Market Basics & Instruments
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52-Week High
The highest price at which a security has traded during the preceding fifty-two weeks.
Market Basics & Instruments52-Week Low
The lowest price at which a security has traded during the preceding fifty-two weeks.
Market Basics & InstrumentsBlue-Chip Stock
An informal label for shares of large, long-established, consistently profitable companies with strong balance sheets.
Market Basics & InstrumentsBroker
A SEBI-registered intermediary that routes client orders to an exchange and holds the client's trading account.
Market Basics & InstrumentsBrokerage
The fee a broker charges for executing a trade, levied either as a flat amount per order or as a percentage of turnover.
Market Basics & InstrumentsCapital Gain
The profit made when a capital asset is sold for more than its cost of acquisition.
Market Basics & InstrumentsCapital Loss
The loss incurred when a capital asset is sold for less than its cost of acquisition.
Market Basics & InstrumentsClosing Price
The official end-of-day price of a security, computed in India as the volume-weighted average price of trades in the last thirty minutes.
Market Basics & InstrumentsCommodity
A standardised raw material or primary product that is traded in interchangeable units, such as gold, crude oil or cotton.
Market Basics & InstrumentsContract Note
The legally binding document a broker must issue after each trading day, itemising every trade executed and every charge levied.
Market Basics & InstrumentsCurrency Pair
A quotation of one currency's value in terms of another, such as USD/INR, where the first currency is bought or sold against the second.
Market Basics & InstrumentsCyclical Stock
A share whose earnings rise and fall with the economic cycle, typically in sectors such as metals, cement, autos and construction.
Market Basics & InstrumentsDay High
The highest price at which a security traded during the current session.
Market Basics & InstrumentsDay Low
The lowest price at which a security traded during the current session.
Market Basics & InstrumentsDefensive Stock
A share whose earnings hold up through downturns because demand for its products barely changes with the economy.
Market Basics & InstrumentsDelivery-Based Trading
Buying shares with the intention of taking them into a demat account, rather than squaring off within the session.
Market Basics & InstrumentsDepository Receipt
A negotiable instrument issued in one country that represents shares of a company listed in another.
Market Basics & InstrumentsDividend Stock
A share of a company that distributes a substantial and reasonably reliable portion of its profits as dividends.
Market Basics & InstrumentsEquity
The residual ownership interest in a company: what would remain for its owners once every liability had been settled.
Market Basics & InstrumentsEquity Share
The ordinary ownership share of a company, carrying voting rights and a claim on profits only after every other claimant has been paid.
Market Basics & InstrumentsFace Value
The nominal value assigned to a share by the company at issue, used for accounting and for expressing dividends, and unrelated to what the…
Market Basics & InstrumentsFollow-on Public Offer
A public issue of shares by a company that is already listed, made after its initial public offering.
Market Basics & InstrumentsFree Float
The portion of a company's shares that is actually available for public trading, excluding promoter, strategic and locked-in holdings.
Market Basics & InstrumentsFree-Float Market Capitalisation
The market value of only those shares available for public trading, used to weight constituents in Indian indices.