The one big story of the budget was the dual tax regime with individuals now having to choose their tax regime. What does that mean? How the scrapping of DDT and status quo on LTCG tax impacts taxes! Now you need to choose your personal tax regime

If you gauge the markets by the movement of the Sensex and the Nifty on the day of the Budget then it was surely disappointing. A loss of 1000 points on the Sensex is just one side of the story. The bigger worry is that the last 1 year’s efforts to

In a way online trading is as simple as online shopping. Of course, you need to do a little more research and do some follow up monitoring, online trading is effectively as simple as that. Your trading account and demat account are online and everyth

Year 2019 was a year of few IPOs but there were many outperformers with just 3 out of 16 IPOs giving negative returns as on date. Analysis of the performance of the IPOs in the previous year is vital to give us a fair picture of what to expect in the

SBI Cards IPO opens on March 02nd 2020 and closes on March 05th 2020. The IPO will have an offer for sale component and a fresh issue component. The total size of the issue is Rs.10,354 crore and post the issue the stake of State Bank of India in SBI

The IPO process happens to be fairly prolonged and elaborate. Even in terms of filing of documents, there are various levels. The Draft Offer documents are first filed with SEBI and subsequently, the final offer documents after incorporating changes

Before getting into the finer aspects of futures contracts, let us look at a simple futures contract; that most of you would have seen on the NSE. Here is a snapshot of a Reliance Futures Contract. Data Source: NSE The above snapshot is of

In the last 8-10 years there has been a massive proliferation of electronic trading in India and that has been largely helped by better broadband connectivity and the launch of low cost trading. Be it trading over the internet or trading via mobile a

Much has been speculated about how the recovery of the economy is shaped (whether it’s a ‘V’, ‘W’ or ‘L’ shaped one). The stock market is not the economy, but it appears that the stock market might have made a V shaped recovery? Desp

Budget 2020 was rich on expectations but the exemptions in the budget were much lower than what the market desired. The impact was visible in the performance of the stock market indices which cracked in response. While a detailed analysis is still du

If you have an online trading account, it is possible to access your internet trading interface through your smart phone. Most smart phones have a screen that is large enough to be able to read research ideas and transact. However, the internet tradi

What exactly drives the crests and troughs of the markets; or market indices like Nifty and Sensex to be precise? The stock market has been a multi-dimensional representation; in the sense that it has reflected multiple factors rather than just one o