Sensex has become a barometer of country’s performance and there is no escape from the Capital Markets. Sensex and Nifty indices reflects company performance immediately through their stock prices. Market efficiency has been improving and now is the time for people to learn safe investment techniques so that even the common man can take advantage of highly lucrative returns that the Indian markets have to offer today. But, this calls for sound theoretical and practical knowledge. A country, where only 5% of savings go into the Capital Markets for investment definitely needs much greater participation from the investor and trader’s community. This percentage is insignificant compared to similar percentage for US of 60% !!
Our markets run up and down on FII calls mainly with very little domestic participation from retail investors. This happens because retail investors our not educated properly about the risk and returns of the Indian Capital Markets. These people usually end up buying and selling at the wrong time and end up losing money, while FIIs and other sophisticated investors make a killing!! Why can’t retail investor’s do the same? The answer lies in information asymmetry where retail people buy mostly on rumors and without any proper financial research or practical knowledge of how to avoid unnecessary risks in investment.
This calls for creating Institutions in the country where people can learn basic dynamics of the market essential to know if one wants to make money here. India does not have such institutes but badly needs it. Recently, BLB group, a known investment-trading-research corporate house has launched its Institute of Financial Markets called BIFM.
BIFM is empowered with market specialists and eminent faculty to teach about financial markets, giving its students cutting-edge trading skills and preparing them to be intelligent investors and traders. It has a presence in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata and provides real-time trading knowledge. Their “Learn-by-doing” approach emphasizes on practical training, making the courses unique in their content and approach. It involves training through sophisticated simulated and live trading software developed in-house by BLB team.
BIFM specializes in training programs for gaining expertise in the
• Stock Market Market
• Derivative Market
• Commodity Markets
• Equity Investment and Portfolio Analysis
Through such practical and job-oriented courses, one can seriously study and better understand the financial markets. Retail investors must go for such practical courses for developing sound investing and trading skills.
