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The National Stock Exchange (NSE) is the country’s largest stock exchange by market share, with shares worth more than 1 lakh crore traded in the cash segment every day. There are over 9 crore registered investors on the market, and the total number of customer codes surpassed 17 crore (because one investor can register with many brokerage …
The difficulty in investment choices emerges when we use a quick and biased approach to stock selection and investing, when a patient, logical, and objective method is required. Quick, impulsive, and prejudiced judgments are the evil of investing, which the current generation of novice investors repeatedly demonstrate. Many explicable and unexplainable elements impact our investment decision-making, including …
Retail investors of late have been active in Futures and Options (F&O) trading. F&O average daily turnover has increased 34.5 times over the last 5 years (from Rs. 9.59 trillion to Rs. 331.2 trillion), but cash volumes have barely doubled (from Rs. 0.35 trillion to Rs. 0.73 trillion). First and foremost, what is this F&O segment? Similar …
The Indian stock market, which dates back to 1875, is among the oldest in Asia. That year marked the founding of the nation’s first stock market, the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). In the 19th century, trading took place under a banyan tree in front of Mumbai’s town hall. Today, it takes place electronically in a notable …
Factor investing is an investment strategy that includes selecting companies based on certain characteristics or variables that are expected to impact their returns. These characteristics may include value, size, growth, quality, and stability. The key difference between Factor investing and traditional investing is that subjective judgment is not used in stock selection when it comes …
Nowadays, we are receiving sales brochure pamphlets from crypto-currency exchanges wrapped with our shopping orders or daily newspapers. Crypto-currency promotion has now reached the point where brochures are put inside the groceries we buy. Yet, as we now learn, the real picture of Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies is considerably more complex and confusing than we …
‘Value investing’ refers to buying an asset at a price that is significantly lower than its intrinsic or true worth. The logic behind this is that markets may misprice assets, allowing investors to buy these mispriced assets at a discount, which will subsequently realise their actual value, resulting in significant returns for the investor. As …
Investing in the stock market often raises a tough question: Is it really for everyone? Or is it just a game where most people lose money? While some stock market scams and bad experiences make headlines, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. It’s not that investing is only for losers, it’s that many investors …
Investing can be confusing, especially when you hear about things that are not stocks, bonds, or cash. These other options are called “alternative assets,” and they have grown in popularity over the years. But what exactly are alternative assets? How do they work? And should you consider them for your own portfolio? In this blogpost, …
When markets reach all-time highs or at all-time lows, the age-old debate about valuation reignites. However, before you consider changing your investment allocation based on whether the market looks to be overpriced or undervalued, you must first understand which valuation criteria are important. The price-earnings (PE) ratio is one such statistic that might help solve this …