If you want to get a practical understanding of how to identify whether there are options buyers or sellers in the market by options chain analysis, this podcast is for you.

In another interesting session as part of the highly popular MarketShala series conducted by Elearnmarkets, Mr. Vivek Bajaj, Co-founder Elearnmarkets, and Mr. Chetan Panchamia, a prolific intraday trader and trainer with many years of experience came together to decode the basics of swing trading and the method of doing so.

Intraday trading is a topic which has intrigued market participants for many years. But did you know that out of every 100 intraday traders, only 10-15 become successful?

In an interesting session as part of the highly popular MarketShala series conducted by Elearnmarkets, Mr. Vivek Bajaj, Co-founder Elearnmarkets, and Mr. Chetan Panchamia a prolific intraday trader and trainer with many years of experience came together to decode the reasons for this and to lay down some ground rules for intraday trading that really work in the markets.

What Is So Exciting About Intraday Trading?

There are three primary reasons why people find intraday trading to be so exciting. This podcast discusses these primary reasons. 

Life is beautiful, but the uncertainties it holds can make it look ugly. In some cases, the uncertainties can lead to critical health problems, resulting in financial burden. One way to minimize the financial impact of such uncertainties is to buy term insurance. An online term plan can help you build a financial safety net for your family.

Life insurance plans, especially term policies, are quite popular among the masses because of its budget-friendly rates of premium payable against a significant life cover.

Another reason behind the popularity of the term insurance plans is the provision of maturity or survival benefits under the policy.

The very nature of a basic online term policy is that it offers life cover but no maturity benefits. It means that you will not get the benefits from your term plan if you survive the chosen tenure. However, there is a silver lining in this aspect.

In an interesting session as part of the highly popular MarketShala series conducted by Elearnmarkets, Mr. Vivek Bajaj, Co-founder Elearnmarkets, and Mr. Chetan Panchamia a prolific intraday trader and trainer with many years of experience came together to decode How to effectively do money management for trading.

When trading in the stock market traders face the problem of how to manage their money or when to book losses.

So let us discuss what money management is and how to effectively manage your trades.

In Investing we have a mix of  5 spices i.e. mantras which will make our investing life happy and successful and is tried and tested over the decades by the legends. The following are the mix of 5 ingredients for successful investing.

It is said – Investing in stocks is like owning a part of a business.

If you want to be successful in business, you must know how to analyze financial ratios and draw a conclusion about the financial health and potential of a business.

To analyze financial ratios for the company on a standalone basis may not have any relevance so it is always advisable to make an inter-firm and intra-firm comparison.

When you come across a situation where you are comparing a company which is in an initial phase earning a revenue of Rs 50 crore and comparing it with a matured company earning a revenue of Rs 5000 crore.

In such a scenario it is not an apple-to-apple comparison. So to analyse financial ratios, make proper comparative analysis meaningful.

When you come across a situation where you are comparing a company that is in an initial phase earning a revenue of Rs 50 crore and comparing it with a matured company earning a revenue of Rs 5000 crore.

In such a scenario it is not an apple-to-apple comparison. So to analyze financial ratios, make proper comparative analysis meaningful.

How to analyze Financial Ratios?

To determine the financial health of a company, one needs to analyze the financial ratios given in this 

There are a number of factors involved in this matter namely education, psychological factors, family pressure etc. No one is wrong or right in this regard and everyone has their own judgment.

The same logic applies to investing as well and here comes the concept of Diversification.

Peter Lynch who said, “Owning stock is like having children, don’t get involved with more than you can handle”.

What Is Diversification?

Diversification implies that instead of putting all your funds in a single security, you should segregate them into a number of securities in order to reduce risk.

Even if one or two of the company goes bankrupt, your portfolio as a whole is not greatly affected. There is a saying- “Never put all your eggs in one basket”.

But there is a very big problem which many of us actually struggle with i.e. how many stocks should we include in our portfolio?

So shall we go for portfolio diversification ( i.e. eggs in many baskets) or concentrating( i.e. eggs in very few baskets) ?

But there is a limit until which it reduces risk and thereafter it becomes constant.

Every person has their own way of thinking and it differs widely.

Value Investing is an investment idea that Ben Graham and David Dodd began teaching at Columbia Business School in 1928, which involves buying securities that appear under-priced.

One of the best times to invest in stocks is when the sector or industry is ailing with problems followed by huge pessimism.

This is the time when values can be picked, thus resulting in multi-baggers.

The general public has a tendency to run before those stocks which are in limelight and highly overpriced, thus paying more than its value and ignoring the ones which are out of flavor like real estate stocks.

Smart investors start accumulating stocks which are currently out of flavor.

I believe there are few hidden gems in the real estate market which people are ignoring currently but it has a potential of yielding a phenomenal return in the coming 1-3 years.

There can be no better piece of information about a company than annual reports. It may look like a collection of pages that companies send at the end of the year. Reading it may seem to be a time-consuming and boring job. However, it is a very valuable piece of information about a particular company.

In the annual report, the company’s management discusses the important aspects of the company like industry performance, its vision for the long term, opportunities and threats faced by the company, the company’s historical performance, etc.

Jim Rogers, one of the finest and most successful investors on Wall Street believes the same when it comes to reading the company’s annual report.

When someone asked Jim Rogers about the best piece of advice he ever got, he said it was the one he received from an old man on an airplane and the advice was “Read everything”.

Jim Rogers talks about how you can set an edge on the vast majority of people on wall street if you simply read everything you can on a prospective investment.

“If you get interested in a company and you read the annual reports, he said you will have done more than 98% of the people on Wall Street.

And if you read the footnotes in the annual report, you will have done more than 100% of the people on Wall Street.

I realized right away that if I just literally read a company’s annual report and the notes – or better yet, 4-5 years of the report – I would know much more than other investors out there” said Jim Rogers.

Some of the important things which we need to focus on while reading the annual report included in this podcast.