An Interview With a Share Broker

2. What Are The Types Of Risks?

Generally, there are two types of risk: Systematic risk and Unsystematic risk.

Systematic risks are:

• Market risk
• Purchasing power risk
• Interest rate risk

Unsystematic risks are:

• Business risk
• Financial risk
• Liquidity risk
• Default risk

3. Have you worked in sales before?

“I have worked in sales for most of my career. I began in high school, selling magazine subscriptions door to door in residential neighborhoods. After graduating from high school, I worked part-time as a bank teller while attending university. This role required strong up-selling skills. Since completing university, I have worked my way up in the banking world, always within a sales focused role.”

4. How do you research companies and markets?

“To stay on top of my market research, I take an hour every morning before the workday begins. I scour my Google Alerts for any new keyword updates. I also follow a variety of RSS feeds and newsletters, including BDC Market Research, MarketSmith, and MarketWatch. In addition to this, I also subscribe to all newsletters from the top Economists from a variety of financial institutions.”

5. Explain what secondary markets are? What is the difference between the secondary and primary markets?

A secondary market is where the trading of securities is done. It consists of both equities as well as debt markets.

The main difference is that in the primary market, an investor can buy securities directly from the company through the company’s IPO while in the secondary one buy’s securities from other investors willing to sell the same. Equity shares, bonds, preference shares, etc. are available in the secondary market.

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6. When purchasing a stock, what charges are payable?

The charges that are payable while purchasing a stock are

• Stock Brokers
• Commission
• Stamp duty
• Cost of the capital

7. Explain, can you judge whether the stock is expensive by looking at its price?

Looking just at its price, you cannot judge the stock price; a $200 stock can be cheap if the company’s earnings prospects are high enough, while a $10 stock can be expensive if earning potential is low. The P/E ratio is the correct judge of the valuation of the capital.

8. What Is Mutual Fund? State Types Of Mutual Funds Schemes.

Mutual Fund is an association that pools the savings of the investors who share common financial goals. The money collected by the number of investors is invested in different types of financial instruments for the mutual benefit of its members. The unitholders then share the income earned on these investments in proportion to the number of units held by them. A mutual fund has the sponsor, trustees, Asset Management Company, and custodian. Mutual funds schemes are classified on the following basis:

Maturity Period – Open-ended and closed-ended schemes.

Investment Objective – Growth scheme, Income scheme, and balanced system.

Other schemes – Liquid fund, Gilt fund Index fund, Sector fund, and Tex is saving fund.

9. What Are The Basic Principles Of Dow’s Theory?

Dow’s Theory is the oldest and the most known theories of technical analysis. Charles H. Dow proposed it. Dow’s theory has put forward six basic principles:

The averages discount everything.

The market has three main movements. These are primary, secondary, and minor movements.

Lines indicate movements. Such a move shows either accumulation or distribution.

Price-volume relationships provide background.

The price action determines the trend in the market.

The averages must confirm, i.e., the movements of two different market indices must confirm each other to establish the overall trend.

ANALYSIS OF DATA :

There are many benefits to using a stockbroker. Individuals, investors, traders, and businesses can all use help, guidance, and advice when it comes to managing their money. Stockbrokers are regulated professionals often referred to as Registered Representatives.

Advice

A stockbroker can offer information on how to invest, grow, manage, and maintain your money. Stockbrokers are trained in this and have access to some of the best professional advice from some of the most educated and seasoned minds in the financial business.

Trading

A stockbroker can and will execute trades for a client/customer. A stockbroker can submit stock, bond, mutual fund, commodity, option, CDs, and Treasury Bond buys and sells. A stockbroker can also complete a customer tender offers, reorganization items, odd lot offers, and more.

Record Keeping

One of the most significant benefits of using a stockbroker is record keeping. A stockbroker and his firm will keep records of trade confirmations, monthly statements, year-end tax reporting statements, deposits, withdrawals, and any activity that has occurred in an account for at least seven years.

Teacher

Those new, inexperienced, or even experienced can learn a great deal from a seasoned and professional stockbroker. A stockbroker can provide insight and help a client learn about the advantages, disadvantages, risks, and rewards of many different investment vehicles.

Conflicts

If a client has a dispute or complaint with their stockbroker, he can take it up with the firm at which the stockbroker is employed. No charge will go unanswered, and a quick and satisfactory result is the outcome all parties wish for.

Rules and Regulations

Rules and regulations govern stockbrokers, and all must adhere to these standards. Their job is to help you keep and grow your money while acting ethically. Their proper business sense is rewarded in many ways when clients are happy and serviced.

CONCLUSION:

The objective of this study is to develop a theoretical model to explain and predict the stock traders’ behavioral intentions to use online trading by using the concepts of perceived benefit, perceived risk, and trust. This study reveals that perceived threat is a more critical influential factor than a perceived interest in online trading decision making. However, building a risk-free online stock trading environment is much more complicated than providing benefits to customers. Online trading companies need to search for risk-reducing strategies that might assist in inspiring high confidence in customers. This study suggests that online trading companies should consider focusing more on the prevention of intrusion, fraud, and identity theft.

A stockbroker has immense knowledge of the market. He knows when to invest and withdraw. He will help you in every step of trading.

DISCUSSION:

A stockbroker is not your asset manager. He is just an agent who facilitates you to take part in the process of buying and selling stocks. He is not under any obligation to see that you make profits. He earns money both ways, when you purchase or when you sell.

If you want to invest in stocks directly, you have to learn the mechanics and the risks of the process. Frequent buying and selling are called trading. Traders bet on small changes in stock prices and earn returns or losses based on the volume they trade. This is great for brokers. However, this is called speculation for investors. Diligent Investors do not buy or sell frequently. They choose a stock that is likely to gain in value in the distant future based on its past performance, future implications of the impact of trade, and economy in the country on the sector in which the stock belongs. Usually, one sets a target of say 7% returns in say 12 months. This means a stock bought for Rs 100 will have a value of Rs 107 ( the target price ) in 12 months. If the stock reaches 107 in 9 months, you should sell it or reassess its target price. You can also mentally set a price at which you would like to sell the stock if the stock devalues. e.g., if you can take the risk of 5%, you set a stop loss at 95. This will limit your damages to 5% if it happens. The 5% range will let you hold on to the stock during volatile periods in the market when prices move more on momentum than valuations.

SUGGESTION:

When you speak about hiring a stockbroker for Investing I understand that you need an expert to manage your money, for that, I would suggest you go for Mutual Funds as its an investment program funded by shareholders that trades in diversified holdings and is professionally managed. With MF depending on the risk, you ready to take seven common types of mutual funds you could choose from, risk, and always returns up to you to decide.

If you want to learn and Invest, the Best way is to read and gain knowledge, in the beginning, Zerodha has an initiative called Varsity teaches you all about Markets, Trading, and Investing from the basics to the advanced level, Advantage being open source also has experts you could contact if you need help. Download PDF of the course take them offline.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT:

My profound gratitude to all the faculty members of the Department, for their timely assistance and encouragement throughout my research work.

I duly acknowledge the encouragement and support of the research scholars in the department, and all my colleagues and friends.

I thank my friends in the stock market and the management of broking firms who helped me with valuable data in time.

It gives me immense pleasure to take the opportunity to all the people who are directly or indirectly involved in the completion of my project based on An Interview with A Share Broker

With deep reverence, I offer my deepest gratitude _____, without whom this project could not have been fulfilled.

Lastly, I thank Almighty, my parents, family members, friends, and teachers for their constant encouragement and support, without which this project would not be possible.

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