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A trader from Tripura has seen it all. Jahar Islam Podder, a nursing graduate, left his job, a start-up and even his friends and family just to become a successful trader. And he trades at all costs, in fact, has taken and paid multiple loans.   Very few traders who are not from the trading belt like Gujarat, Maharashtra, and MP; seldom have enough confidence to begin trading in the share mar...

The life of a full-time trader is the dream of many, yet only a few are able to achieve this greatness in the stock market that they can leave behind the careers that they have studied all their life for and turn into a completely dedicated full-time trader. But what is this journey that one undertakes in order to achieve this greatness required to embark on this journey of turning into a full-tim...

He has been called “The God Of Trading”, “The Father Of Price Trading”, and “Creator Of Candlestick Patterns”. Not to forget, he was the first trader in the world to understand and take into account the behavioural or psychological aspect of trading while making profitable trades. We are talking about the one and only, Munehisa Honma. He was the one who devised a concept that today has become the...

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala is a name that is symbolic of the share market success in India. Yet not many have to answer as to his meteoric rise in Stock Market. In fact, not much is known about his childhood, his earliest investments, or his education. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala has been profitable in the market for a long time but then again even Don Bradman has to start at Zero. So how were Rakesh Jhunjhunwal...

CBI's investigation of NSE Co-Location has reached the doors of the Finance Ministry and this is likely to open a pandora's box of new facts in this almost half a decade-old case. CBI has been probing multiple email threads and conversations related to policy and influence in the stock exchange, way back from 2010. This also means that various big names will be getting into the scanner of CBI, and...

Sir Issac Newton, the greatest physicist of all time, was a genius, but a very bad investor. How so, well find out in this episode of Stock Pathshala. Issac Newton was well aware of the stock market and the fortunes people make in it and hence didn't want to miss out on any great opportunities. And when in his time, South Sea stock started to touch new heights, he decided to buy the stock. A few d...

A Singapore man fell for a well-orchestrated forex trading scam in which scammers created an online trading site that used similar platforms found at genuine trading houses. This meant they were paying certain firms for the right to use their custom-built trading software.  So a guy got introduced to this new forex trading investment by a friend, who knew that he was not in desperate need of...

Motilal Oswal has been fined a hefty amount of more than 20 Lakhs by SEBI. This is rare that such an old and traditional broker has been fined such a big amount by SEBI, but what led to all this?   April 2018-Aug 2019 investigation of the operations of Motilal Oswal brought into the picture a margin related fraud, and that has cost Motilal Oswal this heavy penalty by SEBI. But more than the p...

The future of cryptocurrency in India is still not clear. Whether India and the government ever accept bitcoin as a legal currency is still a grey area. So where does India stand on the question of cryptocurrency? Is cryptocurrency ever going to become completely legal or not? We have two sides to the story. One is a lobby of people who believe that cryptocurrency is just a fun time for speculator...

In our all-new series of Daily Market Analysis and Insights for the indices, NIFTY and Bank NIFTY. And for the sole purpose of quality education in the stock market, a live analysis is carried out by Devang Parmar, an up and coming Securities Market Analyst. So what all can this dude tell you from just a glance of those freaky market charts, is beyond doubt, educational. In a brief, Devang's analy...

What is Blockchain and how does it work? Where does this blockchain technology come from and how is this related to distributed ledger technology? Install the Stock Pathshala App Now- http://tiny.cc/qlk1bz So, what is blockchain in simple words? What is the use of blockchain in cryptocurrency?   Do you find yourselves often wondering about these queries related to blockchain? Blockchain techn...

SEBI has directed the Portfolio Management Service Providers to disclose all details related to Assets Under Management(AUM), number of clients,  Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) asked some of them to disclose details related to various schemes as of February 28, 2022, and compare the portfolios of clients on division among various investment approaches as well as details of clients...

This podcast revolves around how a circulated message that Baba Ramdev and his associates at Ruchi Soya have denied having any involvement has led to Ruchi Soya FPO dates to be extended till 30th March. In fact, they have communicated to SEBI that Patanjali had already registered an FIR during the Ruchi Soya FPO days. Well, SEBI did its job, and pretty timely this time, when it asked Patanjali own...

The stocks listed on the stock market can be categorized into various sectors. But what is the basis of this classification of sectors of the stock market? Have you heard of the Defensive, Evergreen, Cyclical, Sensitive sectors of the stock market? Do you know what their definition is and why they are named so? Here we have explained the various sectors of the stock market using a very simple day...

Why is a stock market bubble, like the one that happened in 2008, called a "bubble"? How can this word be associated with a stock market crash? Why is the 2008 market crash called a bubble bursting crash? What is the history of the word "bubble" being associated with the stock market? If you haven't read about this already, you are going to be really surprised by the fact that 2008 was not the fir...

Madhabi Puri Buch, the newly appointed SEBI chairperson in 2022, is not new to the financial world. She has already served in SEBI as a whole-time member. But the times have changed a lot in the past couple of years in SEBI.  Here we are discussing the 7 biggest challenges Madhabi Puri Buch is going to face as the new chairperson of SEBI. This list of course starts with the recent cases of NS...

Suresh Gunda is a successful Trader, who started his trading journey after years of effort, patience, risks, and hard work.  When He found interest in the stock market seven years ago at the age of 19, he dropped his CA study and started learning about the stock market.  He began by studying stocks, then created a trading account and purchased a breakout, eventually losing all of his mon...

As we all know about the conflict between Russia & Ukraine, which led to A WAR Now! The countries that are not even involved in this war are suffering badly with this, the prices of crude oil are increased. as Russia is a key producer of crude oil and natural gas, with pipelines feeding many parts of Europe. If Russia were to shut off the spigot or have its oil infrastructure damaged, it could...

Buybacks are somewhat analogous to buying out a business partner – they allow the remaining partners to own a higher share of the company. But they aren’t exactly buyouts. What is the buyback of shares? A buyback allows companies to invest in themselves. Each buyback decreases the number of shares outstanding, with the company re-absorbing the portion of ownership that was previously distributed a...

Why was Ajay Tyagi not given an extension? What was about Ajay Tyagi that made him different from his several predecessors? Ajay Tyagi led SEBI honorably however at times controversially. And now he is being replaced by the first female chairman of SEBI ever, Madhabi Puri Buch. Ajay Tyagi's name will be associated with someone who was not ever frightened to take on the big names when a violation w...

Mannapuram Financial Limited or MFL has been accused and caught of violating the Insider Trading Rules of SEBI. Markets regulator SEBI has penalized an individual for procuring unpublished price-sensitive information related to the financial results of MFL and communicating the same through a research report.  The regulator levied a fine of Rs 15 lakh on one Mr. Pankaj, according to a Sebi or...

Now a Gujrati sitting in Jamnagar can invest in Google, thanks to NSE. NSE IFSC is a new exchange facility where the topmost US stocks will be listed for Indian investors to earn big profits. But how is it different from India INX, the one made available by BSE? And how can small-time Indian investors buy such high-priced stock of say Google? For now, NSE IFSC will only have 8 foreign stocks of hi...

Here we are with another episode under the series of Terrific Tenacious Traders. This time it's about a Gujarati girl, Mahek Shah, who started her stock market trading journey in her teen days. Mahek Shah was, of course, discouraged by "uncles" who thought what would this girl know anything about trading, that she should just focus on her studies like every "regular" Indian girl. But Mahek Shah wa...

LIC IPO has been in long waiting now. The budget for 2022 finally confirmed that LIC IPO will see the light of the day. And just last week LIC files the DRHP report with SEBI. No doubt this is an exciting IPO, but investors must never be driven by emotions and "JOSH". It's of paramount importance that LIC IPO should be analysed like every other IPO is. And for that, we need to study the DRHP as ev...

Why do we do anything in this world? Such philosophical questions can only be answered by advanced scientific fields of study such as cognitive sciences. And in cognitive sciences also lies the reasons behind all your investment decision-related shortcomings. How so? Well, that's where Behavioral Biases pitch in. We have made a list of 5 such behavioural biases that affect how you invest or trade...