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Intraday trading is all about creating and closing out positions in the stock market on the same day. You can buy in the morning and sell before close of trade, or you can sell in the morning and then buy it back before end of the day. In fact, since Indian equity markets operate on rolling settlement, the only way to short sell stocks is to do it intraday. When it comes to intraday trading, it is more about risk and less about returns. If you select the right stocks and manage the risk of the trade properly, then returns will follow automatically. However, since you need to get out of an intraday position on the same day, you need to be extremely careful of the stocks you choose. Here are 5 pointers to choosing stocks for intraday trading Continue reading →

The balance sheet of a company is a record of the company’s assets and liabilities. It essentially shows how much the company owns and how much the company owes. Since balance sheet is a stock, it is always depicted at a point of time as against the income statement which is depicted over a period of time (1 year or 1 quarter). For any equity analyst, the balance sheet is an important aspect of fundamental analysis. Here are four things you need to look for in the balance sheet of a company Continue reading →

When you decide to buy or sell shares in the market, you need to first place an order. The order can either be a blanket order or it can be a conditional order. When the order gets executed, it becomes a trade. Normally, when an order is placed, it first shows up in the order book of your trading account. When the order is executed, the status is reflected in the order book while the trade book shows the details of the order execution with price, quantity and trade reference number.
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According to a market analysis of traders, nearly 70% of the traders stop trading within the first 1 year and over 90% of them give up trading after 3 years. One of the key reasons for this high casualty rate is that traders do not follow the right trading path. Trading stocks is all about rules and planning and the more meticulous you are, the more likely you are to succeed. Right type of trading in markets is about doing these 5 things right Continue reading →