Hey
If you dont mind...could you help me and guide me with the whole equity markets and investment procedure..from the start...ive always found this market extremly interesting, but never really found the right sort of guidance or direction...and also, is trading the same as what you do??
Regards
Veeru
Student of School of Inspired Leadership
Hmm.. good to see you want to learn about this market..
to ans your last Q, yes trading means you do buy/sell for short term profits..
There are different kind of trading in the market.. I prefer only Option trading wich has limited downside and unlimited upside... How? We will cover it once you understand the basics..
Lets start with the concepts in the market for investor for long term..
There are some terms that you need to understand for this market.
First of all, in India there are two main stock exchange
1. Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)
2. National Stock Exchange (NSE)
( I will not be giving you every minute detaile about everything as I expect you to do some research, but I will tell you what you need to research about)
So first research about these two stock exchange like history, what are the instruments and all.. (This will give you fair idea about the things)
Now lets go to the market

Both the stock exchange have their own Index
1. SENSEX is of BSE
2. NIFTY of of NSE
Now how these Index is made/composed?
SENSEX includes 30 stocks in it with different weight ages.. (Search for which stocks are included in it on BSE website)
These 30 stocks make up the index and according to the movement and weight of that stock in the index, Index will move up or down..
(The stock included in index are having highest market share in their sector )
Now the same thing with NIFTY but it includes 50 stocks in it. (Find out which stocks are in it)
Now as you know about two Index which are flagship for Indian market, lets look at the investment procedure and formalities to be done.
To buy/sell in the market you must have DEMAT account.
DEMAT account is a dematerialized acoounts which will hold your shares/stocks in dematerialized form. (Go and google when the BSE/NSE started this dematerialized form of shares and what are the benefits)
To open a demat account you need following things
1. PAN card
2. A bank account with Cheque book.
3. Residential proof
Now if you have these things go to any broker like Angel, ShareKhan, Reliance money etc.. and ask for a demat account. They will be more than happy to open your account without any hassle..
Once you have account you will be able to buy/sell in the mrket.
Now there are two markets.
1. Primary market- that is the market where the Initial Public Offer (IPO) comes for listing on the market.
2. Secondary- that is where we buy/sell shares
This is something like opening to this market.. I will cover everything but let this post complete here and let me know if you have any questions from this post. I'l take your questions and then will continue.