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Basics of Trading

What is a Short Call?

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...
Thu, 8 Apr, 2021 at 9:46 AM

What is Fundamental Analysis?

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...
Sun, 7 Sep, 2014 at 1:20 PM

What are Futures?

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...
Tue, 30 Mar, 2021 at 7:54 PM

What are Options?

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 ...
Fri, 9 Apr, 2021 at 2:37 PM

What is Technical Analysis?

Technical Analysis uses historical stock statistics, usually price and volume data, to forecast future prices. In layman’s terms, a technical analyst is one...
Thu, 1 Apr, 2021 at 12:55 AM

What is the Nifty and the Sensex? What are Nifty Futures?

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...
Fri, 9 Apr, 2021 at 1:19 PM

What are Option Payoffs?

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...
Fri, 9 Apr, 2021 at 2:39 PM

What is a Long Put?

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 ...
Thu, 8 Apr, 2021 at 9:50 AM

What is a Short Put?

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...
Thu, 8 Apr, 2021 at 9:52 AM

What is a lot size in Futures?

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...
Fri, 9 Apr, 2021 at 1:20 PM