Imagine you believe the price of gold is going to rise next month. Instead of buying physical gold, you can trade gold futures — a standardized contract to buy gold at a fixed price in the future. If your prediction is right, you make a profit. This is the essence of commodity trading.
In India, commodities are traded digitally — no need to physically own oil or wheat. Traders speculate on price movements through exchanges like MCX (Multi Commodity Exchange) and NCDEX (National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange).
✅ Hedge against inflation: Commodity prices often rise when inflation spikes.
✅ Diversification: Helps spread investment risk beyond stocks and mutual funds.
✅ Speculative Gains: Short-term traders can profit from price movements.
✅ Global Exposure: Especially via crude oil, gold, and base metals.
📌 Example: In 2022, when crude oil surged due to the Russia-Ukraine war, Indian commodity traders on MCX made significant gains from price swings — without ever touching a drop of oil.
India has two SEBI-approved commodity exchanges:
These exchanges function like stock exchanges but for goods. You don’t take delivery (unless you want to); trades are settled digitally.
You trade commodity futures — contracts to buy/sell a commodity at a future date. For instance, a Gold Mini August Futures contract means you’re trading 100 grams of gold, deliverable in August.
Contracts are standardized by:
You don’t need the full contract amount. Just a margin — usually 5–10% — to enter the trade.
⚠️ Example: If a gold futures contract is worth ₹5,00,000, you might only need ₹25,000–₹50,000 as margin. But with leverage comes risk. Sudden price dips can wipe out your capital.
Absolutely — but only via SEBI-registered brokers and regulated exchanges. You must:
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सोने और चांदी की कीमतों में तेज़ी पिछले सप्ताह भी जारो रही। घरेलु वायदा बाजार में सोना पिछले सप्ताह 400 रुपये तेज़ हो कर 47600 रुपये प्रति दस ग्राम के स्तरों पर कारोबार किया। जबकि चांदी के भाव 2300 रुपये तेज़ हुए जिससे कीमते 65500 रुपये प्रति किलो पर पहुंच गई।
विश्व बैंक ने गुरुवार को अपने नवीनतम कमोडिटी मार्केट आउटलुक में कहा कि ऊर्जा संसाधनों की कीमतें 2021 में 80 प्रतिशत से अधिक बढ़ी जिसके कारण कई विकासशील देशों में निकट अवधि के लिए वैश्विक मुद्रास्फीति का जोखिम बढ़ गया है।
बहुपक्षीय विकास बैंक के अनुमान के मुताबिक साल 2022 की दूसरी छमाही में ऊर्जा की कीमतों में गिरावट शुरू हो सकती है क्योंकि आपूर्ति संकट कम हो जायेगा, साथ ही कृषि और औद्योगिक धातुओं की कीमतों में भी गिरावट होगी जिनकी कीमते 2021 में काफी उचे स्तरों पर पहुंच चुकी है।
उच्च खाद्य कीमतें भी खाद्य-मूल्य मुद्रास्फीति को बढ़ा रही है और कई विकासशील देशों में खाद्य सुरक्षा के बारे में सवाल उठने लगे है। जिससे कीमती धातुए जो मुद्रास्फीति से सुरक्षा का बेहतर विकल्प है, की मांग मजबूत है।
दुनिया की प्रमुख केंद्रीय बैंको द्वारा कोवीड -19 का असर कम होने पर एसेट टेपरिंग पर विचार शुरू कर दिया है लेकिन, आपूर्ति में बाधा रहने से औद्योगिक उत्पादन घटने लगा है जिससे डॉलर जो सोने के विपरीत दिशा में चलता है, में पिछले सप्ताह गिरावट रही है और सोने के भाव में तेज़ी है। खुदरा मांग मजबूत रहने से भी कीमती धातुओं के भाव में तेज़ी है।
घरेलु सराफा बाज़ारो में दिवाली के पहले सोने और चांदी की खुदरा मांग बढ़ने की सम्भावना है जिससे इनके भाव में तेज़ी रह सकती है। घरेलु वायदा सोने में 47200 रुपये पर सपोर्ट है और 48000 रुपये पर प्रतिरोध है। चांदी वायदा में 63700 रुपये पर सपोर्ट और 66000 रुपये पर प्रतिरोध है।
Welcome! Today, we’re going to delve into the concept of contingent liabilities—a key aspect of financial reporting that often confuses many. Contingent liabilities are potential obligations that may arise depending on the outcome of uncertain future events. Let’s break down what they are, why they matter, and how they are reported.
Contingent liabilities are potential financial obligations that depend on the occurrence of uncertain future events. They are not guaranteed to occur but represent possible future liabilities that could affect a company’s financial position.
Contingent liabilities are an important aspect of financial reporting that help stakeholders understand potential future obligations. Proper disclosure and assessment of these liabilities provide valuable insights into a company’s financial position and risk exposure. Always stay updated about how contingent liabilities are reported and their potential impact on financial statements.
DSP Investment managers announced the launch of DSP Nifty 50 Equal Weight ETF on the very first Monday of this week. The ETF is India’s first exchange-traded fund which is based on the Nifty 50 Equal Weightage Index.
The new fund offer NFO opens for subscription on October 18th and closes on October 29th, after which it could be bought and sold on the major stock exchanges, the company said.
Before taking a deep dive into the Nifty 50 Equal Weight Index lets take a quick glance at ETF:
An ETF is a basket of securities whose shares are sold on the stock exchanges i.e. NSE and BSE. They offer similar features and potential benefits like mutual funds, stocks and bonds.
ETFs are similar to stocks as they provide investors with a facility to trade throughout the day at prices that change based on supply and demand.
Like stocks, ETFs also possess some features of mutual funds as ETF stocks represent partial ownership of a portfolio built by professional managers.
There are different types of ETFs, each with a different investment focus.
Here are some of the most common ETFs.
The returns of Diversified Passive Equity ETFs are completely dependent on the performance of widely used equity market benchmarks such as the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Averages and more.
Niche passive equity ETFs, are those whose returns are based on the performance of S&P 500 industry subgroups or Russell 2000 small companies.
These ETFs provide investors with focused exposure to help them fine-tune their portfolio strategies.
As with passive diversified funds, these niche portfolio funds are generally made up of the same stocks that are used to calculate their benchmarks.
Active Equity ETFs allow their managers to use their own judgment when choosing investments rather than being rigidly tied to a benchmark index.
Active ETFs can have the potential to outperform a market benchmark, but they can also carry higher risk and higher costs. 4,444 bond ETFs focus more on bonds than stocks.
Large fixed-income ETFs are those that actively traded on the stock market but provide low returns or steady returns to the investors. In other words, the returns generated from large fixed income are not very high yielding.
In an equal weight index, each stock present in it receives equal weight. For instance, if the method is applied to the index Nifty 50, then the equal weightage index will own the same 50 companies of Nifty 50 and will have 2% weight of each company.
This method is not like the current stock market cap design where some stocks hold a large weight such as 9-10% and many stocks in the lower tail will get only 0.3%.
This provides all the companies with a fair chance to contribute equal returns than completely dependent on the top 10 company stocks.
In Nifty 50, the stock weights are decided on the basis of market capitalization and weightage changes based on the movement of the stock market. Hence, the returns generated from the market are slanting towards the stocks that possess the highest weight.
In the Nifty 50 Equal Weight Index, equal weights are assigned to each company’s stocks and the weight of each stock is reset to equal weight every quarter. Here, they provide equal opportunity for every stock to perform.
The DSP Equal Nifty 50 ETF operates on the two fundamental investment principles that invest in industry leaders who can navigate the cycles of the stock market with better diversification between companies and sectors with equal share weights, offering low specific risks and low industry concentration compared to Nifty.
Aside from a lower-cost diversified portfolio, the Nifty 50 ETF has the same weighting benefits of ease of purchase and real-time stock trading.
The equal index is reweighted quarterly. Because of this quarterly rebalancing, an equally weighted portfolio has a built-in profit mechanism that buys the underperforming at low prices and sells the best performing at high prices.
The new fund offering opens for subscription on October 18 and ends on October 19, after which it can be bought and sold on the stock exchanges.
Kalpen Parekh, Dr MD and CEO of DSP Investment managers has said that when we explore this concept of equally-weighted indices around the world, we find that the same weights tend to produce better returns than market capitalization-weighted indices over long periods of time.
This is done because all companies have the opportunity to participate, not just a few. Such a strategy has its underperforming phase when the benefits of the economy polarize on selected companies, as they have been for the past five years.
However, since good companies in all industries grow and create long-term value, a balancing strategy gives each company significant weight in the index.
The same weighting also ensures that the sector with the most ownership is at risk at all times, ”Parekh said.
Anil Ghelani, CFA, Director of Investments and Passive Products, DSP Investment Managers, emphasized that equally weighted strategies exploit certain market inefficiencies due to behavioral distortions.
Since the strategy is not controlled by an excess of optimism in specific actions, the same weighting takes the benefits of certain stock market inefficiencies caused by behavioral biases.
These inefficiencies have contributed to the balanced index strategy eclipsing traditional index strategies based on market capitalization, ”says Ghelani.
हम एक अनोखा बुल रन देख रहे हैं, जहां महंगाई और बढ़ती बॉन्ड यील्ड की सभी चिंताओं को नजरअंदाज करते हुए बूल्स 18500 के स्तर की ओर बढ़ रहे हैं, वही हमने लंबे समय से कोई बड़ी गिरावट नहीं देखी है।
इस बुल रन का सबसे दिलचस्प हिस्सा यह है कि यह संस्थागत निवेशकों के प्रवाह की परवाह नहीं कर रहा है जहा पिछले सप्ताह नेट संस्थागत निवेश नेगेटिव रहा वही निफ्टी ने पिछले सप्ताह के प्रत्येक कारोबारी सत्र में अपनी नई ऊंचाई को छुआ तथा 2.5% की साप्ताहिक बढ़त के साथ अपने उच्चतम स्तर पर समाप्त हुआ।
FII ने केवल 1037 करोड़ रुपये की बाजार में खरीददारी की जबकि DII ने 3296 करोड़ की बिकवाली की, इसलिए संसस्थागत निवेशकों द्वारा नेट 2259 करोड़ रुपये की बिक्री हुई। बाजारों में परिस्थिति बदल रही है और हम रिटेल निवेशकों की ताकत देख रहे हैं क्योंकि एसआईपी मार्ग के साथ-साथ डायरेक्ट इक्विटी मार्ग के माध्यम से रिकॉर्ड इनफ्लो हो रहा है।
ये इनफ्लो पिछले बुल रनों की तुलना में ज़्यादा मज़बूत दिख रहा हैं क्योंकि इन निवेशकों का दीर्घकालिक दृष्टिकोण है और हर गिरावट पर खरीदारी के रुख के साथ शार्ट टर्म अस्थिरता से निपटने के लिए तैयार हैं, हालांकि इन निवेशकों के स्वभाव की वास्तविक परीक्षा थोड़े बड़े करेक्शन में होगी क्योंकि अभी तक नए निवेशकों ने बाजार में कोई बड़ी मुनाफावसूली नहीं देखी है।
अगर हम डेरिवेटिव डेटा के बारे में बात करे तो इंडेक्स फ्यूचर में FII का लॉन्ग एक्सपोजर 67% है, जबकि पीसीआर 1.53 मार्क पर है, जो बाजार में कम्फर्टेबले लेवल का संकेत देता है, हालांकि 21 अक्टूबर की एक्सपायरी के लिए ओपन इंटरेस्ट पोजीशन बिखरी हुई है, जहां पर कॉल ऑप्शन में OI 18500-19000 की रेंज में है जबकि पुट ऑप्शन के लिए यह 18300-18000 जोन है।
टेक्निकल चार्ट पर 18500 एक तत्काल और मनोवैज्ञानिक रेजिस्टेंस है, जबकि 18700 एक अपस्लोपिंग ट्रेंडलाइन रेजिस्टेंस होगा। वही दूसरी तरफ, 18250 एक तत्काल सपोर्ट स्तर है जबकि 18000 -17950 किसी भी मुनाफावसूली पर महत्वपूर्ण सपोर्ट जोन होगा।
निफ़्टी के मुकाबले बैंकनिफ्टी बेहतर प्रदर्शन कर रहा है और 40000 के महत्वपूर्ण रेजिस्टेंस को टेस्ट कर सकता है और 39000-38800 का क्षेत्र तत्काल और मजबूत सपोर्ट क्षेत्र बन गया है जबकि 38100-37900 महत्वपूर्ण सपोर्ट क्षेत्र होगा।
IT सेक्टर अंडरपरफॉर्म कर सकता है क्योंकि यह लोअर हाई और लोअर लो फॉर्मेशन बना रहा है जबकि मेटल सेक्टर नए हाई के तरफ बढ़ सकता है । पीएसयू बैंक भी आने वाले दिनों में अपनी मजबूती जारी रख सकते हैं।
अगर अगले सप्ताह के संकेतों की बात करें तो सितम्बर के तिमाही नतीजे बाजार पर हावी रहेगी जहां बाजार सोमवार को एचडीएफसी बैंक और एवेन्यू सुपरमार्ट्स (डी-मार्ट) की कमाई पर बाजार रियेक्ट करेंगे , साथ ही अल्ट्राटेक सीमेंट, एसीसी, एचयूएल, नेस्ले, एशियन पेंट्स, जेएसडब्ल्यू स्टील, एचडीएफसी लाइफ, और रिलायंस इंडस्ट्रीज सप्ताह के दौरान अपने तिमाही नतीजे घोषित करेगी ।
तिमाही नतीजे के अलावा अन्य ग्लोबल संकेत महत्वपूर्ण होंगे जहां ग्लोबल बाजारों ने एक करेक्शन के बाद अच्छा प्रदर्शन करना शुरू किया है। कमोडिटी की बढ़ती कीमतें अभी भी चिंता का विषय हैं लेकिन बाजार फिलहाल इस तथ्य पर विचार नहीं कर रहा है। डॉलर इंडेक्स और यूएस बॉन्ड यील्ड थोड़ी ठंडी हुई लेकिन आने वाले दिनों में बाजार की नजर इस पर होगी।
A financial service firm (AMC) is one that offers a large variety of mutual fund investment strategies.
In India as of now, there are 44 asset management companies (February 2017). The private sector includes 35 such AMCs. Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) India includes all asset management companies (AMFI). In 1995, AMFI was established in all registered AMCs in India as a non-profit association.
The SBI Mutual Fund was launched in 1987 and has been active for over 30 years in the Indian Mutual Fund sector. The fund administers approximately 5.4 million investment mandates. It's one of India's oldest and best-known AMCs. SBI Mutual Fund offers systems in different categories to meet different requirements of individuals.
Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited (HDFC) is a firm that is located in Mumbai, India. it is an Indian Financial Services organization. Through its subsidiary HDFC Asset Management Company Limited, HDFC provides mutual fund services. This is India's second-largest AMC.
The AMC works along with Prudential of the United Kingdom and ICICI Bank of India, one of India's largest banks. Prudential Plc. is a major player in the financial services sector in Great Britain. Founded in Mumbai on 13 October 1993, this AMC has an asset basis of about Rs 2,93,338, with more than 1,400 supplies. The AMC provides a wide array and high marked service choices.
AUM, which distributes over 600+ schemes, is presently managing over Rs 2,41,107 crore. The AMC was established by Aditya Birla Group of India and Sun Life Financial Inc. of Canada in 1994 as a joint venture.
From broad equity trading plans to industry-specific plans, the Birla Sun Life mutual fund delivers a variety of mutual fund programmes. There are also debt-mutual funds, hybrid schemes, fund schemes, monthly income plans and offshore funds. It has a large range of investments and a strong financial base.
Since 1988, Kotak's huge client base with investor lakhs has already been created. AMC provides a variety of solutions, catering with new goods to a variety of clients. With minimal SIP commitment of 1000 and 500, Kotak Equity Opportunities Fund, Standard Multicap funds have improved growth.
Founded by the late Dhirubhai Ambani, Nippon India AMC (formerly known as Reliance Asset Management Limited) is one of the most prominent Indian AMCs. It was then partnered with the Japanese Nippon Life Insurance. In 2019, the Insurance company Nippon Life held a 75% interest in the mutual fund, which allowed Anil Ambani to exit the Mutual fund industry. It was then called Nippon India Asset Management Company
Axis Mutual Fund is India's fifth-biggest asset-size mutual fund company. For the quarter ending June 2020, the Fund House would handle assets of Rs 1.34 lakh crore. The fund house's asset size fell by 2,90% from the quarterly number in March 2020. For over 11 years the fund house has existed. Axis Bank Limited controls 74.99% of the funds, while Schroder Singapore Assets Private Limited retains the remaining 25% of the holdings.
Founded in 1963, UTI is one of India's leading asset management firms. As the first mutual fund provider to offer, UTI promises certain reliable returns, Easy and accessible investment in UTI at any time of year. UTI mutual funds schemes are handled by the most acute financial institutions and hence their returns are trustworthy and in accordance with their goals for capital appreciation. The AMC manages 1,53,364 crore rs in AUM with around 1400 products and offers funds in different categories.
The IDFC Mutual Fund is India's ninth-largest asset house. For the quarter ending June 2020, the investment firm manages assets (AUM) worth Rs 1.01 lakh crore. For almost 20 years, the fund house has been around. It enables investors to make quality investments through rigorous research and creation of the product mix while taking the risk profile of their investors into account to support the fund house. In the approximately 46 cities and 280 towns in the nation, the IDFC Mutual Fund holds more than 1 million investors' accounts.
DSP BlackRock Mutual Fund is the world's largest investment management company. It has a record of more than 20 years of investing excellence. An investment host of equities, debt, hybrids, the Fund of Funds, international FoFs etc. which can be used by the investors. The AMC has a highly skilled investing staff.
The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) is a Miniratna PSU Owned by Govt. of India through Indian Railways.
It is the only authorized entity to provide certain services to the Indian Railways, including online ticketing, catering, and selling drinking water on trains and at railway stations.
IRCTC shares rallied from 2000 to 4900 level in just four-month. It has been climbing sharply on the stock market, scaling new highs in the stock is now a regular phenomenon.
Reopening of economic activities & pickup in demand in tourism sector also reaching to their pre COVID level boost up the stock price.
Technically IRCTC has given breakout after consolidation above 4000 and forming higher high and higher low chart formation which is bullish in nature.
As IRCTC stock has already rallied a lot from its SME-IPO Price (Issue 315-320), Stock may gain further due to its Monopoly Business Model. IRCTC also aggressively expands in the hospitality business will take the stock to a new high in the upcoming years. So, Long Term investors can buy on dip around level 4000-4100 for 6000+ Target.
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