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Financial Planning Calendar
Planning your financial investments for the whole year at a time can seem frightening. But not if you take one month at a time and spread this important task throughout the year. Here we are presenting a simple money calendar.
January
- The beginning of the year is an ideal time to evaluate 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 >
All about algorithmic trading
The new buzz word among the securities market enthusiasts is ALGORITHMS. Traders across the globe have been affected by the use of algorithms. Positively, if they are doing and obviously, on the negative side if they are not into it. Algo, or system trading (as is known by many in 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 >
Should Age Determine Your Investments in Equity?
Go to google and search for “asset allocation by age”. You will get plethora of asset allocation calculators and heaps of advice on asset allocation based on your age. You will find a traditional rule of thumb repeated quite often - subtract your age from 100 and invest that percent 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 >