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What Is Margin Trading? Borrowing to Amplify Your Position
Margin trading allows an investor to borrow funds from their broker to purchase securities beyond what their own available capital would permit,…
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What Is Delivery Trading? Actually Owning the Shares You Buy
Delivery trading refers to buying shares with the intention of taking full ownership — the shares are credited to the buyer's demat…
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What Is Swing Trading? Capturing Gains Over Days to Weeks
If you have a day job, swing trading is the version of active trading that can actually fit around it. You look…
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What Is Intraday Trading? Buying and Selling Within a Single Day
Buy at 10:05, sell at 1:40, and nothing is left in your account overnight. That is intraday trading, which most people in…
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Upper and Lower Circuit: What Happens When a Stock Hits Its Price Limit
A stock closes at ₹100. Next morning good news arrives, and by 9:20 it is at ₹110 and refuses to go higher.…
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What Is a Circuit Breaker? How Exchanges Prevent Extreme Swings
A circuit breaker is a regulatory mechanism that automatically halts trading, either for an individual stock or the broader market, when prices…
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Bid Price, Ask Price and the Spread: What You Pay on Every Trade
Open any stock in your trading app and you will see two prices that never quite match. Say ₹342.50 on one side…
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What Is a Stop-Loss Order? Limiting Downside Risk Automatically
You buy a stock at ₹600 and tell yourself you will sell if it drops to ₹550. It drops to ₹548, and…
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What Is a Limit Order? Controlling the Price You Pay or Receive
A limit order is an instruction to buy or sell a security at a specified price or better, giving the investor control…
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What Is a Market Order? Trading Speed Over Price Certainty
A market order is an instruction to buy or sell a security immediately at the best currently available price in the market,…