Laddering is a term in finance used in different contexts. You might have heard it in connection with retirement planning, where it refers to reducing interest rate and reinvestment risk of the investor. It is also used in the security underwriting market to describe a practice of offering privilege to insider traders at the expense …
Investing is the only way you can make your money grow. But it requires discipline. If you are not doing it systematically, chances are you fall short of achieving financial goals. So, what is the right way to invest? Financial advisors say that you need to plan an investment based on age, goals, and risk …
Let’s accept, many of us don’t have the heart to manage our investment. The idea is quite scary, and we want to avoid the trouble it takes – following market performance, comparing charts, and more. But, let’s remind ourselves that no other asset class has the potential to generate returns like stock investment in the …
If you observe the stock price movement in the market, you will find a pattern in it. The price movement isn’t ad-hoc, as most people would like to believe; instead, it moves within a range. Establishing the price range helps technical traders identify the extremely overbought and oversold situations. A range, made of two bands, …
In the market, traders always look for possible buying and selling indications to decide entry point in the market. What they want to know is which way the market is moving, for which, they use WRB analysis, because it represents a trend within a smaller time-frame. WRB stands for wide range bar, is candlestick pattern, …
India’s biggest cricket carnival has started. In a country where cricket has become next to religion, assuming that it will also impact market performance isn’t absurd. Experts, therefore, tried to study the IPL effect on stock market, hoping to find a connection between the two. But can IPL influence investor sentiment? Let’s see how far …
Convertible bond arbitraging is an interesting concept. In this blog post, we will dabble in the topic of convertible bond arbitrage to see how one can build a trading strategy around it. As we know, arbitraging is a process of gaining profit from the price difference in markets due to efficient price discovery mechanism failure. Arbitraging …
The outbreak of COVID-19 has been a game-changer in many ways. It has pushed industries to explore the virtual and digital platforms to expand businesses. In which is now called the ‘new normal’, we can expect digital platforms to take the front seat in driving jobs, banking, businesses, and even education. Leading the new wave, …
Defence sector stocks surged 13 percent, propelled by the Make in India move as the government proposes ban on import of 101 items to drive the domestic production. The defence ministry is drafting a plan in which they have identified 101 items in the weapon, platform, and equipment categories for which they will restrict import in …
India’s largest private sector bank HDFC has expressed desires to raise capital funds from the market through AT1 bonds. It will be the first for any Indian bank to issue an unsecured perpetual debt instrument to raise funds since Yes Bank issued it in March this year after it was placed under moratorium by RBI. …
