Terms starting with S
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Scalping
Trading for very small price increments many times a day, holding each position for seconds to minutes.
Funds, ETFs & Index InvestingScheme Categorisation
SEBI's framework defining standard mutual fund categories with mandated investment characteristics.
Corporate Actions, Dividends & GovernanceScheme of Arrangement
A court-supervised process under company law for restructuring a company's capital, mergers, demergers or compromises with creditors.
Indian Market, Regulation & TaxationSCORES
SEBI's online complaint redress system, through which investors lodge and track grievances against market intermediaries.
Indian Market, Regulation & TaxationSEBI
The Securities and Exchange Board of India, the statutory regulator of India's securities markets.
Indian Market, Regulation & TaxationSEBI Act
The 1992 statute that established SEBI as a statutory body and set out its powers over the securities market.
Market Basics & InstrumentsSecondary Market
The market in which already-issued securities are traded between investors, with no money flowing to the issuer.
Indian Market, Regulation & TaxationSection 80C
The Income Tax Act provision allowing a deduction for specified investments and payments, capped at ₹1.5 lakh a year.
Economy, Macro & Market CyclesSector Rotation
The tendency for different sectors to lead at different points in the economic cycle, and strategies that attempt to follow it.
Funds, ETFs & Index InvestingSectoral Fund
An equity fund that invests at least 80% of its assets in companies from a single sector.
Indian Market, Regulation & TaxationSecurities Appellate Tribunal
The statutory tribunal that hears appeals against orders of SEBI and certain other financial regulators.
Indian Market, Regulation & TaxationSecurities Lending and Borrowing
An exchange-regulated mechanism through which securities are lent for a fee and returned on a set date.
Financial Statements & AccountingSecurities Premium
The reserve holding the amount received on share issues in excess of face value.
Indian Market, Regulation & TaxationSecurities Transaction Tax
A tax levied on the value of transactions in securities on Indian exchanges.
Market Basics & InstrumentsSecurity
A tradable financial instrument representing ownership, a creditor relationship, or a right relating to either.
Financial Statements & AccountingSegment Reporting
Disclosure of revenue, results and assets broken down by the business or geographic segments management uses to run the company.
Market Psychology & Behavioural FinanceSelf-Attribution Bias
The tendency to credit successes to one's own skill and failures to external circumstances.
Indian Market, Regulation & TaxationSensex
The BSE's benchmark index of 30 large Indian companies, weighted by free-float market capitalisation.
Orders, Execution & Market StructureSettlement Cycle
The number of trading days between a trade's execution and the actual exchange of securities and money.
Market Basics & InstrumentsShare
A single unit of ownership in a company, giving its holder a proportional claim on the company's profits and on whatever is left over if…
Corporate Actions, Dividends & GovernanceShare Buyback
A company purchasing its own shares from shareholders, reducing the share count.
Financial Statements & AccountingShare Capital
The portion of shareholders' funds representing the face value of shares issued and paid up.
Market Basics & InstrumentsShareholder
A person or institution that owns shares in a company and therefore holds part of its ownership.
Financial Statements & AccountingShareholders' Equity
The owners' claim on the company in the accounts, equal to share capital plus accumulated reserves.