2. Risk (Part 1)
2.1 – Warming up to risk For every rupee of profit made by a trader, there must be a trader losing that rupee. As an...
1. Orientation note
1.1 – A unique opportunity I’m excited about this brand new module on Varsity, wherein we will be discussing two important and closely related market...
19. Government Securities
19.1 – The new beginning In a fascinating new development, NSE in collaboration with RBI has recently made it possible for retail investors to start...
18. Cross Currency Pairs
18.1 – All hail the king of Forex Outside India, the biggest market people trade-in is the Forex futures market. Right from the retail to...
17. Commodity Options
17.1 – Commodity options, finally! My first commodity trade was on pepper futures, and this was sometime towards the end of 2005 or early 2006....
16. Natural Gas
16.1 – History and background I know this chapter on Natural Gas is coming in late; we should have discussed this much earlier, probably when...
15. Cardamom & Mentha Oil
15.1 – Monsoon blues Back in the day, I traded stocks with ICICI Direct. Around the same time, MCX had just started operations, and ICICI...
14. Lead & Nickel
4.1 – Lead – some history, some basics. Would you believe, if I said that ‘Lead’, as in the metal Lead, played a role in...
13. Copper & Aluminium
13.1 – Sumitomo Copper scandal If you are remotely connected to the commodity world, then this is one story you must have heard of –...
12. Crude Oil (Part 3), the crude oil contract
12.1 – The contract Crude oil is the most actively traded commodity on MCX. The combined value of crude oil (across all contracts) traded on...