What is Short Selling? In simple words – sell first and buy later. Short Selling – Selling of stocks that you do not own in your demat account. The goal is to profit from falling price of a stock (i.e. the trader is betting that the price of the security is likely to...
I wasn’t really sure of the title to this post but the idea stemmed out of a question that I received from a subscriber. Instead of repeating the exact question, I will break it up into 2: Can you earn fixed interest income on the spare cash lying in your trading...
I have written about educated speculation in the stock markets (here) and about how to create an ideal streamlined portfolio of stocks for the long term (here). A topic I have never touched is short term trading in stocks. The irony is that this is what keeps me busy...
If you read my previous posts you will know that usually I am not the one who recommends going short on stocks. Almost never! The big advantage of not being extremely dogmatic with how money making is done is that when opportunities are crystal clear you implement...
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...
