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Trading in Circuit Limits
22-Oct-13 05:21PM

The major stock and commodities exchanges have instituted procedures to limit mass or panic selling in times of serious market declines and volatility. These mechanisms are known as Circuit Breakers, the Collar Rule, and Price Limits. Circuit Breakers establish whether trading will be halted temporarily or stopped entirely. The collar Rule and Price Limits affect the way trading in the securities and futures markets takes place

Investor Services Cell and Arbitration
15-Oct-13 06:24PM

Investor Service Cell (ISC) handles the investor’s complaints against the trading members / companies in respect of claims/disputes for transactions executed on the Exchange. The complaints are forwarded to the trading members for resolution and seeking clarifications. The ISC follows-up with the trading members and makes efforts to resolve the complaint expeditiously. In certain cases, on account of conflicting claims made by the investor and the trading member, when it is not possible to administratively resolve the complaint, investors are advised to take recourse to the arbitration mechanism prescribed by the Exchange.

Block Trading Session of Stock Market
11-Oct-13 06:28PM

The Exchange has introduced a separate trading session for the block trades from November 14, 2005. In this session, trading is conducted in the Odd Lot market (market type ‘O’) with book type ‘OL’ and series ‘BL’. It is a 35 minute market; i.e. the trading window shall normally remain open from 9:15 hours to 9:50 hours. There is no pre-open and post close in the block trade session. For a block trade, order should be of a minimum quantity of 5,00,000 shares or minimum value of Rs. 5 crore which ever is lower.

Trade Management in Stock Market
10-Oct-13 12:05PM

A Trade is an activity in which a buy and sell order match with each other. Matching of two orders is done automatically by the system. Whenever a trade takes place, the system sends a trade confirmation message to each of the users involved in the trade. The trade confirmation slip gets printed at the trader workstation of the user with a unique trade number. The system also broadcasts a message to the entire market through the ticker window displaying the details of the trade. Before the trade is effected, the system performs checks with respect to the following parameters:

NCDEX Trading Platform
05-Oct-13 03:59PM

National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange Ltd. (NCDEX) is a technology driven commodity exchange. It is a public limited company registered under the Companies Act, 1956. It has been launched to provide a world-class commodity exchange platform for market participants to trade in a wide spectrum of commodity derivatives driven by best global practices, professionalism and transparency. NCDEX is regulated by Forward Markets Commission in respect of futures trading in commodities. NCDEX currently facilitates trading of various commodities – gold, silver, base matels, and many agri products.

What are Options in stock market?
04-Oct-13 07:34PM

An option is a contract which gives the buyer the right, but not the obligation to buy or sell shares of the underlying security at a specific price on or before a specific date. “Option” as the word suggests, is a choice given to investor to either honors the contract, or if he chooses exits from the contract. There are two kinds of options: Call Option and Put Options.

Clearing And Settlement in Stock Market
03-Oct-13 05:07PM

The clearing and settlement mechanism in Indian Securities market has witnessed significant changes and several innovations during last decade. These include use of the state-of-art information technology, emergence of clearing corporations to assume counter party risk, shorter settlement cycle, dematerialize and electronic transfer of securities, fine tuned risk management system.

Methods of buying and selling of shares
01-Oct-13 04:59PM

Market Orders : When you put buy or sell price at market rate then the price get executed at the current rate in the market. The market order gets immediately executed at the current available price. In market order there is no need to mention the price, the transaction will get executed at the best current available price.

What is Short Selling?
18-Sep-13 04:04PM

Short selling means selling the securities which you didn't buy at all. The term short here signifies that you do not hold the securities being sold. The first thought strikes up would be – where do these shares come from which you are going to sell without possessing them in your account.

Functions of SEBI
11-Sep-13 06:38PM

In India Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has been established by Indian Government in 1998 and given statutory powers for the purpose of to protect the interest of the investors and to promote development and regulate the stock market.

About National Stock Exchange (NSE)
06-Sep-13 04:53PM

There are two major stock exchanges in India named Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and National Stock Exchange (NSE) situated in Mumbai, India both are responsible for majority of share transactions. NSE is mutually owned by a set of leading banks, financial institutions, insurance companies and other financial intermediaries in India but its ownership and management operate as separate entities.

Who will inherit the shares?
27-Aug-13 06:43PM

At the time of opening a Demat account for trading in shares, you should be ensure to give the details of nominee to whom shares will be transferred in case of account holder death. His/her heir not entitled to get the shares transferred into their names if not mentioned as nominee, the shares will go to those nominee whom details updated in the Demat account.

Intraday Trading
24-Aug-13 04:31PM

Day trading means buy/selling of shares and off setting the positions on same day. Day trading serves the purpose of bringing the liquidity to market and they help the market movement, more then 80% of the volume of stock market comes from day trading after introduction of derivative market and advanced trading techniques had made the day trading to grow the market more.