Components of Your Long-term Financial Planning
Every person should have a strong financial planning to meet the future requirements of his life. Financial planning does not mean putting all your money in bank deposits or buying real-estate. It is about catering to all your financial needs in your life. Some of the key components of your financial planning are explained below:...
Should you Buy Trading Tips and Indicators from Trading Gurus?
I was recently reading a book on trading called ‘Mastering the Trade’ written by a professional trader based in USA called John Carter. The books provides a number of insights into the world of trading. The book starts with giving into market internals and gives a through into trading psychology. The author then continues with...
Tata Elxsi: Emerging Player in a Niche Market
One of the key rules of investing is to find to companies that have high growth potentiality in the future. Investors should invest in such companies before their market capitalization is still very low. Such companies should not be covered much by analysts and stock brokers. Investments by institutional investors like mutual funds and pensions...
Advantages of Trading in Commodities
For all those who start their trading journey, the primary question is selecting the type of security they should be trading. Contrary to the Indian markets, which are dominated by trading in equities, currencies and commodities have a big share in the trading pie in global markets. In fact, currencies are the most traded asset...
A Case for Discount Brokers
Busy traders end up paying a lot brokerage to their brokers. A good way of saving on their brokerage is to open a trading account with discount brokers like RKSV and Zerodha. Discount brokers offer ultra-cheap brokerage rates. Some of them even offer unlimited trading for a fixed brokerage every month. Discount brokers manage to...
Things to Keep in Mind Before Selecting your Stock Broker
Since most of the financial products are now sold in the electronic form, holding them in the long-term requires demat account. Apart from stocks, many other financial products like insurance, mutual funds, and bonds are now sold in the dematerialized form. Government is also thinking of making it possible to hold property documents in the...
Is Gold a Good Investment Option in the Long Run
Gold is one asset class which has really attracted lot of attraction from investors both in India and other countries in the recent past. The global economic crisis of 2008 and the following economic downturn made investors to select safer asset classes as the values of financial assets like equity has dwindled. The change was...
How to Save For Your Child’s Future
Saving for you child’s future is important in order to meet all his/her needs like education and marriage. And just like savings for any other purpose, starting early can give good results in the long term in the case of savings for your child’s future. Unlike savings for your own future, saving for your child’s...
Tips for Creating and Managing Your Emergency Fund
Managing your finances doesn’t just mean planning in the long-term. It also includes catering to the financial needs in the short term. While your routine expenses are covered by your regular income, managing the unforeseen emergencies is the tricky part. Everyone should have an emergency fund set aside to meet the financial emergencies effectively. Financial...
Should You Have Your Online Investment Account With Your Bank or a Stock Broker
Most of the modern banks have their own stock broking arms. These banks have the requisite permits for operating stock broking business from the regulators. Some banks even offer many of its financial services like life and general insurance through these online investment accounts. Users can open their investment accounts with the banks where they...
