When TCS announced its second round of buyback of shares worth Rs.16,000 crore, it has once again raised the debate on how should companies in …
Month: June 2018
Can you monetize your shares without selling them?
Over the last 10 years you have painstakingly created a solid equity portfolio consisting of a mix of blue chip stocks and quality mid cap …
Short term returns versus long term returns: How to balance?
Returns on investments are for the short term and the long term. Some investments generate trading returns in a very short span of time. Some …
What is the subtle shift in FMCG stocks that is happening…
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 …
Bonus versus stock splits – How they compare?
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 …
How to select stocks for intraday trading?
Intraday trading is all about initiating and closing out your trades on the same day. For example if you buy 500 shares of Reliance in …
10 steps to being profitable in intraday trading…
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 …
7 reasons why options traders get it wrong…
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 …
Common mistakes committed by futures traders…
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 …
Understanding the link between ROE and ROCE in analyzing stocks…
In the world of finance there are a good number of ratios to evaluate companies. There are profitability ratios, efficiency ratios, solvency ratios and liquidity …
