CRR hiked 50 bps, Markets to Be Volatile

The inevitable happened on Thursday evening. In its customary style, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) hiked the cash reserve ratio (CRR) for banks to suck out money from the system—a move that follows duty cuts and export bans in the war against inflation. What surprised many was the timing of the measure since the market was expecting it on April 2

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Important Rules of Technical Trading

Map the TrendsStudy long-term charts. Begin a chart analysis with monthly and weekly charts spanning several years. A larger scale "map of the market" provides more visibility and a better long-term perspective on a market.

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Before You Make a Trade- Trading Check List

A "Trading Checklist" of prioritized criteria not only will help you decide when to execute a trade, but will also help you identify potential winning trades. What kind of stuff should a trader put on a Trading Checklist? That depends on the individual trader.

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Volume and Open Interest: How to Use it to Trade More Effect

Futures volume and open interest are significant factors to monitor when trading futures, for several reasons. First, let's define the two terms. Open interest is the total number of futures or options

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Aishwarya Telecom Ltd IPO

Initial public issue of 40,00,000 equity shares of Rs. 10 each for cash at a price of Rs. [*] per equity share (including share premium of Rs. [*] per equity share) aggregating Rs. [*] Crores (hereinafter referred to as the issue). The issue comprises a reservation for eligible employees of upto 1,00,000 equity shares of Rs. 10 each (the em

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Coping With Risk and Uncertainty

How do you cope with the risk and uncertainty that are built into markets, and are you coping effectively? In this and my next article, I will be tackling these important questions.The topic of coping actually begins with the notion of stress. Stress is a characteristic set of physiological, cognitive, and emotional responses to threat.

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Sensex is predicted to reach 24 K by March '09

This philosophy is embraced by even the modern day prophets of randomness, Burton Malkiel and Naseem Nicholas Taleb. Mr Malkiel popularised the concept of randomness in the movement of Stock prices in the ’70s. Mr Taleb, now famous for his ‘Black Swan’ theory, concluded that risk models used by brokerages are all useless as they cannot predict the

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