Browse terms A–Z
A
A yearly fee a depository participant charges to maintain your demat account.
A privately pooled investment vehicle (Category I, II or III) for sophisticated investors, regulated by SEBI.
Application Supported by Blocked Amount — the IPO application method where money stays blocked in your bank until allotment.
B
A prolonged period of falling prices and pessimism in the market.
A measure of how much a stock moves relative to the overall market; above 1 means more volatile than the market.
Free additional shares given to existing shareholders in a set ratio, from company reserves.
The fee a broker charges for executing a buy or sell order.
A prolonged period of rising prices and optimism in the market.
C
The maximum percentage a stock or index can move in a day before trading is paused.
The legal record of trades executed for you on a given day, with charges shown.
A company event such as a dividend, bonus, split, rights issue or buyback that affects its shares.
D
An account that holds your shares and securities in electronic form with a depository (NSDL/CDSL).
Buying shares and holding them in your demat account, rather than squaring off the same day.
A contract (future or option) whose value is derived from an underlying asset such as a stock or index.
A share of a company's profit paid out to shareholders.
E
Ownership in a company represented by its shares.
A basket of securities that tracks an index or theme and trades on the exchange like a share.
The annual percentage a mutual fund or ETF charges to manage your money.
F
Derivative contracts used to hedge or speculate; they carry leverage and higher risk.
The nominal value of a share as stated by the company, often different from its market price.
Foreign and Domestic Institutional Investors — large players whose flows influence the market.
G
An order that stays active until your chosen price condition is met or it expires.
H
Taking an offsetting position to reduce the risk of an existing investment.
I
A benchmark like the Nifty 50 or Sensex that tracks a group of representative stocks.
Buying and selling the same security within a single trading day.
The first sale of a company's shares to the public to raise capital.
A unique 12-character code that identifies a specific security.
L
A classification of companies by market capitalisation; larger tends to be steadier, smaller can grow faster with more risk.
An order to buy or sell at a specific price or better.
Using borrowed funds or margin to increase position size — it magnifies both gains and losses.
M
The money or collateral you must keep to take a leveraged or derivative position.
A facility to buy shares by paying only part of the value, with the broker funding the rest at interest.
A professionally managed pool that invests many investors' money in stocks, bonds or other assets.
N
The per-unit price of a mutual fund, calculated at the end of each trading day.
The launch period during which a new mutual fund scheme is first offered.
The NSE benchmark index of 50 large Indian companies.
The person you designate to receive your holdings in case of death.
O
A contract giving the right, not the obligation, to buy (call) or sell (put) at a set price by a date.
P
Price-to-Earnings — a stock's price divided by its earnings per share, a common valuation gauge.
A professionally managed, personalised portfolio for larger investors, regulated by SEBI.
Offering your securities as collateral to get margin for trading.
R
An offer letting existing shareholders buy more shares, usually at a discount, in proportion to their holding.
S
Investing a fixed amount in a mutual fund at regular intervals to average cost over time.
The BSE benchmark index of 30 large companies.
A government tax levied on the purchase and sale of securities.
An order that automatically exits a position at a set price to cap your loss.
Withdrawing a fixed amount from a mutual fund at regular intervals, the opposite of a SIP.
T
The Indian cycle where trades settle one working day after the transaction.
V
How sharply a price moves up and down over time; higher volatility means higher risk.
Y
The income (such as dividend or interest) from an investment expressed as a percentage of its price.
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