Last Updated: 19 February 2021
Do you know which Stock Exchange was first established in India?
Well, it was the Bombay Stock Exchange that was first established in 1875. Bombay Stock Exchange commonly known as BSE is also the oldest stock exchange in Asia.
You might have heard of the terms like SENSEX, Indices, Stocks, Shares, Market Prize, LTP, NSE, etc, and had been wondering what really are those terms.
If you want to learn General Knowledge about the Indian Stock Market, how it works, what do those terms mean? You came to the right place.
Today You will learn GK On Indian Stock Market, which is presented as Questions And Answers format. Read all the GK On Indian Stock Market and take your one step ahead on Investing your money.
Operating Stock Exchanges In India
| No. | Stock Exchange | Short |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bombay Stock Exchange | BSE |
| 2 | National Stock Exchange of India | NSE |
| 3 | Calcutta Stock Exchange | CSE |
| 4 | India International Exchange | India INX |
| 5 | Indian Commodity Exchange | ICEX |
| 6 | Metropolitan Stock Exchange of India Ltd | MSE |
| 7 | Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd | MCX |
| 8 | National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Ltd | NCDEX |
| 9 | NSE International Exchange | NSE IFSC |
GK On Indian Stock Market
Answer: Mumbai
Answer: 5 (Five)
Answer:
1) BSE SENSEX
2) S&P BSE SmallCap
3) S&P BSE MidCap
4) S&P BSE LargeCap
5) BSE 500
Answer: Standard & Poor’s
Answer: 30 Companies
Answer: 50 Companies
Answer: Initial public offering
Explanation: It is a Public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and retail investors.
Answer: Last Traded Price
Answer: Ashish Kumar Chauhan
Answer: The National Stock Exchange of India
Answer: Vikram Limaye
Answer:
1) NIFTY 50
2) NIFTY NEXT 50
3) NIFTY 500
Answer: America
Answer: Securities and Exchange Board of India
Answer: Tokyo Stock Exchange
Answer: A company whose share always provides profit
Answer: 1992
Answer: Stock Exchange Sensitive Index
Answer: National Stock Exchange Fifty
Answer: Dalal Street (Mumbai)
Answer: 12 April 1992
Answer: SEBI
Answer: NASDAQ (February 8, 1971)
Answer: New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
Answer: 1992
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Answer: Distribution of profits by a company or corporation to its shareholders.
Answer: Bombay Stock Exchange (August 31, 1957)
Answer: India International Exchange (India INX)
Answer: Futures and Options
Answer: Commodity is a Raw Material or Primary Agricultural product or anything that can be bought and sold in stock exchange.
Answer: Bombay Stock Exchange
Answer: More than 5000
Answer: More than 1600
Answer: National Stock Exchange of India Limited
Answer: NSE Indices Limited
Answer: Original cost of the stock on the certificate
Answer: Someone who buys and sells shares over the Internet over a period of one day.
Answer: Someone who buys and holds a share for more than one day and sells shares over the Internet after a certain period.
Answer: Price–Earnings Ratio is Company’s Share Price Vs Company’s Earnings Per Share.
Answer: A Sum of money that is Owed or Due
Answer: Rapid change of Share Price that is unpredictable
Answer: Internal Rate of Return
Answer:
1) Bank
2) Health Care
3) Construction
4) Education
5) FMCG
6) Agriculture
7) Telecommunication
8) IT
9) Pharmaceutical
10) Mining, etc
Answer: Compound Annual Growth Rate
Answer: It is the Analysis of a Company’s Financial by looking at the history of its share price. Analyst study’s the Market Data or Pattern to identify trends and make predictions.
Answer: Share Price level at which it is thought that the price will tend to Stop and Reverse.
Answer: Goods and Services Tax
Answer: It is a chart used by traders to determine possible price movements by studying past patterns.
Answer: Non Performing Assets
Answer: 20 Departments
1) Commodity Derivatives Market Regulation Department (CDMRD)
2) Corporation Finance Department (CFD)
3) Department of Economic and Policy Analysis (DEPA)
4) Department of Debt and Hybrid Securities (DDHS)
5) Enforcement Department – 1 (EFD1)
6) Enforcement Department – 2 (EFD2)
7) Enquiries and Adjudication Department (EAD)
8) General Services Department (GSD)
9) Human Resources Department (HRDM)
10) Information Technology Department (ITD)
11) Integrated Surveillance Department (ISD)
12) Investigations Department (IVD)
13) Investment Management Department (IMD)
14) Legal Affairs Department (LAD)
15) Market Intermediaries Regulation and Supervision Department (MIRSD)
16) Market Regulation Department (MRD)
17) Office of International Affairs (OIA)
18) Office of Investor Assistance and Education (OIAE)
19) Office of the Chairman (OCH)
20) Regional Offices (ROs)
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Popular Stock Exchange Name With Country
| No. | Stock Exchange | Short | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York Stock Exchange | NYSE | United States |
| 2 | Nasdaq | NASDAQ | United States |
| 3 | Japan Exchange Group | JPX | Japan |
| 4 | Shanghai Stock Exchange | SSE | China |
| 5 | Hong Kong Stock Exchange | SEHK | Hong Kong |
| 6 | Shenzhen Stock Exchange | SZSE | China |
| 7 | TMX Group | TSX | Canada |
| 8 | Australian Securities Exchange | ASX | Australia |
| 9 | Korea Exchange | KRX | South Korea |
| 10 | Singapore Exchange | SGX | Singapore |
51. What is Mutual Fund?
Answer: It is a managed Investment Fund, A Pool of Money collection from many investors to invest in securities like stocks, bonds, and other assets.
52. What is an Asset?
Answer: Any resource or property owned by a person or company
53. What is a Liability?
Answer: It is a sum of money legally responsible for something or a sum of money that you owe to someone.
54. What is the difference between Stock vs Share?
Answer:
Stock: Ownership Certificates of Any Company
Share: Ownership Certificates of a Particular Company
55. Can you buy Stocks or Shares directly from the Stock Exchange?
Answer: No, One can only buy shares through Stockbrokers
56. What is a Discount Stockbroker?
Answer: A Broker who provides trading services at a reduced commission rate.
57. Top Discount Stockbroker’s in India?
Answer:
1) Zerodha
2) Upstox
3) 5paisa
4) SAMCO
5) Master Trust
58. What is a Demat Account?
Answer: Account to hold Shares in Electronic Form
59. What is a Trading Account?
Answer: Account opened at a Stockbroker for trading stocks
60. Normal Trading Time in India?
Answer: 9:15 AM to 03:30 PM
61. What is the Base year of NIFTY?
Answer: 3 November 1995
62. What is the Base year of Sensex?
Answer: 1978-79
63. What is Equity?
Answer: Equity is the ownership of assets that may have debts or other liabilities attached to them.
64. What is Square Off?
Answer: Squaring off is a trading style used by traders in day trading, in which a trader buys or sells a particular quantity of stocks. Later on, that day reverses the transaction in the hope of earning a profit.
65. What is EBITDA?
Answer: Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
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66. What is Revenue?
Answer: An income that a business has from its normal business activities
67. Where is the headquarter of SEBI?
Answer: Mumbai
68. What is Market Capitalization?
Answer: Worth of a company in term of its shares
69. What is a Stock Split?
Answer: Stock Split increases the number of shares in a company but the market capital remains intact.
70. What are ETFs?
Answer: Exchange-Traded Funds
71. Who is a Retail Investor?
Answer: An individual investor who buys and sells securities, mutual funds, and ETFs through online brokerage firms.
72. Who is an Institutional Investor?
Answer: A company or organization that invests money on behalf of other people
73. What is the name of the order that you place to Buy/Sell a share at a specific price?
Answer: Limit Order
74. What is a Market Price Order?
Answer: Buying/Selling Price of a share on the open market at a given point of time.
75. Which organization Controls Share Market in India?
Answer: SEBI
76. What is FPO?
Answer: Follow-On Public Offering
77. What does Delivery mean in Stock Market?
Answer: Buying shares and holding them for more than one day
78. What are the Two Depositories in India?
Answer:
1) National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL)
2) Central Depository Services Limited (CDSL)
79. When does the share you Buy gets into your Demat account in India?
Answer: T+2 Days (Where T is the trading day)
80. When does the share you Sell moves from your Demat account in India?
Answer: T+2 Days
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81. What does Bonus Shares in the ratio of 5:1 mean?
Answer: One bonus share for every five shares held
82. Who is the founder of Zerodha?
Answer: Nithin Kamath
83. List of Top Largest Company in India by Market Cap?
Answer:
1) Indian Oil Corporation
2) Reliance Industries Limited
3) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
4) State Bank of India
5) Tata Motors
6) Bharat Petroleum
7) Hindustan Petroleum
8) Tata Steel
9) Tata Consultancy Services
10) Larsen & Toubro
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84. What is a Recession?
Answer: It is a period of temporary economic fall. During this period trade and industrial activity are reduced and identified by a fall in GDP in two successive quarters.
85. What is FD?
Answer: A Fixed Deposit (FD) is a type of deposit, provided by banks or NBFCs that gives you a fixed rate of interest after maturity. The rate of interest is higher than a regular savings account.
86. What is NBFC?
Answer: Non-Banking Financial Company
87. What is EPS?
Answer: Earning Per Share
88. What are Penny Stocks?
Answer: A share whose value is less than one dollar (or say less than ₹100).
89. What is a Bull Market?
Answer: Condition of a Stock Market in which share prices are rising or expected to rise.
90. What is a Bear Market?
Answer: Condition of a Stock Market in which share prices are falling or expected to fall.
91. When did MCX begin its operations in India?
Answer: November 2003
92. When was Bangalore Stock Exchange closed?
Answer: 2014
93. Which stock exchange was closed in 2018?
Answer: Ahmedabad Stock Exchange
94. What is a Circuit Breaker in Stock Market?
Answer: Regulatory measures taken by the Stock Exchange to temporarily halt in trading. This is done to prevent stock market crashes from occurring.
95. What are Derivatives?
Answer: A contract that derives its value from the performance of an underlying entity
96. What are the two types of Derivatives?
Answer: Futures and Options
97. What is Fundamental Analysis?
Answer: Analysing the financial statements of a company. Fundamental Analyst looks for 3 major analysis:
1) Company analysis
2) Industry analysis
3) Economy analysis
98. What is Technical Analysis?
Answer: Analysis of a company by patterns in market data (Say Share Price) to identify trends and make predictions. It helps in forecasting the future price of the share on the basis of historical movements of the share price.
99. What is SIP?
Answer: Systematic Investment Plan
100. Who is widely regarded as the most successful investor in the world?
Answer: Warren Buffett
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101. How many parts is Debt Market divided?
Answer: 3 Parts
1) Government securities Market
2) Money Market
3) Corporate Debt Market
102. What is a Stop Loss Order?
Answer: It is an order that is placed with a broker to buy or sell once the stock reaches a certain price. Stop Loss order is mainly used to limit an investor’s loss on a security position.
103. What is DJIA?
Answer: Dow Jones Industrial Average (Market Index)
104. Who is India’s, Warren Buffett?
Answer: Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
105. Top Investors in India?
Answer:
1) Radhakishan Damani
2) Raamdeo Agrawal
3) Porinju Veliyath
4) Dolly Khanna
5) Amitabh Bachchan
6) Ashish Kacholia
7) Vijay Kedia
8) Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
9) Anil Kumar Goel
10) Ashish Dhawan, etc
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