Share market basics
Holding a trade for several days to a few weeks, usually based on daily charts and larger trends, between swing trading and long-term investing.
Positional trading means holding a position for days to weeks, sometimes a couple of months, riding a larger move rather than daily fluctuations. Traders use daily and weekly charts, hold through minor pullbacks, and set wider stop losses than intraday traders. In Indian usage, positional often refers specifically to carrying F&O positions overnight, as opposed to intraday MIS trades. Suppose you buy SBI at ₹780 expecting a move toward ₹850 over the next month, with a stop at ₹750; you check the chart once a day rather than watching every tick. Positional trading suits people with jobs, because it needs less screen time. The trade-offs are overnight and gap risk, and, in futures, the daily mark-to-market. Margins for overnight F&O are higher than for intraday. Delivery equity positions carry no leverage, which makes them the gentler way to start.
VideoA share is a portion of a company. The share market is where those portions change hands. Here is how it works, what you can trade in it, and why most people who trade actively lose money.
VideoThe share market runs on two activities that look alike and are nothing alike. Investing is owning a business for years. Trading is profiting from price moves over hours or weeks. Mixing them up is behind most early losses.
VideoTrading comes in a few distinct forms, and the one you pick decides how much time, capital and stress it takes. This lesson explains intraday, swing, positional, futures and options trading with Indian examples.
