What are 'sensex' and 'nifty' in stock market and the basis of their calculation?
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An abbreviation of the Bombay Exchange Sensitive Index, Sensex is the benchmark index of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). It is composed of 30 of the largest and most actively-traded stocks on the BSE.\n\nS&P CNX Nifty is a well diversified 50 stock index accounting for 25 sectors of the economy
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The Sensex is an index of companies traded on the Bombay Stock Exchange.  The sensex is a basket of 30 stocks representative of large companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange.\n\nSo, you cannot buy the "Sensex" but you can buy and sell the shares of the constitute 30 companies.\n\nTo trade stocks in a publicly listed company you need to have a broking account.\n\nThe prices of te stocks go up and down through simple supply and demand, much like the price of fish in a fish market where you have competing buyers and sellers.\n\nThe factors that affect an individual buyer or seller are too numerous to mention.  One buyer might think the company has good future prospects.  Another buyer may be a retirement fund that has to buy stock because more money has been injected into the fund.  One seller may be concerned about a recent news announcement.  Another seller may be a trader simply wishing to sell to bank some profit.  Another seller may simply want the cash to invest in something else.\n\nThe price is simply the overall market perception of that stock.
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The Sensex is an "index". What is an index? An index is basically an indicator. It gives you a general idea about whether most of the stocks have gone up or most of the stocks have gone down. \n\nThe Sensex is an indicator of all the major companies of the BSE. \n\nThe Nifty is an indicator of all the major companies of the NSE.  \n\nIf the Sensex goes up, it means that the prices of the stocks of most of the major companies on the BSE have gone up. If the Sensex goes down, this tells you that the stock price of most of the major stocks on the BSE have gone down. \n\nJust like the Sensex represents the top stocks of the BSE, the Nifty represents the top stocks of the NSE. \n\nJust in case you are confused, the BSE, is the Bombay Stock Exchange and the NSE is the National Stock Exchange. The BSE is situated at Bombay and the NSE is situated at Delhi. These are the major stock exchanges in the country. There are other stock exchanges like the Calcutta Stock Exchange etc. but they are not as popular as the BSE and the NSE.Most of the stock trading in the country is done though the BSE & the NSE. \n\nBesides Sensex and the Nifty there are many other indexes. There is an index that gives you an idea about whether the mid-cap stocks go up and down. This is called the “BSE Mid-cap Index”. There are many other types of indexes.\n\nThere is an index for the metal stocks. There is an index for the FMCG stocks. There is an index for the automobile stocks etc.
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It is the benchmark index for the Indian stock market.\n\nKind of like the DOW or S&P 500.
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Stock- It enables companies to raise money thru sharing equity and it enables the public to participate in the well being and management of a company.\n\nBond- It enables companies to raise money thru borrowing money and it enables the public to buy debt instruments at a better yield than US Government bonds.\n\nOption- It enables the buyer to participate in the price move of an underlying security for a smaller entry cost than buying the security itself. It enables the seller to generate slight income from an otherwise static position.\n\nFuture- It enables suppliers to lock in sales prices of commodities at some future date...turning a variable revenue into a fixed revenue. It enables buyers to lock in a price paid at some future date...turning a variable expense into a fixed expense.\n\nEssentially financial instruments enable the transfer of capital and risk to occur.
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S&P CNX Nifty is a well diversified 50 stock index accounting for 22 sectors of the economy. It is used for a variety of purposes such as benchmarking fund portfolios, index based derivatives and index funds.\n\nS&P CNX Nifty is owned and managed by India Index Services and Products Ltd. (IISL), which is a joint venture between NSE and CRISIL. IISL is India's first specialised company focused upon the index as a core product. IISL have a consulting and licensing agreement with Standard & Poor's (S&P), who are world leaders in index services. \n\nThe average total traded value for the last six months of all Nifty stocks is approximately 55.15% of the traded value of all stocks on the NSE \nNifty stocks represent about 59.49% of the total market capitalization as on Sep 29, 2006. \nImpact cost of the S&P CNX Nifty for a portfolio size of Rs.5 million is 0.06% \nS&P CNX Nifty is professionally maintained and is ideal for derivatives trading.
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Small Cap are those companies which have market capitalization of less than Rs.500 crores.\n\nMarket capitalization = No. of shares outstanding * market price per share
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You are most likely thinking of the Nasdaq and Dow Jones Indicies.\n\nThese are not stocks.\n\nThey are indicies of a variety of stocks that investors use as a kind of barometer for the stock market in general.\n\nThere are only 30 stocks in the DJIA (Dow Jones Industrial Average) and over 3000 companies in the Nasdaq Composite index.\n\nWhile these indicies aren't stocks in and of themselves, you are able to buy ETFs (Exchange traded funds) that are copies of the indicies.  That's kind of like "buying" the index itself and performance of the ETF will mirror that of the index.
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depends on how well the market is doing. If the total niumber of people buy more then they sell, the sensex raises. IF the opposite occurs, the market goes down.
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It is quite good..but what are the comm % u r getting right now? With the Sensex zooming..and so many new schemes coming up..u can make good money by selling units..but u got to have a strong circle of HNI investors..else retail subscription is small money..\n\nhope that answers ur query..else contact me..
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OK, I'm out of the loop. What is sensex?
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from bseindia.com > bhavcopy \n\ndetails on tech analysis visit my answers
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I think Indian market is a story of non stop upward march save some corrections/profit taking on the way. All fundamentals of the economy and companies are on positive side plus small investors are equally involved so as the mutual funds and FIIS. Select the right company, be care full, book profit and go ahead.
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I think a lot of steam is left in Indian Stock Market..We have seen the tremendous "Bull-Run" in past few months..I believe its not just the charge of Bulls, but it has a fundamental base as Indian Economy is growing in all the sectors and not just limited to IT in which we still have command over the world..Now the whole world is watching India as a great opportunity..However we have stiff competitions from China in some sectors..but still India has a great future ahead..\nHowever at this point of time one need to be very careful regarding Stock Market..we may see some corrections but again one should use that as opportunity..At present buying is happening not only from FIIs but our own Indian Institutional Buying is making a lot of difference..n also retail investors have a great share of it..Huge buying by Mutual funds has also boost up a lot of confidence in the market..time to time actions taken by SEBI (as recently in DMAT scam) has also played a great role to boost the confidence of the investors..\nSo be cautious, move with the steam of market n use the opportunity carefully..Indian Stock Market has a long way to go..
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To get indepth knowledge of how stock market works you will have to devote time and have patience.\nStart watching CNBC and NDTV Profit and start reading Economic Times.\nSlowly you will be able to understand all the factors which drive a share market and also learn about the performances of individual stocks.\nAlso on net you can visit www.moneycontrol.com and www.profitfromus.com . These sites ahve Q&A sections and Blogs which will help you in better understanding on the subject.
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Profit sales plunge Sensex down 99 points to 4617\n\nThe Sensex of the Bombay Stock Exchange went into a tail-spin today and plunged by 99 points on profit-taking in key scrips, notably those belonging to the infotech and pharma sectors.\n\nThe BSE-30 Sensitive Index ended 98.99 points lower or 2.09 per cent at 4617.82 points as compared to the previous close of 4716.81 points. Opening at 4703.33, the Sensex witnessed a high of 4721.78 and a low of 4586.26. The Sensex, which surpassed yesterday's closing level during the day, plummeted on account of profit-taking in key scrips.\n\nForeign institutional investors off-loaded subsstantial quantity of infotech, pharma, cement and diversified companies' stocks, marketmen informed. Infotech and pharma scrips, which had led yesterday's rally, were on the downward mode.\n\nInfosys Technologies, which reached its 52-week high of 5,518 in the last trading session plummeted by Rs 450 to close at Rs 5,065. The company's ADR listed on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange of the United States fell from a high of $ 118 registered yesterday to $ 90.\n\n''Much of today's fall was fuelled by speculative selling pressure from FIIs. There was also some selling in index scrips by domestic financial institutions,'' said a broker. FIIs sold in Infosys, Pentafour Software, Satyam Computers, ITC and Hindalco counters.\n\nThey reportedly bought the Glaxo scrip. Among the FIs, the Unit Trust of India was a major seller in select scrips.\n\nMirroring the downtrend, the BSE-100 index fell by 41.84 points to end at Rs 2002.60 from the last close of Rs 2044.44. The BSE-200 and Dollex indices ended 9.71 and 3.66 points lower at Rs 457.92 and Rs 176.48 respectively.\n\nMeanwhile, the National Stock Exchange ended 2.59 per cent lower at 1314.70 points, showing a net loss of 34.90 points. Marketmen informed that there was major shifting of positions from the NSE to the BSE, which was one of the reasons for the fall today.\n\nPentafour lost Rs 83 to close at Rs 1,192, Satyam at Rs 1,398, down Rs 90, Ranbaxy at Rs 802, down Rs 14 and Zee Telefilms at Rs 1,900, up Rs 20. \n\n\ni hope i answered ur question..........
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Points on the stock market index represent the trend, business sentiment and the healthiness of the market. Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange are the two main exchanges in india and their daily trend is represented by the BSE Index and NSE Index. \n\nBasic idea behind the points of Sensex is the stock exchange has identified few big companies like reliance etc that represent the major volume of trades in the exchange and the capital market. Sensex points are calculated by computing the market capitalization of these few compaines on each single day.\n\nSmall Cap means small capitalization stocks. Stocks which are small in terms of price and total number of shares. Example is a stock with a value of Rs. 15 and total number of shares is 1,00,00,000. so market cap would be 15,00,00,000\n\nMedium Cap means medium capitalization stocks. Stocks which are not very small nor very big in terms of price and total number of share. Example is a stock with a value of Rs 85 and the total number of shares is 1,00,00,000. So market cap would be 85,00,00,000