Option chain is a very popular tool for data analysis among derivatives traders. It is available on the NSE website and there are other software too offering this feature, writes Prashant Shah, Co-founder & CEO Definedge Securities 

Since 2021, several nations, both developed and developing, have been experiencing a period of high inflation. Much of this has to do with the vast sums of money pumped into the global economy to prop it up during the COVID-19 pandemic. Inflation has made a comeback between the highs and lows of the pandemic and the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. Over the past few months, India has witnessed a jump of 7 per cent in retail inflation.

As per IMF, India shall become 5th largest economy in FY-2023 and is likely to be 3rd largest in FY-2028 surpassing the UK, Japan and Germany. This is because, in the past several decades, India’s GDP growth has been higher than in these nations. Currently, India’s GDP growth is the highest in the world despite its decline in the past 6 years. In such a fast-growing economy, falling employment and the consequential rising poverty are indeed unusual. Therefore, India must revisit its growth model. The benefits of growth must flow to the population at the bottom of the pyramid. For this, let’s peep into the basics of GDP, as invented by Simon Kuznets, a Nobel laureate of USA, in 1934-35.  

Every investor looks for ways to preserve and increase their portfolio value from time to time. But for that to happen, you need to save money regularly and invest consistently. Depending on the risk tolerance, time horizon, and the amount of principal that can be invested, there are many ways to grow an investment portfolio. Here are some of the main ways to boost your portfolio returns.

Investing in the share market during an inflationary period can boost corporate profits, especially when companies pass on higher input costs to customers through price hikes. It also means that for investors it is more important than ever to start putting their long-term savings in the stock market.

Investments as a segment have always been there in the form of land, gold, stocks, mutual funds and investing in other people's businesses/startups as an asset class. Angels are those who have additional cash in hand and who want to invest it in other vehicles for rewarding arrangements. While earlier investments in other people’s businesses were made with lower risk appetites, in today’s time, the market has opened up and so has the risk appetite. But the startup investment asset class is a different ball game. Very rewarding but very risky, if essential elements are overlooked.

Picking a stock is very difficult, especially the kind of stock that fulfills investors’ desires & requirements and appreciates continuously on a YoY basis. You might be thinking that for figuring out such kinds of stocks, investors require a lot of analysis, valuation model, complex matrices, the study of history, etc.

Weakness with volatility continued in the market on Thursday on the day of weekly F&O expiry and Nifty closed the day lower by 88 points. After opening with a negative note, the market showed high volatility for the day. Upside recoveries in between were met with selling pressure at intraday highs. The opening downside gap has been filled.

After showing choppy movement with negative bias on Friday, Nifty continued with range movement on Monday and closed the day higher by 126 points. After opening with a positive note, the market extended gains in the early to mid part of the session. Minor intraday dips have been bought into and Nifty closed near the highs.

After showing a sharp upmove on Tuesday, Nifty slipped in to weakness on the back drop of weak global cues on Thursday and closed the day lower by 216 points. After opening with a negative note, the market made an attempt of intraday upside recovery in the early-mid part of the session. The upside recovery attempt has failed to sustain in the mid to later part of the session and the market closed near the lows.

From its modest beginning as an open outcry floor trading exchange in the late 1800s to becoming only the second country after China to start the process of transitioning to a T+1 equity settlement mechanism in 2022, the Indian stock market has come a long way to emerge as one of the largest market ecosystems in the world. Undoubtedly, technology has been the key driver of the dramatic transformation in the brokerage industry. 

The recent consultation paper by SEBI to regulate Algo trading identifies its merits by stating that it automatically monitors live stock prices and initiates an order when the criteria are met. This frees the trader from having to monitor live prices and initiate manual order placement. So, there is no doubt that a rule-based approach to trade using API integration with brokers enables traders to manage risk more efficiently and avoid emotional decisions that occur in manual trading.