CA Bigyan Kumar Mishra

Knowing different types of brokerage orders will help you fine-tune your strategy of making money in the stock market. Before taking you to different types of brokerage orders, let us first understand what a brokerage order is. What is Brokerage orders In the stock market, brokerage order means an instruction given by a market participant to a stock broker to buy or sell … [Read more...] about Different types of brokerage orders in the stock market

Every investor invests in order to earn a good rate of return on their capital invested. In the stock market, return is in the form of dividends and/or capital appreciation. Traditional risk free investments do not offer any capital appreciation. By calculating rate of return on your investment, you will be in a position to measure the growth or decline of your money … [Read more...] about How to calculate rate of return in stock market – Explained with example

Every market participants in the stock market, especially beginners, must understand the difference between investing, saving and speculating. You might have already heard of investing, saving and speculating, but, do you know the difference between them. In this article, we will tell you what is investing, saving and speculating, and how they differ from each other. If … [Read more...] about How speculating is different from Investing and Saving

In the stock market, investors use a number of different strategies to minimize risk and to maximize their return. One of such strategies used by many investors is a top down approach to investing. In top down approach, an investor first understands the ups and downs by looking at the macro picture of the economy, and the business and then selects the right company within … [Read more...] about What is Top down approach in investing and how it helps investors

In one of our earlier articles we have discussed major types of risk stock investors should know while investing. You need to know your comfort level of taking risks. Accordingly, you need to formulate your own investing style and strategy to minimize or manage risks. Knowing the risk-return trade off is the most important step towards stock market investing. Remember, … [Read more...] about How to manage risks in the stock market to maximize your return

One of the main advantages of investing in common stock is that it gives greater return in long term than those received from most other investments. However, the biggest fears of market participants in the stock market is chances of losing some or all of the invested amount. As an investor you can lose some of your investment capital if prices of the stocks fall below your … [Read more...] about Different types of risk for stock investors you should know

Market participants buy stocks either for growth or income. It depends on their investment goals. In this article, we will cover the difference between growth and income investing. You will also know when and why growth investing strategies are adopted in the stock market. Growth investing If you invest to grow your net wealth, then it's known as growth investing. … [Read more...] about Income Vs Growth Investing strategy – What is the difference

In the stock market, income investing means you are picking stocks to get regular income, which is known as dividend. These dividend paying stocks are referred to as income stocks. In other words, in income investing strategy, you are building a portfolio of dividend paying stocks specifically tailored to maximize your annual passive income. Income stocks are not growth … [Read more...] about Income investing strategy in stock market – A beginner’s guide

You must have heard about stocks, wall street, dalal street and simply Mr. Market. But, what are financial markets and how they function? In this article, we will let you know different types of financial markets and why they exist. What are financial markets? Financial markets include stock, bond, forex, derivative and commodities markets. It's a place where traders … [Read more...] about 5 different types of financial markets you should know