Exotic Alternative Investment Ideas

Many a times we read magazines or watch TV serials which showcase to us extra-ordinarily out of world ideas, may be related to travel destinations, cars, buildings etc which have amazing features which a normal person would not even think of desiring in present life. But still they fascinate us More >

Investing in Mutual Funds – Dividend or Growth Option?

Some days back we wrote about tax saving instruments eligible for deduction under section 80C. We presume that most of the risk taking individuals will and should prefer ELSS for investing for saving tax. This gives dual advantage of tax saving and at the same time keeping the returns linked to equity More >

Tax Saving instruments for year ending March 2012

Dear readers,

This is the time of the year when most of us get a call from the HR department to file our investment declarations so that appropriate TDS can be deducted from our monthly incomes. Consequently this is the time when we start thinking about tax planning (or tax saving More >

Using technology for Arbitrage

Technology has had significant impact on human race in almost every sphere of life. So why not use the impact of same on trading. I discussed in brief about using technology for trading purposes in my last article on Algorithmic trading. Continuing on the same lines, I now want to More >

Options glossary

Dear Moneybol readers, I was trying to find something related to nifty options trading today and was looking for the meaning of a particular word related to options trading. This is when I realized that moneybol should have something which explores different terms related to this complex and coveted field More >

RBI: Rates, Banks and Inflation

There could not have been a more opportune time for me to write this article. With every passing day since the last year, Dr Subbarao’s job is getting increasingly tougher. With inflation still keeping up against RBI and absence of significant structural actions on Government’s part to control inflation, options More >

Trading as a Career

If you are considering a career in finance, as many fresh B.Com, BBA & MBA graduates do, and all you have found are placements in the Financial Services sector, then maybe you have not considered a very large area of finance – the Capital Market.

Opportunities in core finance careers in More >

US Debt ceiling – What is it all about?

One of the most talked about news doing rounds in the world economy in the last month has been the US debt ceiling. US is the biggest economy of the world with $ 14.6 trillion of GDP. Nearest competitor China is at $ 5.8 trillion i.e less than half of More >

Open Interest – Essential Trading Tool

Many a times you would have come across statements like “Open interest in XYZ increased 20 percent”, but not many of us are comfortable with the idea of Open interest and many others confuse the same with volume. I will try to clarify this concept through this article.

First let me More >

Ten Credit Card Precautions You Must Take

A credit card is used to borrow money from the bank for a certain amount of time, and then pay it all back when you receive the statement or bill. A credit card is precious, and much more so than carrying around money, because it is attached to both your personal More >

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