Stock trading discussion

Desmond

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As the title suggests. This thread is dedicated to stock traders of the forum to discuss everything related to the stock market, stock trading, broking, etc. and everything in between.

Normal forum rules apply when posting.

Disclaimer: Follow any financial advice given here at your own risk. Digit or any member here is not responsible for any loss that may occur due to following financial advice here. Caveat emptor.
 
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Nerevarine

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Can anyone recommend me a brokerage account to keep us based stocks. I have merrill lynch but its gonna expire in around 9 months. I wanna transfer all my stocks to some other brokerage with minimal fees
 
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I use Zerodha. They provide a pretty nifty app and enrollment is a easy and straightforward process.
 

Vyom

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Thanks for making this thread. Can be useful.
Anyway, so here's a short story of my involvement in trading.

I wanted to start my investing/trading journey since atleast 4 years now. But when sh!t hit the roof in 2020, I finally entered the world of investing/trading in July 2020 after I created a Zerodha account. I knew going in that it's very easy to loose money in trading, so I only started with 10k. And also put similar money in Mutual funds. I also got lucky with my first IPO when I was able to book good profit in Mazagon IPO.
While the money in MF kept growing thanks to bull market up until February 2021, I lost my trading money (10k in just brokerage alone) when I discovered I could use "margins". That's when I realize I can't bet on random stock. So I stopped trading until and started to listen to good YTers like Invest Aaj for Kal.

So my question is, who knows this guy, "Anant Ladda"? And do you guys trade (intraday or short term like few days)?
 

Vyom

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Can anyone recommend me a brokerage account to keep us based stocks. I have merrill lynch but its gonna expire in around 9 months. I wanna transfer all my stocks to some other brokerage with minimal fees
Till now the only exposure to US stocks is Parag Parikh Flexi Cap funds. It's a good fund. Although I do want to own a piece of Tesla. Been thinking about getting a way to invest in US based stocks too. Especially since we can buy fractions of a US stock too unlike Indian stocks.

* My mentions are not recommendations. Do your own research before investing.
^ I think I would need to add this disclaimer in every post here too.
 
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Desmond

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do you guys trade (intraday or short term like few days)?
TBH I am pretty new to investing in stocks myself. I just bought some stocks based on feedback from some members like @thetechfreak and @Faun in the new telegram group.

* My mentions are not recommendations. Do your own research before investing.
^ I think I would need to add this disclaimer in every post here too.
I have already added a disclaimer in the OP, so I think it applies to all posts in general.
 

thetechfreak

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Till now the only exposure to US stocks is Parag Parikh Flexi Cap funds. It's a good fund. Although I do want to own a piece of Tesla. Been thinking about getting a way to invest in US based stocks too. Especially since we can buy fractions of a US stock too unlike Indian stocks.

* My mentions are not recommendations. Do your own research before investing.
^ I think I would need to add this disclaimer in every post here too.
If you want to buy USA stocks directly you can try vested. Not very worth for low volume purchases considering the cost but definitely worth in long term.

Alternative would be invest in Motilal Oswal N100 ETF. Read more here. It comprises of 100 USA stocks(with different weightage) and you can directly invest from Zerodha or whichever broker you use. Would suggest medium level investment on this at best (10-15% of porfolio) as sometimes these ETF have less volume and so you may have liquidity issues when looking to sell/cash out.


Can anyone recommend me a brokerage account to keep us based stocks. I have merrill lynch but its gonna expire in around 9 months. I wanna transfer all my stocks to some other brokerage with minimal fees
Use Zerodha or Angel broking. Send me a PM if you want a referral for Zerodha :p
 
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thetechfreak

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*support.zerodha.com/category/tradi...investing in stocks,funds is the easiest way.
Yeah you can't directly invest. That's why I suggested the ETF that holds these equities. Read about the ETF from the official presentation here: *www.motilaloswalmf.com/Pdf/Products/equity/1138148834N100-March-2019.pdf
 
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@thetechfreak Have you invested with any SIPs? I am looking at the ones you have suggested on smallcase but the upfront cost seems a bit too steep for me.
 

thetechfreak

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@thetechfreak Have you invested with any SIPs? I am looking at the ones you have suggested on smallcase but the upfront cost seems a bit too steep for me.
No currently not doing SIP as I can manually manage the stock portfolio(and have the time). I thing for time constricted individuals it's good to do SIP on a few mutual funds and pick stocks (on a monthly or quarterly basis) and keep adding.
 

rhitwick

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IRCTC tanking hard right now. Hope you guys exited fast if you've invested.
Govt. last night declared to take 50% profit from IRCTC convenience fee.

As a result, it tanked almost 20% in morning.

The mandate was reverted by noon, and it recovered thereafter.

b/w its bound of correct further as its valuation very high now, unreasonably high.
 

thetechfreak

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Govt. last night declared to take 50% profit from IRCTC convenience fee.

As a result, it tanked almost 20% in morning.

The mandate was reverted by noon, and it recovered thereafter.

b/w its bound of correct further as its valuation very high now, unreasonably high.
Stock manipulation at it's finest this. Any other company if they did something this dire would've been instantly placed into ASM list by SEBI
 

shreeux

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Govt. last night declared to take 50% profit from IRCTC convenience fee.

As a result, it tanked almost 20% in morning.

The mandate was reverted by noon, and it recovered thereafter.

b/w its bound of correct further as its valuation very high now, unreasonably high.
Due to the split decline...Price will adjust accordingly
 
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Desmond

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I just checked my portfolio and I now have 15 stocks of IRCTC despite having sold my stocks last Friday. Perhaps the split stocks finally got added to my account.
 

thetechfreak

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I just checked my portfolio and I now have 15 stocks of IRCTC despite having sold my stocks last Friday. Perhaps the split stocks finally got added to my account.
yeah you had the stocks on the record date so. Rest take a few days to be added and now they are.
 
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So is it worth holding now? Govt order has been reversed so surely this will bounce back right?
 

thetechfreak

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So is it worth holding now? Govt order has been reversed so surely this will bounce back right?
Might see a dump on Monday now that everyone got their "extra"/split shares. Govt will definitely look to get some % of the revenue now in future.
 
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