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Equity index and Designing an Index

Equity indexes are weighted baskets of individual stocks. The Equity Index is a value that is proportional to the market value of the individual stocks underlying the index. The value of the index changes as the values of the individual stocks...

Current Trends in Equity Derivatives Market Place

Equity Derivatives fall into following four categories Flow derivatives – vanilla, listed and OTC options, variance, futures and synthetic futures, convertibles Delta 1 – Single Stock, Sector Swaps, ETFs, Pnotes Exotics Convertibles An...

Stock Markets and Status of Economy

 “It is usually agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges” wrote John Maynard Keynes in 1935. Despite this dig, Keynes also recognized that stock markets...

Order Types in Market Place

For effective dealing in markets, resort to order placement is very important. For this, one should be familiar with different types of orders prevailing in different markets. This post, tries to capture some basic details of various orders...

Key challenges in equity markets

Last week, one of my connections raised a question – what are the key challenges in the equity markets – in a forum we share with each other. I was trying to provide an answer to the questions from what I have experienced so for...

Equity Markets (ppt)

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