Insider Trading Rules in India
You do not need to be a director to be caught by these rules. What counts as price-sensitive information, who is an insider, and a test to apply first.
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NPS Explained
NPS explained in plain terms - what it invests in, how the allocation works, what happens at exit, and why the balance and the monthly income are different numbers.
Put-Call Parity
The relationship linking a put and a call at the same strike and expiry, what it explains on the option chain, and why it is rarely a free lunch.
Rights Issue in India
A company you own is asking existing shareholders for more money. What each of the three responses does to your stake, and why doing nothing is the worst of them.
How to Review Your Holdings
What to check monthly, quarterly and once a year - and the far more important question of when the correct action is to do nothing at all.
Position Sizing for Options
Margin tells you what a position blocks, not what it can cost. How to size against a defined worst case, and what to do when one lot is already too large.
How to Read Quarterly Results
What to look at in a results announcement, why the year-on-year comparison beats the sequential one, and how to tell a one-off from a trend.
Strike Selection in Options
In the money, at the money, out of the money - what changes as you move across the chain, and why the cheapest option is rarely the cheapest decision.
Market Data Quality for Trading Systems
Missing candles, bad ticks, unadjusted prices and holiday calendars. The failures that make a backtest lie and a live system act on a number that was never real.
Order Rejections and Partial Fills
Most live trading bugs are not in the strategy. They are in assuming an order that was placed was filled. What to handle, and why state must come from the broker.
How to Choose a Mutual Fund
Direct versus regular plans, what the expense ratio actually costs over decades, and why past returns are the least reliable thing on the factsheet.
Futures Basis and Cost of Carry
Why a futures contract trades away from the spot price, what the gap is actually made of, and what it means when a contract trades at a discount.