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  • Margin Calculator (Part 1)

    Karthik Rangappa on January 23, 2015

    This chapter gives you an overview of how to use a margin calculator. In addition the chapter also touches upon spread trading such as calendar spreads. ..

  • Margin & M2M

    Karthik Rangappa on January 20, 2015

    This chapter gives you all the necessary information that you need to know before placing your first futures trade. The chapter also throws light into why brokers and exchanges charge margins. ..

  • Leverage & Payoff

    Karthik Rangappa on January 14, 2015

    This chapter discusses leverage, the central theme of futures trading in detail. The contract between futures and spot market is discussed. The chapter also touches upon leverage calculation. ..

  • The Futures Trade

    Karthik Rangappa on January 9, 2015

    The article explains how a trader can employ futures contract to financially profit from his directional view on a stock or an index. Practical examples are used to illustrate how the trade would evol ..

  • Introducing Futures Contract

    Karthik Rangappa on January 8, 2015

    The article starts by discussing the drawbacks of Forwards contracts and progress to discuss how a futures contract overcomes these drawbacks. Examples are quoted to make the concept clear. ..

  • Background – Forwards Market

    Karthik Rangappa on January 8, 2015

    An introductory article on Futures. Describes what a forward contract means along with a practical illustration of the concept. The article discusses the procedure for settling the forward contract. T ..

  • The Finale

    Karthik Rangappa on December 8, 2014

    An understanding of the drawbacks of the DCF Analysis and also a look at the concept of Margin of Safety. Some insights into managing and rebalancing of your stock portfolio ..

  • Equity Research (Part 2)

    Karthik Rangappa on December 8, 2014

    Understand and interpret the concept of free cash flow. A study of the calculation of the per share price using free cash flow and the total net present value of a stock. ..

  • DCF Primer

    Karthik Rangappa on December 4, 2014

    This chapter deals with the understanding of the concept of the Time value of money and how the DCF model can be used to estimate the price of a stock. The DCF analysis helps us to arrive at the prese ..

  • Equity Research (Part 1)

    Karthik Rangappa on December 1, 2014

    The chapter discusses how a Limited Resource Equity Research can be performed by a layman. A basic but powerful checklist is introduced which helps in filtering investment grade companies form a large ..