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Equity market comprises of capital stock of a corporation. The corporation's future economic prospects determines the value of the stock. Here Investment generally refers to the buying and holding of shares of stock in a stock market by individuals and firms in anticipation of income from dividends and capital gains.

Investing in equity shares is inarguably one of the best routes to long-term wealth accumulation.

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Derivatives are trading tool which gives one an option to take benefit of the market movement without large capital investment. It involves comparatively less initial margin requirement, hence investors have higher liquidity to maximize their revenues. It gives an opportunity to hedge one position hereby reducing the risk or possibility of loss. In finance, a derivative is a contract that derives its value from the performance of an underlying entity. This underlying entity can be an asset, index, or interest rate, and is often simply called the underlying.

Derivatives can be used for a number of purposes, including insuring against price movements (hedging), increasing exposure to price movements for speculation or getting access to otherwise hard-to-trade assets or markets.

Profit potential is what every investor wants to hear about and the currency market has plenty of it. Protect your foreign exchange exposure by making an appropriate position in the currency exchange. You can make money in the currency market whether currencies are going up or down and can also hedge your potential loss thereby minimizing the risk.

Currency Derivatives are Future and Options contracts which you can buy or sell specific quantity of a particular currency pair at a future date. It is similar to the Stock Futures and Options but the underlying happens to be currency pair (i.e. USDINR, EURINR, JPYINR OR GBPINR) instead of Stocks.

A commodity market is a market that trades in primary economic sector rather than manufactured products. Soft commodities are agricultural products such as wheat, coffee, cocoa, fruit and sugar. Hard commodities are mined, such as gold and oil. At times of inflation, commodities like gold silver etc. maintain their value even when the currency depreciates. This makes investing in commodity an essential part of one portfolio. It helps hedge against events of economic crisis or natural disasters. Liquidity of commodity is one of its biggest advantages as one can liquidate his position at any point of time.

Just like a Savings bank account for money, a demat account holds your shares, bonds, mutual funds etc. in an electronic form. There is minimum risk of delivery/theft/forgery/loss or damage. The shares can be transferred immediately and no stamp duty is levied on such transfer of securities.

In simple terms depository is an organization where securities of an investor are held and transferred in electronic form. Now, it is even possible to hold mutual fund units in dematerlised form. DP provides a single interface for fast, simple and safe access to all your investments whether they are shares, bonds or mutual funds.

Margin Trading is trading with borrowed funds. It refers to the facility which involves funding of shares that an investor intends to buy but doesn't have enough resources for it. One may not pay the entire amount to carry those shares, all that is required is collateral which could be in form of stocks or cash.

This collateral is held by the broker on behalf of the client as margin and it is released once the entire debit is cleared. The facility of margin trading is available for Group 1 securities and those securities which are offered in the initial public offers and meet the conditions for inclusion in the derivatives segment of the stock exchanges.