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A stock is a small share that represents a partial ownership of a company. A Stock market is the place where buying and selling of stocks takes place. Nowadays due to internet and advanced technology buying and selling of stocks takes place anywhere in India and also from foreign country, there is no need to be physical present in exchanges like NSE and BSE
STOCK MARKET
Stocks are issued by companies in order to raise capitals and are bought by investors in order to acquire a portion of the company. INDIAN STOCK MARKET There are 25 stock exchanges in the India. Bombay stock exchange is the largest, with over 6,000 stocks listed. Established in the year 1875
STOCK MARKET
The National Stock Exchange (NSE), located in Bombay, and it is India's first debt market. It was set up in the year 1993 and it was opened for trading in mid-1994
Stock market
Stock exchanges
Two types of Indices 1.Nifty 2. Sensex
Stock exchanges
Index in share market Index consists of group of shares. Index denotes the direction of the entire market. Like when people say market is going up or down then that means Index is going up or down. Index consists of High market capitalization and High liquidity shares.
Stock exchanges
High Market capitalization shares Companies having highest number of shares and highest price of each share. Market capitalization is calculated by multiplying current share price and number of shares in the market. High Liquidity shares - Shares in the market with high volumes.
A person want to buy/sell stocks in the stock market has to first place his/her order with a broker or can do themselves using online trading systems. The stocks purchased will be sent to the you either in physical or demat format. This process is called Rolling Settlement Cycle
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Depository is an organization responsible to maintain investor's securities in the electronic form. In India there are two such organizations called NSDL (National Securities Depository Ltd.) and CDSL (Central Depository Services India Ltd.)
Open - The first price at which the stock opens when market opens in the morning. High - The stock price reached at the highest level in a day. Low - The stock price reached the lowest level in a day.
Close - The stock price at which it remains after the end of market timings or the final price of the stock when the market closes for a day.
Bid Quantity - The total number of stocks available for buying is called Bid Quantity. Offer Quantity - The total number of stocks available for selling is called Offer Quantity. Buying and selling of stocks - Buy is also called as demand or bid and selling is also called as supply or offer. First selling and then buying (this only happens in day trading) is called as shorting of stocks or short sell.
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Stock Trading - Buying and Selling of stocks is called stock trading. Transaction - One complete cycle of buying and selling of stocks is called One Transaction. Squaring off - This term is used to complete one transaction. Means if you buy then have to sell (means square-off) and if you sell then you have to buy (means square-off).
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Limit Order - In limit order the buying or selling price has to be mentioned and when the stock price comes to that price then your order will get executed with the mentioned price by you Market Order - When you put buy or sell price at market rate then the price get executes at the current rate of market. The market order get immediately executed at the current available price.
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Stop loss order: The orders are given to limit the loss due to unfavourable price movements in the market. A particular limit is given for waiting, if the price falls below the limit, the broker is authorised to sell the shares to prevent further loss. E.g. sell ABC shares at Rs. 50, stop loss at Rs. 48.
Please Note - First you have to buy and sell. You cant sell
before buying in delivery trading while its possible in day trading.
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Short Term Trading Stock trading done from one week to couple of months is called short term. Mid term Trading Stock trading done from one month to couple of months, say six to eight months is called mid term trading.
Long term trading Stock trading done form couple of months to couple of years is called long term trading. Companies whose fundamentals are good and have good future plans then the stocks of these companies are used for long term trading. Generally traders having good capital go for long term trading.
BULL MARKET A Bull Market indicates the constant upward movement of the stock market. A particular stock that seems to be increasing in value is described to be bullish
Sensex (sensitive index) has been calculated since 1986 and initially it was calculated based on the Total Market Capitalization methodology and the methodology was changed in 2003 to Free Float Market Capitalization. The Sensex is calculated for every 15 seconds
Free Float Market Capitalization The value of all the shares available for public trading excluding the promoter equity, holdings through FDI Route, holdings by private corporate, and holdings by employee welfare funds.
Market capitalization of a co. is determined by multiplying the price of its stock by the number of shares issued by the company.
How Sensex Index is calculated The formula for calculating the sensex = (sum of Free Float Market capitalization of 30 benchmark stocks)* Index Factor Where; Index Factor = 100/market cap value in 1978-79 100 is value during 1978-79
Example on Sensex Index calculation Assume sensex has only 2 stocks namely SBI and RELIANCE. Total shares in SBI are 500 out of 200 are held by government and only 300 are available for public trading. Reliance has 1000 shares out of which 500 are held by promoters and 500 are available for trading. Assume price of SBI stock is Rs 100 & Reliance is 200.
Example on sensex calculation Solution Then Free Float Cap of these two company = (300*100+500*200) = 30,000+1,00,000 = 1,30,000 Assume market cap during the year 1978-79 was 25000 Then SENSEX = 1,30,000*100/25000 = 520
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Methodology
The methodology in the example is exactly followed to calculate the SENSEX. Only difference being the inclusion of 30 stocks.
Index closure
The closing SENSEX on any trading day is computed taking the weighted average of all the traders on SENSEX constituents in the last 30 minutes of trading session.
MARGINS
Margins are additional filters applied by the stock exchanges to curb the price volatility. Broker has to pay a margin amount to the stock exchange for every transaction. Margin amount paid is a tool to discourage the speculative and circular trading. Margins are of different types: 1. gross exposure margins 2. net exposure margin 3. Mark to market margin 4. concentration ratio margin 5. special margin
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IMPORTANT QUESTIONS 1. What are the main functions of a stock exchange? In what ways is a stock exchange indispensable for an economy? 2. Briefly trace the history of stock markets in India.