F & O

Commodities

Any product that can be used for commerce or an article of commerce which is traded on an authorized commodity exchange is known as commodity. The product should be movable of value, something which is bought or sold and which is produced or used as the subject or barter or sale.

January 19th, 2009 | Shabbir Bhimani | 2 comments | Continued

Nifty Listed Companies

When I talk with many people and tell them that its time to invest in Nifty / Sensex listed companies they have fairly little idea about which companies are listed and so thought I would list them here for reference.

December 29th, 2008 | Shabbir Bhimani | 1 comment | Continued

Derivative Trading

Hedgers aim to profit from the very price change that hedgers are protecting themselves against. Hedgers want to minimize their risk no matter what they’re investing in, while speculators want to increase their risk and therefore maximize their profits.

October 8th, 2008 | Shabbir Bhimani | 2 comments | Continued

The real reason why oil prices are rising

It should be pretty clear after the Iraq incident that United States is playing the oil game all over again but in a different way now. And this is the desperate gamble of a country whose economy is neck deep in trouble.

June 27th, 2008 | Shabbir Bhimani | 4 comments | Continued

Futures and Options perspective of stocks

Open interest in RELIANCE has gone up with rise in prices. Open interest in TATASTEEL has gone marginally down with marginal rise in prices. The gain in OI with rise in price indicates as well as drop in OI with fall in price indicates strength in counters.

June 16th, 2008 | Shabbir Bhimani | 0 comments | Continued

Time To Be Fearful?

When one has to deal with shares you should always know that others are fearful or greedy? To know more about others you should know about VIX which is also called as Volatility index. It is an index that is using range of S&P 500 options to find the level [...]

May 19th, 2008 | Shabbir Bhimani | 1 comment | Continued

Lessons from the crash of January 2008

I have also been hit hard by the crash and lost almost 30 % of the total portfolio weight but there are some lessons to be learnt from this which I have started following and just thought would share it here as well.

January 25th, 2008 | Shabbir Bhimani | 3 comments | Continued

Call and Put Options

All stock trading depends on 2 terms. Either you could be bullish or bearish. Depending on whether you are bullish or bearish on the underlying stock, you could purchase either a call option or a put option.

December 24th, 2007 | Shabbir Bhimani | 17 comments | Continued
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