11. Corporate actions and impact on stock prices
11.1 – Corporate Actions Corporate actions are financial initiatives undertaken by a company that results in a change to its stock price. There are different...
10. Clearing and Settlement Process
10.1 – Market structure The topic of clearing and settlement is super important to understand as it gives you a sense of the movement of...
2. Regulators, the guardians of capital markets
2.1 – What is the stock market? In the previous chapter, we established that investing in equities is vital to generate inflation-beating returns. Having said...
9.1 – Trading Terminal
Over the last few chapters, we have understood several things related to the stock markets. It is time for us to figure out how one...
8. Commonly Used Jargons
This chapter aims to help you familiarize yourself with a few commonly used market terminologies and their concepts. Let’s get started. Bull Market (Bullish) – If you...
7. The Stock Markets Index
7.1 – Overview If I were to ask you to give me a real-time summary of the traffic situation in your city, how would you...
6. The Stock Markets
6.1 – Public Limited company Having understood the IPO process and the circumstances that lead a company to offer its shares to the public and...
3. Market Intermediaries
3.1 – Overview Many corporate entities work in tandem to ensure transactions in the market flow smoothly. Right from the time you log in to...
1. The Need to Invest
1.1 – Why should I invest? Before we address the above question, let us understand what would happen if one chooses not to invest. Assume...