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PE ratio i.e., price to earnings ratio is an indicator of the market price of a share versus it’s earnings. P/E ratio has several variations and is used by investors to gauge how much they should invest in a particular company. 

Coffee can investing refers to the “buy and forget” approach to investing in the stock markets. In this strategy, an investor buys a stock at a certain price and then holds it for a long term, at least ten years, to generate profits. The term “coffee can investing” was first coined by Robert G. Kirby in 1984.

In the Union Budget 2022, the government has extended “bonus stripping” to stocks, which was so far applicable only to mutual funds units. Here’s how it will affect investors.

Financial instruments form the basis of all monetary possessions in the modern world. The various financial instruments have different pros and cons, but the base principle remains the same. All financial instruments provide financial assets to one party and financial liabilities to the other.

Trading in the stock market requires skilful execution. Placing an order at the market’s best available price will yield you expected returns. Thus, you should know when to place an order for the sale-purchase of stocks in the market. There are a few basic order types to help you get through the techniques of stock trading. Want us to help you get better at trading? Click here to read what are the order types in the stock market.

Intraday trade involves the trading of shares within the span of a single day. As an intraday trader, if you have bought a certain number of a company’s shares at the start of trade on a particular day, you have to sell the same number of the company’s shares before the trading day ends to make any profit. This is called “squaring off”. If you fail to do this, the broker will square-off the transaction and charge you a certain fee called “square-off charges”.