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GIFT City

India's international financial services centre in Gujarat, where transactions occur in foreign currency under a separate regulator.

Test: the entity or transaction is located in the International Financial Services Centre and regulated by the IFSC Authority qualitative Funds, ETFs & Index Investing

Gold ETF

An exchange-traded fund holding physical gold, whose units track the domestic price of the metal.

Test: the fund holds physical gold of standard purity, and each unit represents a stated weight of it qualitative Indicators & Oscillators

Golden Cross

The crossing of a shorter moving average above a longer one, conventionally the 50-day above the 200-day.

Test: 50-period Moving Average crosses from below to above the 200-period Moving Average qualitative Orders, Execution & Market Structure

Good-Till-Triggered Order

A standing instruction held at the broker for up to a year, submitted to the exchange only when its trigger price is reached.

Test: the instruction rests with the broker, not in the exchange order book, until the trigger condition is met qualitative Financial Statements & Accounting

Goodwill

The excess of the price paid for a business over the fair value of its identifiable net assets, recorded as an asset on acquisition.

Goodwill = Purchase Consideration - Fair Value of Identifiable Net Assets Acquired ₹ crore Fundamental Analysis & Valuation

Gordon Growth Model

A single-stage dividend discount model that values a share assuming dividends grow at a constant rate forever.

Value = Next Year's Dividend / (Required Return - Constant Growth Rate) ₹ Bonds & Fixed Income

Government Security

A debt instrument issued by the central government, carrying sovereign credit and used as the benchmark for all other rates.

Test: the issuer is the Government of India and the obligation is in rupees qualitative Indian Market, Regulation & Taxation

Graded Surveillance Measure

An exchange framework applying escalating restrictions to securities with weak fundamentals or unusual price behaviour.

Test: the security meets criteria on net worth, net income, price-to-earnings, market capitalisation or price movement, placing it in one of six stages qualitative Indian Market, Regulation & Taxation

Grandfathering

The rule protecting gains accrued before long-term capital gains tax on listed equity was reintroduced in 2018.

Deemed Cost = Higher of (Actual Cost) and (Lower of Fair Market Value on 31 January 2018 and Sale Consideration) ₹ Market Psychology & Behavioural Finance

Greater Fool Theory

The idea that an overpriced asset can still be bought profitably if someone else will pay more for it.

Test: the purchase is justified by an expected resale price rather than by the asset's own cash flows or utility qualitative Market Psychology & Behavioural Finance

Greed

The desire for larger gains that leads investors to take risks they would otherwise decline.

Test: position size, leverage or concentration rises without any change in the analysis that justified the original exposure qualitative Market Basics & Instruments

Grey Market Premium

The unofficial price above an IPO's issue price at which its shares are quoted in an informal, unregulated market before listing.

Grey Market Premium = Unofficial Quoted Price - IPO Issue Price ₹ Economy, Macro & Market Cycles

Gross Domestic Product

The total market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period.

GDP = Private Consumption + Investment + Government Spending + (Exports - Imports) ₹ crore Fundamental Analysis & Valuation

Gross Margin

Gross profit as a percentage of revenue, showing what proportion of each sale survives the direct cost of producing it.

Gross Margin = (Revenue - Cost of Goods Sold) / Revenue x 100 % Financial Statements & Accounting

Gross Profit

Revenue less the direct cost of the goods or services sold, before operating, financing and tax costs.

Gross Profit = Revenue - Cost of Goods Sold ₹ crore Economy, Macro & Market Cycles

Gross Value Added

The value of output less the value of intermediate inputs, measured before product taxes and subsidies.

GDP = Gross Value Added + Product Taxes - Product Subsidies ₹ crore Fundamental Analysis & Valuation

Growth at a Reasonable Price

An approach that seeks companies growing above average while refusing to pay a multiple that assumes the growth continues indefinitely.

Test: above-market earnings growth with a PEG near or below 1 and a defensible reason for the growth to persist qualitative Funds, ETFs & Index Investing

Growth Option

The plan option in which a fund retains all gains, so returns show up as a rising NAV rather than as payouts.

Test: no distributions are made; the entire return is reflected in the NAV qualitative Market Basics & Instruments

Growth Stock

A share of a company expected to grow revenue and earnings materially faster than the market, and priced accordingly.

Test: expected earnings growth well above the market average, usually with a high P/E and low or nil dividend payout qualitative Fundamental Analysis & Valuation

Guidance

A company's own published expectation for a future financial metric, such as revenue growth or margin.

Test: the statement is forward-looking, quantified or bounded, and issued by the company rather than by an analyst qualitative Technical Analysis & Chart Patterns

Hammer

A candlestick with a small body near the top of its range and a long lower wick, appearing after a decline.

Test: Lower Wick is at least twice the Body, Upper Wick is minimal, and the candle follows a decline qualitative Technical Analysis & Chart Patterns

Hanging Man

A candlestick with a small body near the top of its range and a long lower wick, appearing after an advance.

Test: Lower Wick is at least twice the Body, Upper Wick is minimal, and the candle follows an advance qualitative Technical Analysis & Chart Patterns

Harami

A two-candle formation in which a small body sits entirely within the range of the preceding large body.

Test: current body's high and low both fall inside the previous candle's body qualitative Technical Analysis & Chart Patterns

Head and Shoulders

A formation of three peaks in which the middle peak is the highest and the outer two are roughly level, joined by a neckline through the…

Neckline = line through the two lows between the peaks; conventional measured move = Head Height above Neckline, projected down from the break qualitative