Allotment:
A letter sent to the successful application about allotment of shares/debentures against his application.
American Depository Receipts (ADRs):
A certificate issued in the United States in lieu of foreign security. ADRs are traded in US markets for all intents and purposes.

American option:
A put or call option that cane be exercised any time before the expiration date.

Asset Management Company:
The company that handles day to day management and operations of a Mutual Fund.

Arbitrage
The process of benefiting out of price differential in the same scrip between two markets or because of price difference in the scrip in the underlying market and futures or derivative markets.
Arbitration:
Settlement of claims differences or disputes between member of a stock exchange and another member and between a member and his clients, sub-brokers, etc., through appointed arbitrators. It is a quasi-judicial process that is faster and an inexpensive way of resolving a dispute. The stock exchange facilitates the process of arbitration between the members and their clients in accordance with the bye-laws of the exchange.

Ask
The price which the seller of the security wants to sell the shares owned by him.

Auction:
An auction is a mechanism utilized by the stock exchange to fulfill its obligation to a counter party member when a member fails to deliver agreed securities or make the payment. Through auction, the stock exchange arranges to buy good securities and deliver them to the buying broker or arranges to realise the cash and pay it to the selling broker.

Be a long-term investor:
You should have a long term horizon. Short-term trading will make brokers rich and not investors and the income tax department will also be happy. Mutual funds are diversified and therefore, their gains and losses are likely to be lower than what it would be in case you are investing in an individual security. However, major fluctuations are highly uncommon in mutual funds. So what make sense is to leave your capital in a mutual fund for a long time and let it compound. So the key point is Buy and Hold. It also requires to you do a reality check on yourselves so that you can define your goals and priorities before entering the market.
Start Early:
When you invest in the market is more important than the market timing. Always enter the market with long term thinking. Do proper researches before investing set your priorities and goals, ascertain your risk profile. Also very importantly you should keep yourself abreast with the daily market news. One should not do impulsive purchase allowing emotions overpowering the sense of reason.

Know yourself and then What You Are Buying:
The first step towards achieving your goals would be to know yourself, your risk appetite and accordingly make the investments. Once you have discovered yourself, explore the market and find out the kind of funds available in the market. Firstly, get a hang on the style and strategy followed by a fund by reading the available material. This will help in diversifying the portfolio and also in assessing potential risks. In general, large-cap value funds are less risky than small-cap growth funds.

How many Depositories are registered with SEBI?
At present two Depositories viz. National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) and Central Depository Services (I) Limited (CDSL) are registered with SEBI.

Who is a depository participant?
A depository participant is a person or entity, which is registered with depositories such as NSDL and/or CDSL as also with SEBI and who offers services of holding your shares and effecting transfer (accepting credits in your account as well transferring shares from your account to that of some one else based on your instructions). Thus a depository participant acts as a custodian of your securities held in dematerialized or fungible form and carries out your instruction to transfer the same.

Is it compulsory for every investor to open a depository account to trade in the capital market?
Around 99.9% of the securities settlement takes place in dematerialized mode. Therefore, in view of the convenience in settlement through dematerialized mode, it is advisable to have a beneficiary owner (BO) account to trade at the exchanges and to hold the securities.

How are transfers made by DP?
DPs issue Delivery Instruction Slips (or DIS) to all account holders. These are like cheque leaves. Whenever you want to transfer shares from your account to another account, you are required to fill the relevant details such as security identification number, number of shares you want to transfer, date of transfer, account to which shares need to be transferred etc. and submit this slip to your DP. The DP would then affect the transfer. You can give standing instructions to your DP for all credits to your account, whereby you need not give instructions to your DP each and every time for accepting credit to your account.

Allotment:
A letter sent to the successful application about allotment of shares/debentures against his application.
American Depository Receipts (ADRs):
A certificate issued in the United States in lieu of foreign security. ADRs are traded in US markets for all intents and purposes.

American option:
A put or call option that cane be exercised any time before the expiration date.

Asset Management Company:
The company that handles day to day management and operations of a Mutual Fund.

Arbitrage
The process of benefiting out of price differential in the same scrip between two markets or because of price difference in the scrip in the underlying market and futures or derivative markets.
Arbitration:
Settlement of claims differences or disputes between member of a stock exchange and another member and between a member and his clients, sub-brokers, etc., through appointed arbitrators. It is a quasi-judicial process that is faster and an inexpensive way of resolving a dispute. The stock exchange facilitates the process of arbitration between the members and their clients in accordance with the bye-laws of the exchange.

Ask
The price which the seller of the security wants to sell the shares owned by him.

Auction:
An auction is a mechanism utilized by the stock exchange to fulfill its obligation to a counter party member when a member fails to deliver agreed securities or make the payment. Through auction, the stock exchange arranges to buy good securities and deliver them to the buying broker or arranges to realise the cash and pay it to the selling broker

What to expect from a stock broker? What are your rights?
A stock broker is obligated to give you prompt and efficient service, make timely payment and give delivery of shares. He is required to execute your orders on the stock exchange with utmost sincerity and exercise due diligence. He is also obligated to issue you contract notes indicating your transactions for the day. Insist on this. Always be aware of your rights.
What are your obligations?
As an investor, it is your obligation to carry out necessary due diligence before purchasing or selling shares. Due exercise care and caution and not be misled by rumors and hearsay. Make timely payment to your stock broker in case of purchase of shares and give deliveries to him well before pay-in in case of sale of shares by you. This is important otherwise your positions may be auctioned or closed out and you may have to suffer heavy losses.

At 0218 GMT, the MSCI’s broadest index of Asia Pacific shares outside Japan was up 1.6 percent, while the Nifty India stock futures in Singapore were up 0.41
percent, pointing to a gap up opening for the domestic market. The main 30-share index closed down 0.22 percent at 15,814.72. The benchmark, which fell almost a quarter in 2011, rose 2.5 percent last week. The Nifty closed down 0.1 percent at 4,742.80 on Monday.

STOCKS TO WATCH
* Adani Enterprises and GAIL India after sources told Reuters the two companies along with Gujarat State Petroleum Corp were likely to bid for BG Group’s stake in Gujarat Gas for about $900 million. * Hindustan Petroleum Corp after sources told Reuters the state-run oil marketing company would double the volume of Saudi crude it imports in an annual deal beginning April.
* Kiri Industries Ltd after the company said its board had approved raising up to 3 billion rupees.

* Take Solutions Ltd after the company said it had divested its holdings of 507,909 equity shares in its Muscat-based unit Towell Take Investment LLC.
* GeeCee Ventures Ltd after the company said its board had approved buyback of up to 1.6 million shares at a price not exceeding 65 rupees per share.

1 20 Microns Ltd 20 MICRONS NSE
2 3i Infotech Ltd 3I INFOTECH NSE
3 Aban Offshore Ltd ABAN OFFSHO NSE
4 ABB Ltd ABB LTD. NSE
5 ACC Ltd ACC NSE
6 Accentia Technologies Ltd ACCENT TECH NSE
7 Adhunik Metaliks Ltd ADHUNIK MET NSE
8 Ajmera Realty & Infra India Ltd SH.PRECOATED NSE
9 Allahabad Bank ALLAHABAD BK NSE
10 Alok Industries Ltd ALOK INDS. NSE
11 Ambuja Cements Ltd AMBUJACEM NSE
12 Ansal Properties & Infrastructure Ltd ANSAL INFRAS NSE
13 Aptech Ltd APTECHT NSE
14 Areva T&D India Ltd AREVA NSE
15 Artefact Projects Ltd ARTEFACT PR NSE
16 ARVIND Ltd Arvind Ltd NSE
17 Asahi India Glass Ltd ASAHI IN.GLA NSE
18 Asahi India Glass Ltd ASAHI IN.GLA NSE
19 Asian CERC Information Technology Ltd ASIAN CERC I NSE
20 Associated Cement Companies ACC BSE
21 Axis Bank Ltd AXIS BANK NSE
22 B A G Films & Media Ltd BAG FIL MED NSE
23 Bajaj Hindusthan Ltd BAJAJHIND.LT NSE
24 Balrampur Chini Mills Ltd BALRAM.CHINI NSE
25 Bank of Baroda BNKOFBAROD NSE
26 Bank of India BNK OF INDIA NSE
27 Bank of Maharashtra BANK MAHA NSE
28 Bartronics India Ltd BARTRONICSIN NSE
29 Bartronics India Ltd BARTRONICSIN NSE
30 Bata India Ltd BATA INDIA NSE
31 Bellary Steels & Alloys Ltd BELLARY STEE NSE
32 BGR Energy Systems Limited BGR ENERGY NSE
33 Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd BHEL NSE
34 Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd BPCL NSE
35 Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd BHARAT PET. NSE
36 Bharti Airtel Ltd BHARTIARTL NSE
37 Bharti Airtel Ltd BHARTI ARTL NSE
38 Bilcare Ltd BILCARE LTD. NSE
39 Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Company Ltd BOM DYEING NSE
40 Bongaigaon Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd BONGAIGAONR NSE
41 BPL Ltd BPL LTD. NSE
42 Brigade Enterprises Ltd BRIGADE NSE
43 Cairn India Ltd CAIRN NSE
44 Cambridge Solutions Ltd CAM SOLU NSE
45 Canara Bank CANBK NSE
46 Castrol India Ltd CASTROL NSE
47 Century Textiles & Industries Ltd CENTURY TEXT NSE
48 Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals Ltd CHAMBALFERT NSE
49 Chemcel Biotech Ltd CHEMCEL NSE
50 Cipla Ltd CIPLA NSE

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Do dematerialised shares have distinctive numbers?
Unlike physical shares, dematerialised shares do not have any distinctive numbers. These shares are fungible, which means that all the holdings of a particular security will be identical and interchangeable.

What are forward contracts?
Forward Contracts are contracts where two parties agree to do a trade at a future date at the pre determined or agreed price and quantity. Thus the trade takes place at a future date but the terms of the trade are determined previously.

What are the problems of forward contracts?
Forward Contracts are between two parties, Hence these are individual contracts which are settled between the two parties to the contracts. However these are not traded on the stock exchange. Hence they are illiquid. They also suffer from the counterparty risk as in case of default by one party, there is no settlement guarantee as they are not traded on the exchange.

In order to dematerialise physical securities held by an investor, he has to fill in a DRF (Demat Request Form) which is available with the DP and submit the same along with physical share certificates one wishes to dematerialise. Separate DRF has to be filled for each ISIN Number. The complete process of dematerialisation is outlined below

Do dematerialised shares have distinctive numbers?
Unlike physical shares, dematerialised shares do not have any distinctive numbers. These shares are fungible, which means that all the holdings of a particular security will be identical and interchangeable.