Share market basics
The Securities and Exchange Board of India, the regulator of stock exchanges, brokers, mutual funds and advisers, whose rules protect investors.
SEBI, the Securities and Exchange Board of India, is the statutory regulator of the Indian securities market, established in 1992. It licenses and supervises exchanges, brokers, depositories, mutual funds, portfolio managers, research analysts and investment advisers. It sets margin rules, disclosure requirements and listing norms, and acts against fraud, insider trading and unregistered tip sellers. Only a SEBI-registered investment adviser or research analyst may legally give personalised buy or sell recommendations for a fee; a trading academy that teaches concepts is an education provider, not an adviser, and META does not give stock tips. SEBI runs the SCORES portal for investor complaints against intermediaries. Before paying anyone for advice or calls, check their registration on SEBI's website. SEBI also publishes research on retail outcomes; its studies have found that most individual F&O traders lose money.
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.
