“It’s not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin (1809) All of a sudden, financial markets today are all about algos and routers. Machine learning has an increasingly important role in the calibration of trading decisions in real-time. Most hedge funds and …
In India, the Fintech market was valued at Rs. 1.9 tn in 2019, and is projected to grow to Rs. 6.2 tn by 2025. When we look at the adoption of digital payments, micro-insurance and financial services in India, the upward curve can be spotted even in our everyday experience. However, stock markets form a …
Rule based trading has started gaining traction amongst retail investors fairly recently in the Indian stock market landscape. A few years earlier, the interest in Rule based trading was limited to institutional investors, which deployed cross-skilled teams of developers and market experts to leverage its applications. Today, however, the story has changed. Open APIs built …
COVID-19 vaccine development will rejuvenate the market, prompting analysts to put their bet once again on sectors that were worst-hit by the pandemic outbreak such as aviation, hotel, cinemas, and banks. Recently, the US-based pharma company Pfizer announced that it is close to discovering COVID-19 vaccine and entered successfully from phase II to phase II …
In the stock market, hundreds and thousands of new aspiring investors and traders make their entry, and quite a few lose their way in the process. Stock market advisors like yourself play an important role in not only helping them navigate the often complex realities of the market, but also in helping them achieve what …
Over the last 10 years you have painstakingly created a solid equity portfolio consisting of a mix of blue chip stocks and quality mid cap stocks. Your portfolio value has multiplied and you realize that you have made big gains over the years. Your friends advise you to just take the profits and walk out, …
When we talk of company evaluation, most of us tend to get caught up in the big picture. Capital structure, fixed assets investment, borrowings, net worth, ROE, ROCE; these are the issues we normally consider most relevant to valuation. But did you know that most of these big picture items cannot really be of any …
Digitization of the stock trading industry in India has not only taken giant strides over the last few years but is also here to stay. The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) is ranked third globally for Stock & Index Futures and Options. This has been largely due to the state-of-the-art technology deployed by the …
If you have seen investors getting confused between risk and uncertainty then they are not the only ones. Most people are unable to appreciate the difference between risk and uncertainty. When you invest in the markets or in any other asset class, there is an element of risk and also an element of uncertainty. In …
The long impending Goods and Services Tax (GST) will now see the light of day and be enforced from April 2017 as the Rajya Sabha has finally passed the GST Constitutional Amendment Act. The GST’s enactment would potentially be the most resilient tax reform in recent years as it would do away with the intricacies …
