What Does Stop-Loss Order Mean?In simple words, Stop-Loss Order is an order placed with a broker to sell a share/security when it reaches a certain price as per the risk taking capacity of the investor. A stop-loss order is designed to limit an investor’s loss on a security position. It is solely decided as per…
In addition to the technical terms like Stocks, Shares, Mutual Funds, IPOs, P/E Ratio, EPS, Dividends, and so on…, you must have many a times came across yet another term every other day in the NewsPapers, News, TV Channels called “Futures and Options” But what is this term about? What are the technical aspects and…
This isn’t a type of Shoe Brand that I am going to talk about. With full respect to the genre of this investment tips finance blog, Green Shoe is a kind of option which is primarily used at the time of IPO or listing of any stock to ensure a successful opening price. A green…
Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) is one of those typical investing technical terms that we are unable to understand until somebody quotes an example for us. It?s a bit strange because the explanation undermines the simplicity of the calculation of the growth rate in question. 🙂 Simply put, CAGR is the the fixed rate of…
If there is one number that people look at than more any other number, it is the “Price to Earning Ratio (P/E)”. The P/E is a ratio that investors throw around with confidence as if it told the complete story. Of course, it doesn’t tell the whole story (if it did, we wouldn’t need all…
The market is usually more concerned about the future than the present, it is always looking for some way to figure out what is going to happen in the companies future. A ratio that will help you look at future earnings growth is called the PEG ratio. You calculate the PEG by taking the P/E…
Even comparing the earnings of one company to another really doesn’t make any sense, if you think about it. Earnings will tell you nothing about how many shares the company has. Because you do not know how many shares a company has, you do not know how many parts that companies earnings have to be…
The Sensex is an “index”. What is an index? An index is basically an indicator. It gives you a general idea about whether most of the stocks have gone up or most of the stocks have gone down. The Sensex is an indicator of all the major companies of the BSE. The Nifty is an…