STOCK EXCHANGES OF INDIA

The Bombay Stock Exchange in Jeejeebhoy Towers, which is situated on Dalal Street.
BSE
List of Sectoral indices of BSE

BSE 200
BSE 500
BSE Auto
BSE BankEx
BSE Capital Goods Sector
BSE Consumer Durables Sector
BSE Dollex 30
BSE Dollex
BSE FMCG
BSE Health Care Sector
BSE I.T Sector
BSE Metal
BSE Mid-Cap
BSE National
BSE Oil & Gas
BSE Public Sector Undertaking
BSE Power
BSE Realty
BSE Sensitive Index
BSE Small-Cap
BSE TECk

ABOUT BSE and NSE

BSE - The Bombay Stock Exchange one of the Asia's oldest stock exchange, was established in July 9, 1875. It was initially known as "The Native Stock & Share Brokers Association".
The BSE's main index is called "Sensex". Sensex stands for "Sensitivity Index of Share Price". Sensex value is arrived by scientifically calculating using a method known as free float method from taking the share prices of 30 stocks of various companies representing various sectors. Sensex has become the pulse of the Indian Capital Market. BSE has included Power index also recently.

NSE - The National Stock Exchange is India's largest stock exchange. Established in 1993, it is located in Mumbai.
The NSE's benchmark index is S&P CNX NIFTY. NIFTY is a measure of 50 stocks.


 

Popular stock indices of the World

 Nasdaq - US
DJIA - US
S&P 500 - US
FTSE 100 - UK
Hang Seng - Hong kong
Nikkei 225 - Japan
Straits Times - Singapore
Seoul Composite - South Korea
DAX - Germany
CAC 40 - France
Exchange Operations

Both BSE and NSE stock exchanges support online trading systems. The cash and margin orders may be BUY/SELL/SHORTSELL. Short selling means, an investor can sell shares that he or she does not own at the time of placing the order. This is done by the investor, if he or she is sure that the market will fall and subsequently he or she can buy the shares at lower price to make profit.

CAUTION : In general Short Selling is done in early trading hours as some of the trading systems, may not allow the investors till the end of the day to buy back the shares, they may have to square off their positions well in advance, failing which the broker may impose additional charges.

Orders received are matched and executed on a price-time priority basis. When you trade through online terminal, you may come across some options like GTC or GTD for order types, they are nothing but Good Till Cancel and Good Till Date. On the price conditions, you may select Market or Limit. Stop loss is a trigger, which has to be mentioned to minimize the loss while trading, incase the market condition turns against a buy or sell order placed.

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