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On August 15th 2018, India will complete 71 years of freedom. While the freedom was an outcome of untold sacrifices of great leaders, the Independence Day is also an occasion to remember the millions of Indians who silently made “Free India” possible. Independence was not just about the passion and dedication of the freedom fighters …

https://www.angelone.in/stocks/large-cap-stocksMid cap stocks and small cap stocks have had a dream run in the last 3 years. To be more precise, the run in mid caps and small caps began with the crash in oil prices beginning 2014. For 3 consecutive years, the mid caps and the small caps vastly outperformed the large caps. There …

So, you are finally planning to make your foray into equities and are planning to open your trading account and demat account with a broker. Before you sign up with the broker, you must have clarity on the services that your broker provides. In fact, there are 8 basic services that you must insist that …

This article could also have been titled “How not to be fooled by the FMCG Index”? If you look at the FMCG index performance in the last 1 year, the returns are around 11%. That is really nothing to write home about. The real reason for this tepid performance of the FMCG index is the …

Do Bonus and stock split create value for shareholders? Let us start with the unbelievable story of how Wipro created wealth over the years. Had you bought 100 shares of Wipro in 1980 at a price of Rs.100 then your investment of Rs.10,000 would be worth a princely Rs.510 crore today. Of course, we are …

Did you know that more than 80% of the traders who buy options tend to lose money. Of course, you can feel smug that you only lose the premium, but that is hardly any consolation. Remember, that an option is different from futures in the way it is structured. A future is a symmetrical product. …

When stock futures were first introduced in India in 2001, they became quite popular as futures were structurally similar to the Badla system on the BSE. However, the regulator has been worried (and rightly so) that losses on futures could multiply if retail investors do not understand the finer points. Why do we see so …

Did you know that if you have bought the Sensex in 1980 and held on to it, your wealth would have multiplied nearly 370 times? There are much better stock-specific cases. For example, an investment of Rs.10,000 in Wipro in 1980 would be worth Rs.450 crore today. Similarly, an investment of just Rs.1 lakh in …

When the prices of petrol were cut by 1 paisa after 16 straight days of price hikes, there was a sense of dry irony in the entire situation. The price of 1 litre of petrol in Mumbai was already above Rs.85/litre. To begin, India imports nearly 75% of its daily crude requirements and hence its …

If you thought trading in options little bit like rocket science, then you are not exactly to be blamed. That is what futures & options are made out to be in the markets. They are presented as some exotic product that is abstruse and hard to comprehend. For a moment let us forget about speculating …