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Monday, February 15, 2010

The Man behind Wal Mart

Samuel Moore “Sam Walton” after leaving the military opened a variety store in Newport, Arkansas. With a loan of $20k and his saving of $5K which he saved during the military.

Coming from a Strong Christian faith Sam pioneered his concept in managing his store especially keeping it open late night and with a wide variety of products and also buying from wholesalers who would sell for cheap price and hence selling for a discounted price and hence transferring profits to the buyers. The one major for his success was the centre location of his retail shop.

Walton later wanted to expand his business and compete with his competitor the Sterling Store, , Walton leased Kroger Store and opened it as an Eagle Department store But the land lord later refused to renew the lease and hence passing it to his sons. This was one of the biggest lessons Walton had learned thought his career.

Walton later moved to Bentonville, Arkansas to expand his business. Walton went on opening more and more store with help of his brothers and family. Later Walton opened a store in Ruskin Heights which was a shopping but this store was not has successful has his other store so he turned down his expansions of his business in Shopping malls and concentrated only in centre location of the city.

Today Alice Walton Daughter of Sam Walton is said to be richest women in the world and along with her Christy

Thursday, February 11, 2010

How to invest in stock market, Stock basics and how stock market works

This blog contains the following topics

  • How stock market works
  • Stock Market Basics
  • How to invest in stock market

How to invest in Stock Market

There are certain rules which the investor needs to follow before investing in stock market.

· The first and foremost rule to invest is that you must be minimum of 18years of age.

· You must have a pan card of your own

· You must have a demat account

· You must prove yourself in identity and in address at a stock brokare.

· You must have a bank account

· There may be certain other rules which are of small or with minor impact to a person who wants to invest in stock market.

· Further there may be rules by the broker side too like minimum balance or minimum number of stock able to purchase

· Amount of brokerage.

Stock Market basics

There are two types of trading

  • Online Trading: it is a portal where stocks can be brought and sold under a stock broker.
  • Offline Trading: it is where shares can be brought and sold by given a phone call to the stocks broker.

Types of investing

· Long Term Investing this is where most of the big shots invest in. this is said to give a lot of profits if invested in right stock. The best stock can give a profit of about 1000% i.e 10 times the invested amount. But if invested in the wrong it can also give a loss of 50% also. But to invest in this type requires a lot of patience in the investor. Because of its huge returns it keeps on checking investor then and then again.

· Short Term Investing is said to be regular market watcher like. But involves a lot of risk, but the ones who check markets regularly do make a lot of profits in it.

· Medium Term Investing this is said to be a way where most of the investors invest in. this takes around a invest time of about of 3 months and It also involves in risk

How stock market works

Stock markets works in simple logic of if a investor wants to sell the stock there will be someone else who would love to buy the stock. To say it in other words if say the current market price is 100 and if a person X wants to buy the stock the market price would go a bit higher and the stock comes in the hand of X. and say if the investor Y wants to sell the stock then the price would come a bit down. Or in other words for every buying of the stock there will some one else wanting to sell the stock.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

The VeeV

VeeV is a liquor brand in America, the success story of VeeV is one of the best which I ever heard of .

It began this way two brothers Courtney Reum and Carter Reum quit their job in Goldman Sacs to start their own Liquor Brand VeeV.

six years ago Courtney and his brother Carter had been to Brazil. Both the brothers had a drink made of açaí berry amazed with the drink thought of starting their own liquor brand.

With no experience in liquor and tried of drinking same old Red Bull but with a lot of innovation ideas thought that they were normal just like the other entrepreneurs.

They began their drink alternate to Vodka and also VeeV had a lot of antioxidants which were also good for the health. The word VeeV stands for natural / vitalizing. Started their business with $250,000. with a lot of loss and panic in the first year the two brothers thoughts of getting some advise for a açaí berry expert. They then friended with Sambazon who were açaí berry experts in America. Then they thought of finding a distillery who would be capable of blending açaí berry to get its extract. With lots of dead phone calls at last found a distillery in Idaho. Then the thorn on the road was the shape of bottle the two brothers found a unique style of bottling in New York glass exhibition. The came the marketing and competition with were already in the market for this they began “ a Dollar per Bottle supports Rainforest” which really helped them in marketing their product and also popularizing in the market. For this they had found a non governmental group in Brazil who would work for this cause.

VeeV is now a company of $10 million and is still growing more and more bigger.

Monday, February 8, 2010

How to mint money with day Trading

Day trading is one of the most famous among all the other type of transaction in recent years.

For day trading the trader has to have a lot of patience and this is most crucial because this involves a lot of risk along with the risk it also produces equal amount of profit to the trader. Day trading allows you to make any number of traction per day.

As I earlier told in this article that a online trader needs to have a lot of patience.

Before investing one has to analyze the performance of the stock a week before investing into the stock.

If you are doubtful of certain stock please get out of it at the right time.

Analyzing and profiting in Oil market

There are a few basic but important steps that you need to follow if you want to make profits in oil market


  • 52week highs and lows: it is the highest and lowest price which the oil prices hit In the previous year.
  • Fibonacci analysis this is one of the most famous among the oil trading every number in the sequence is the result of previous 2 numbers and the resulting number can be converted into their ratios that seem to be important reversal signals whenever the oil rates crosses these Fibonacci ratios it would a buy or a sell signals.
  • Elliot wave principle these are the pattern of five wave 1, 3 and 5 being upward wave and 2,4 being downward wave by recognizing these waves one can find whether the market might move upwards or downwards.
  • Momentum indicator compares the current oil price with that of several years may be 10 yrs or even more by calculating the rate of change between these years divided by price several years ago. Whenever the result crosses 0 it indicates a trade to buy or sell.
  • Relative strength index it compares the upward close to the downward close of the stock.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Short selling

Short selling a share mean you sell the stock before you own. This sounds weird isn’t it but this is the way it goes.

Short selling basically goes this way here the stock actually comes from the broker / brokerage firm who lends you the share in lieu you can sell this share but subsequently you need to buy this share from the market and thus returning back to the brokare.

Here the profit comes only if there is a loss for the share say for instance you had shorted a share for market price 100 and the then closed the short (covering the short) by buying at 98 then you are in a profit of 2 * number of share you shorted. In otherwords to be in a profit your shorting price should be higher and your closing the short (buying ) (covering the short) should be lower.

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Quarterly Results

Lupin Q3 net up 38 pct, in line with forecast

Tata Steel Q3 net up 155% to Rs 1,191.75 cr

Canara Bank Q3 profit zooms 50 pct

Dena Bank Q3 net dips 4 pct to Rs 134 cr

Lanco Infratech Q3 net up 34 pct at Rs 106 cr

Motherson Sumi Q3 net nearly triples as sales surge

BPCL Q3 net down by more than half

Stock Terms and jargons

Active Share: An active share is the one which has a volume in trade (it has changed hands in many), these are the shares which are easy to buy or sell. which also may have some news sticked along with it.

Advance-Decline ration: It is also known as advanced decline ratio. This ratio is used to find whether market is in bullish trend or in the bearish trend, in other words whether the market is in advacing or declining. It is found by dividing the total number of advanced shares to the total number of declined shares. For instance: there are a total of 10000 stocks listed in the market of them 800 advances and 200 declines then the Advance Decline ratio would be 4 and since the ratio. Any value more than 1 would indicate a rising trend (bullish trend) and any value which is less than 1 would indicate a declining trend (bearish trend).

ADR: American Depository Receipt is a negotiable receipt issued by the US banks stating that the number of shares have been deposited with them. This can be directly traded in the stock market. This in turn eases an American investor to buy ADR than to buy an foreign stock in a foreign market. The rate of an ADR is close to the rate of the stock in the home market.

After-Tax:

Aging Schedule

AGM or Annual General Meeting

Amortization

Annual Report

Application-Money

Asset

Asset Coverage

Asset Financing

Auction Market

Auctioning of an Issue

Automated Screen Trading (AST)

Average

Averaging

Averaging In/Averaging Out.