Block Deals and Bulk Deals
Block Deal: A single trade of over 5, 00,000 shares or a trade where the total value in monetary terms is greater than or equal Rs. 5 Cr. Timing: The market participants are allowed to enter into block deals only during the first 35 minutes of the continuous trading session as the market opens i.e. from 9:15 am to […]
How Are Stock Prices Determined?
Today I will try to answer a question which I received from one of our subscribers. Vijay asked – “How are stock prices determined? I mean, why would a stock like Bosch trade at Rs. 26000+ while Noida Toll Bridge would trade at Rs. 35? Does it purely depend on how many shares are ‘in […]
How to Find the Most Volatile Stocks?
What is Volatility? Volatility in the context of stock markets is the amount of price change which a stock experiences over a given period of time (i.e. breadth or the difference between high-low). Put differently, if the price stays relatively stable, the stock has low volatility. A highly volatile stock is one which moves randomly in […]
How to Judge Investor Sentiment in Stock Market
What markets do day to day is overwhelmingly driven by random chance. Ascribing explanations to short term moves is like trying to explain lottery numbers. It’s no secret that in the short term – investor sentiment is arguably the only driver of stock prices. Their sentiment may turn positive or negative based on news flow, majority analyst […]
What is Algorithmic Trading
Before I begin – Remember that while algorithms can enable high frequency trading, the scope for algorithmic trading is much wider. While all high frequency trading will use some form of computer programming, all algorithms are not written to execute only high frequency trades. Algorithmic Trading Every buy/sell trade in the stock market is backed […]
Fall in Crude Oil Prices – Discovering Sustainable Levels
Let’s assume that many countries become self sufficient for their crude oil requirements. In such a situation crude oil will become like any other domestic commodity (think of cotton or sugar) and its market price will be determined by similar various domestic and international factors. Consequences: Whenever it would become cheaper to import oil from […]
Arbitrage Opportunity in Stock Markets – Making Risk Free Profits
Arbitrage involves buying and selling the same asset simultaneously across two different markets to profit from the price difference. In the stock markets, arbitrage opportunity exists across the cash (delivery) and the derivative (F&O) market. In the most basic form delivery positions can be hedged by having a counter position in the futures market**. The big […]
Put Backspread Option Strategy
When to use: Put Backspread Option Strategy is used when the investor is bearish on the stock (i.e. when the investor expects the stock price to fall in the near future). How it works: In the put backspread strategy the investor sells 1 in-the-money put option; and buys 2 out-of-the-money put options of the same underlying stock with the same expiry […]
Call Backspread Option Strategy
When to use: Call Backspread Option Strategy is used when the investor is bullish on the stock (i.e. the investor expects the price of the stock to rise in the near future). How it works: Call backspread option strategy uses three option contracts of the same underlying stock, with the same expiry date but two different strike prices. In […]
Short Synthetic Option Strategy
When to use: Short Synthetic Option Strategy is used when the investor is bearish on the stock in the near future (i.e. the investor expects the stock to fall in the near future). How it works: In a short synthetic option strategy you sell 1 call option and buy 1 put option of the same underlying stock with the same expiry […]