Beginner Q&A on Stock Market

[Mayur09]

What is insider trading in shares? I was reading one news about one guy, who did insider trading, so just curious about this term :-).

[PolicyWala]

What is insider trading in shares?

Insider trading is the trading of a company's stock by individuals with potential access to non-public material information about the company. Eg. If a company's stock is trading at 500 and someone learns that the company will be taken over for 650 a share, that information would be material.

[Sharma]

What is Stop Loss in shares? How to put stop loss in ICICI Direct?

[Policy_expert]

What is Stop Loss in shares? How to put stop loss in ICICI Direct?

A stop-loss limit allows you to specify the minimum price at which you are willing to hold a stock and trigger the sale of the shares when they reach, or fall below, the price you've set. regarding your ICICI Direct query, you can check here - https://secure.icicidirect.com/tradi...radinghelp.asp

[Sharma]

Thanks Policy_Expert. Buy the info I am looking for is from delivery shares perspective not from futures perspective. In the above link ICICI Direct explained on futures way.

Thanks again,
Sharma

[CopyCat]

Thanks Policy_Expert. Buy the info I am looking for is from delivery shares perspective not from futures perspective. In the above link ICICI Direct explained on futures way.

Thanks again,
Sharma

Check with ICICI Direct customer care, they are in best position to explain your query.

[RajS]

Is there is difference in Shares and Stock? Most of the people use them interchangeable. It's silly one question, but if any expert help me out in understanding this would be great.

[Investor]

I am new to investment, have two basic queries on demat.
1- What is demat?
2- Is demat compulsory?

[v.r.s.nathan]

1- What is demat?

A demat account, the abbreviation for dematerialised account, is a type of banking account which dematerializes paper-based physical stock shares. The dematerialised account is used to avoid holding physical shares: the shares are bought and sold through a stock broker.

2- Is demat compulsory?

If you want to trade than demat account is mandatory. If you just want to buy and keep shares, than you can keep as a paper-based physical stock shares (without demat account).