For the third consecutive week, our markets had a promising start; but we failed to capitalize on it once again due to lack of follow up buying interest. The US markets were the spoilsport as we witnessed a sizeable correction there in the latter half of the week. Although, we didn’t mirror the weakness, our …
If you have been in the derivatives market for some time, you would have surely heard the now famous story of how Nick Leeson brought down Barings Bank of London. Leeson, who was heading the Barings trading desk out of Singapore, had heavily sold strangles on the Nikkei (Japanese index). Essentially, he had sold higher …
Take any housing finance company in India and they have been clear outperformers in the equity market. Be it the larger housing finance companies like HDFC, LIC Housing Finance and Indiabulls Housing Finance or smaller companies like GIC Housing, CanFin Housing and Dewan Housing; they have all outperformed the overall market by a fairly big …
High-frequency trading and Algorithmic trading (HFT & AT) have dominated the trading world in the recent decade, particularly HFT. HFT was responsible for moreover 60% of U.S. trade in 2009-2010. Overview of High Frequency Algo Trading HFT is a subset of algorithmic trading, while Ultra HFT trading is a subset of HFT. HFT and Ultra HFT …
Today, non-delivery based trading on the stock exchanges ranges from 70-75% on a daily basis. This is largely driven by intraday traders who look to play more on the short term price volatility of the stock. For a trader to be successful in intraday trading there are 4 basic pre-conditions. Firstly, the trader needs to …
Future outlook Markets had a buoyant start for the new trading week on Monday and previous week’s struggle around 17800 finally came to an end as we managed to open convincingly above it. After the initial upticks, index slipped into a consolidation and kept flirting with psychological mark of 18000. The buying re-emerged towards the …
We started off on a positive note on Monday; but with some intraday swings on both sides, Nifty managed to reclaim 18200 on the same day. This was followed by a lull patch of nearly two days during which markets looked a bit tentative at higher levels. However, the global markets made a strong comeback …
Future outlook On Monday, our domestic markets started the week on a nervous note citing to sluggish global cues. However, it was more of a consolidation with mildly negative bias. The sacrosanct support around 18100 provided cushion at lower levels which was then followed by some modest recovery in the following sessions. The monthly expiry …
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. …
You may surely find this quite amusing! What are there steps to being profitable in intraday trading? Actually, there is no real guide that can help you to consistently make profits in intraday trading. But intraday trading is all about managing your risk and the returns normally follow logically. While they still cannot guarantee profitability, …
