What is a “Commodity”?, What is a commodity exchange? , What is Commodity Futures?
Global markets and Indian Impact
Global markets went for a toss after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and Bank of America decided to buy Merrill Lynch for $44 billion. Lehman Brother’s announced that it is filing for bankruptcy came after all potential buyers walked away.
Exchange-traded Fund (ETF)
An ETF combines the valuation feature of a mutual fund, which can be purchased or redeemed at the end of each trading day for its NAV, with the trading feature of a stock, which trades throughout the trading day at prices that may be substantially more or less than its net asset value.
Protect your portfolio from market attacks
We have some time or the other, met someone who claimed that their financial portfolio was doing great, until one fine day it wasn’t. All this happens, mainly due to aggressive trading, picking the wrong stock, getting out too early and so on.
Appreciating alternative investing
The most common and traditional form of diversifying one’s portfolio is by diversifying across various asset classes, such as equities, fixed income, real estate, commodities like bullion and crude etc. However, many investors will readily sacrifice this discipline when a particular asset class is faring exceedingly well. As a result, their allocations become distorted.
Mutual funds can ensure a good long-term health of a portfolio
An investor who may like to invest in banking stocks presently will be limited by the number of stocks he can buy. On the other hand, a combination of banking stocks and a banking fund can do wonders both in terms of diversification as well as potential to benefit from the possible rise over a period.
Depend on fund manager for research
Equity investing requires skill both in terms of stock selection and monitoring the progress of the companies included in the portfolio stock prices move to anticipate events as well as reflect the current events.
Begining on the stock exchange?
If you are a beginner trader, investing through an online brokerage firm is the easiest option for you, as they offer comprehensive tools and strategies, as well as discount brokerage fees, and some even offer a certain amount of free trades when you sign up.
Investors should think beyond risk free investment plan
Many investors want to play safe and avoid exposing their money to market-related risks. But an overly conservative investing strategy also exposes you to a type of risk which finally leaves you without having enough money in the future.
DCF to calculate fair value of share price
The discounted cash flow (or DCF) approach describes a method of valuing a project, company, or financial asset using the concepts of the time value of money. All future cash flows are estimated and discounted to give them a present value.
