Alfred Winslow Jones first coined the term “hedge fund” in 1949.
Jones’ innovation was a simultaneously selling and purchase of stocks, thereby hedging some of the market risk. (more…)

Although previously considered to be the exclusive domain of floor traders only, day trading is now an option for anyone speculating on the market. With the advent of improved communication technology, affordable computers, the lure of large intra-day price swings and competitive commissions, day trading is gaining in popularity by leaps and bounds.
Day trading has often been vilified. (more…)

Though it cannot be said in general that mutual funds are always better than individual stocks, it still cannot be denied that they usually involve lower risks, less money and generally yield lower but safe returns. (more…)

Blue-chip stock

a reference to the blue chips used in the game of poker, such stocks are of established companies which have performed well regularly over a considerable period of time. Stocks of companies like IBM, GE are considered to be blue chip stocks. (more…)

Day trading previously had been only for the trading firms or the brokers who dealt in the physical market. But with the advent of the internet and a general advance of communication technology day trading has entered the homes of any interested individual who might have not visited the markets in person ever. (more…)

EPS is the abbreviated form of ‘Earnings per Share’. Of course there are other terms clipped as EPS: ‘Extended Portfolio System’ is one, for example. Those are not our concern here. In issues concerning the stock market, the direct concern is earnings from stocks. We take up EPS as Earning per Share and try to understand what it is. (more…)

A Share or stock is a financial security that makes the holder one of the owners of the company. Along with the other shareholders you become a partial owner of the company and your rights will vary according to the type of share owned. (more…)

The Share market immediately conjures up stories of fortunes made and lost. A share makes the holder a partial owner of the company and different types of shares have different rights associated with them. (more…)