering a whopping 4,181% retu...

Much has been said about discovering the right investable security – in most cases, a “winning” s...

While trying to make sense of all the information out there about a stock you’re researchin...

Investing has always played a large role in our lives. Not too long ago, there was a time when pe...

When looking to either initially build out a portfolio or add to an existing one, investors need ...

If you’re not using Twitter, StockTwits, LinkedIn and other social media when you invest, you&nbs...

Bond and equity returns consist of capital gains and cash distributions. Bond returns consist mai...

One of the things that can be daunting for those new to the investing and trading world is the pl...

Contracts for Difference (CFD) give traders all the benefits of owning a particular stock, index,...

Hedge funds are alternative investment vehicles that explicitly pursue absolute returns on their ...

An arbitrage trading strategy that aims to profit from perceived mispricing of similar securities...

A mutual fund which aims for the highest capital gains and is not risk-averse in its selection of...

A type of swing-trading strategy that assumes a current trading trend will reverse and attempts t...

Attribution analysis is performance-evaluation tool used to analyze the ability of portfolio and ...

CSI is a technical momentum indicator that attempts to identify which commodities are the most su...

Tender period refers to the time period before the expiry of futures contract. It generally has a...

Swing trading is an investment technique where the asset is held for anywhere between a day to a ...

New York Stock Exchange or NYSE is the oldest US Stock exchange and worlds’ largest stock exchang...

Hedging is actually an insurance for trader’s profit/losses against adverse market conditions. Te...

Binary options simply provides only two possibilities of payoffs to the investor – Yes or No. On ...

Algorithmic trading (or algo-trading) is a trading process which utilises highly complex mathemat...

Options are agreements which allow the investor to exercise full authority to buy or sell an unde...

The futures contract is a mutual contractual agreement between the two involved parties regarding...

Insider trading is defined as trading of any financial securities like bonds, stocks and options ...

Institutional investing is a process where non-bank organisation or individual investors pool tog...

‘Spot market’ is a financial market where financial assets, securities or commodities are bought ...

Momentum stock investing is an investment strategy adopted by investors who try to monetize the m...

Arbitrage trading is simply defined as the act of leveraging the price difference of identical or...

Stocks, primarily of small scale public companies, that trades at a relatively low price and usua...

A Day Trader is one who executes buying and selling of financial instruments on the same trading ...

Technical analysts analyse tons of data regarding the stock market to create their reviews and pr...

CFD or Contact for Difference is defined as the difference between stock values at the time of en...

Sentiment index allows traders to take a quick note of investor’s or marketer’s feelings. The inv...

Automated trading system is an automated software that helps creates rules and automatically impl...

Trading System is a set of rules to signal or execute the entry and exit of the equity. These rul...

Market Sentiment is defined as the attitude of investors towards a particular stock or the overal...

The American Stock Exchange aka AMEX is third largest stock exchange in United States. It is loca...

Analysts uses various sets of tools and indicators for technical analysis of stock market. These ...

The ‘Dow Jones Industrial Average’ or DJIA is one of the most popular and 2nd oldest ...

“After Hours Trading” aka “After Hours Market” refers to the buying and selling of securities on ...

Technical analysis is a methodological approach to forecast the direction or the trend of price m...

Only two sentiments available in a stock market are bullish and bearish. While simply put, bull m...

Stock Market Index or Stock Index is defined as the computed numerical value for the stock market...

“The basic reason that the market is down has not changed. We are in a bear market, stocks are ov...

“It is a classic indicator of a bull market when stocks don’t go down even on bad news.” – Elvis ...

We’re beginning a new series of posts to help our budding traders/investors find their comf...