List of Online Share Trading Articles

Leverage in stock markets actually comes in various forms. There is the basic leverage of margin trading where you can pay a small margin and trade intraday. Leverage in the stock market also arises from the ability to pay just part of a delivery trade and borrow the rest in the market. Leverage in the share market can also arise from futures trading where you […]

When winter ends, the summer begins, and when summer ends, the monsoon starts. The same pattern is followed in the stock market. The price of stocks will increase after a particular decline stage and vice versa. The weather department forecasts the upcoming season, temperature and its expected intensity, etc. Likewise, there exist certain technical indicators that indicate the trends in the stock market. One such […]

When we talk of intraday trading, we think of stop losses. But that raises a number of questions.

Before we understand short selling in delivery, let us spend a moment understanding the rolling settlement system in India. Indian markets currently operate on T+2 rolling system. That means if you buy or sell a stock in the morning and do not square off before the end of trade on the same day, then it compulsorily goes into delivery

The stock market works on both data and sentiment. Many novice traders make decisions based on quick tips or have emotional biases while trading.

The one principle that any financial market follows is Trends. A Trend is the direction of the market; it can be bearish (falling prices) or bullish (rising prices).

As the name suggests, intraday trading is all about initiating and closing out the trade on the same day. Here is how intraday trading works. The trader either buys and sells on the same day or sells and then buys back the stock on the same day. Intraday trading does not result in delivery because the net position at the end of the day is zero. Hence intraday trading does not impact your demat account in any way.

Trading ahead is a practice where specialists or market makers put their interests ahead of the investor's financial goals.

A price band is the limit beyond which the price is not allowed to move on a particular day. For example, you may have seen stocks locked in 5% upper circuit or in 10% lower circuit. We recently got to see this quite frequently in stocks such as Vakrangee, PC Jewellers, and Manpasand Beverages.

The term candlestick wick analysis refers to analysing wicks on candlesticks, which are used to gauge trends in the financial markets by comparing them to previous candlesticks.

Gann indicators are normally considered to be a lot more about mathematics and less about charts and technicals. However, Gann indicators have been used quite extensively in identifying opportunities in the stock markets, both at the index level and the stock level.

Candlestick is one of the most important and widely used charts by technical analysts and day traders. It informs precisely about the high, low, opening, and closing price of a security in a day represented in the shape of a candlestick.

A Diamond Top Formation is a technical pattern that often occurs at or close to the top or peak of the market position. This type of pattern is occasional and does not occur as regularly as other technical patterns such as the bearish engulfing candlestick pattern or the shooting star candlestick pattern.

Open interest (OI) is one of the key analytical tools that help one take a price view on stocks and even on the indices. Unlike equity shares that are limited by the number of shares issued, there is no such limit on open interest.

It must have happened that you bought a stock at Rs.400 and the stock price went to Rs.395. You decided to wait and it dipped further to Rs.390.