Here comes the 3rd and final part of the long weekend 'Beginners' Pathway" series.

In this we'll see Open Interest basics and Option Chain Analysis.

There are two types of Options, Call Option & Put Option.
This graphics show when to buy and when to sell options.
The first thing that we need to know is the moneyness i.e. whether an Option is At the money (ATM), In the money (ITM) or Out of the Money (OTM).

The strike closest to the market price is At The Money.

I have tried to explain OTM & ITM in a very simplistic & easy manner.
Option chain of Nifty can be seen here

https://t.co/TgHdov6Kox
Lets see each item one by one
OI (Open Interest) – is the number of open contracts relating to that strike. One buy & sell transaction constitutes one unit of OI.

CHNG IN OI – is the change in OI as compared to last day

VOLUME – is the total number of contracts that are traded for a specific strike.
IV means Implied Volatility, High IV means market is expecting more fluctuations in future.

LTP means the Last Traded Price or Premium of an option.

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Starting the Beginner’s Pathway thread for Fundamental Investing.

One Chadarmod on timeline posted that I’m giving gyan without having experience or expertise.

So I’ll begin with paying my portfolio performance tribute to these charlies.

https://t.co/GNM5SsNFNo


Fundamentals based investing can generate serious wealth as the most famous (rather infamous) Warren Buffett has shown.

In India also we have many success stories like @VijayKedia1 @Raamdeo R K Damani Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Late Chandrakant Sampat and many many more....

Though I can't stop mentioning that both Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and R K Damani were traders in their initial days.

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala still trades, he once said Traing is fun, its le fatafat, de fatafat

A lot of people (specially the beginners) buy stocks based on some friend's recommendation : XYZ le le, pukka chalega, maine bhi le rakha hai.

Few might have made money this way, but most do not. Why ?

There has to be a process.

Fundamentals based investing need thorough analysis of the Business & Company.

Here is a preliminary checklist by the legendary investor Peter lynch

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17% need workshop. 😂😀


This is my simple trading.

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