Basics of Trading

A 'Call' option is a financial contract that gives you as a buyer the right, but not the obligation, to buy a stock at a specified price at a partic...

Fundamental analysis is based on the idea that the market cannot be depended upon to accurately price a stock. Fundamental analysis looks at external factor...

A Futures contract is a type of financial contract where two parties agree to transact a set of financial instruments for Future delivery at a particular pr...

An Option is a contract sold (written) by one person to the other. The contract gives the buyer the right — but not the obligation — to buy (in the case of ...

Technical Analysis uses historical stock statistics, usually price and volume data, to forecast future prices. In layman’s terms, a technical analyst is one...

The Nifty and the Sensex are both Indices. The Sensex also called the BSE 30, is a stock market index of 30 well-established and financially sound compa...

The 'optionality' characteristic of Options results in a non-linear payoff for them.  In simple words, it means that the losses for the buyer of...

Long or buying a Put is the opposite of buying a Call. When you buy a Call you are bullish about the stock/index. When an investor is bearish, he can buy a ...

Short or selling a Put is the opposite of buying a Put. An investor buys Put when he is bearish on a stock. An investor sells a Put when he is Bullish about...

Each Futures contract has a lot size. The Nifty Future, for example, has a lot size of 50, meaning each Nifty Futures contract represents 50 Nifty underlyin...