Indian companies involved directly or indirectly in the upcoming gas stories have performed significantly well over the past 1 year and reported moderate to strong sets of financials. If these companies could grow their financials without any key drivers, then imagine the growth, with key drivers in the years ahead!
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FII interest in Indian stocks has picked up after five months of negative inflows since May 2019, which finally turned positive in October. What has made this financial clutch return to the Indian markets, after relatively subdued net action over the past few months?
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Arbitrage or arbitraging involves buying and selling the same security in different markets to benefit from the opportunity that arises from the mispricing of the security. Generally, equity arbitrage is done by buying in the cash market and selling the same security in the futures market.
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Markets are driven by sentiments in the short run, but in the long run, factors such as governance, revenue growth and profitability drive stock prices. One size doesn’t fit all. You can’t simply go by the top line and bottom line growth in percentage term. Different industries grow at different paces. Besides, there are industry specific factors to watch out for.
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The good thing about trading in the futures market is that you do not have to block the entire value of your trade; you have to put up only the margin amount, which is a percentage of the trade stipulated by the exchange. The exchange changes this percentage on a daily basis, based on algorithms that take into account various variables including variation in price, etc.
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Like the oceans push out all dirt to the shores during the high tides, news-driven market rallies send even the fundamentally weakest stocks through the roof. But once the excitement in the news is absorbed, markets come to terms with reality.
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