The Stock Market Story

The Stock Market is a place where the stocks and shares of Companies, Govt. Institutions etc. are sold or purchased giving them an opportunity to get public funding and the public and other investors to earn from the rise or fall in stock/share prices traded there. The stocks or shares of the Companies etc. are listed on the Stock Exchanges like the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) or the National Stock Exchange (NSE) in India after which the investors can purchase them to earn profits in the rise/fall in stock/share prices. The investors can do so through a registered Broker either Online though Websites, Apps etc. or through telephonic requests.

The Stock Market is a very popular investment medium. The returns from it are usually higher than any other form of investment viz. Bank Savings, FD, Real Estate, Gold or even Mutual Funds. Although long term returns are better, still some traders eke out formidable returns in short term trades say, 1 day, a week, a month or 3 months. Stock Market trading or success is of course a hard work. A large amount of study, intricacy, patience and alertness is essential to make plausible returns from it. There are rags to riches stories but at the same time distress tales of utter financial collapse or bankruptcy. There are instances where people started their trading journey with only a handful of money but with their sheer grit, hardwork and efficiency became millionaires and billionaires. The stock/share prices change every moment after the trades that take place in them or due to any news of profitability or loss of the Companies coming in. The uncertainty in the stock prices moving either high or low or just remaining flat is so big that 100% predictability is impossible. Even with the best of Chart tracking like – Line Charts, Candle Stick Charts, Intra Day, Weekly or Monthly Charts, etc. accurate prediction of the prices is still a guess. Even for the best of market experts, financial pundits or experienced traders too price prediction is not fully certain. One has to have tremendous patience, alertness and knowledge so as to build a formidable wealth out stock market tradings. The Indian Stock Market started its operations with the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) set up in 1875. Later the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was set up in 1992 in Bombay erstwhile Mumbai. Initially trading was done using paper shares which were exchanged after a certain price was achieved. Later in the 1995 Online trading using the Internet and Computers was started. Now-a-days smartphones or laptops, PCs are widely used for trading alongwith telephonic trading. Whilst paper trading is not prevalent now. Important terminologies related to the Stock Market include-

· Share or Stock – A unit of holding of partnership of a Company or firm by an investor after purchase from a stock market. A stock is a group of shares thus acquired.

· Demat A/c- A Dematerialized account where shares of Companies etc. are stored in electronic form after converting them from physical shares.

· Listing and IPOs- A stock or share must listed on a Stock Exchange in order to be traded. An IPO (Initial Public Offering) is the availability of shares for purchase for getting listed on the Exchange.

· Exchange-A place where stocks/shares of Companies can be traded like BSE, NSE in India or the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange), LSE (London Stock Exchange) etc. SEBI (Securities Exchange Board of India) regulates the markets in India.

· Index – A value for indicating total of value of stocks in an Exchange or in the predefined group.

· Broker- A firm or Company registered with the regulator so that it can enable its customers to trade in stocks at the exchanges.

·Bidding Price and Offer Price- Bidding Price, Price at which a stock can be bought. Offer price, price at which a stock can be sold.

· Bulls and Bears- Technical term meaning prices or markets are going up, Bulls and going down, Bears.  

· Volatility-Sharp or fast movement in the stock prices or the indices.

· Order - The request to buy or sell a particular stock/share made through a broker.

· Stop Loss – A minimum price of stock below which it is sold and not retained.

·Futures and Options – A segment of the Stock Market that purchases stocks/shares that are to be sold at date later with or without the chance to make exits in between.

· Commodities- A segment of the Stock Market that enables sell or purchase of items like Gold, Silver, Copper etc, Pulses like Dal, Spices, Grains like Rice, Wheat, Barley etc., Oil, Natural Gas, Crops like Jute, Guar etc.

· Currency Market - A segment of the Stock Market that enables the trading of Indian or Foreign currencies.

· T+1 date- A date after a trading date on which it is settled. Usually one day (working day) after the given trade.

· STT and LTCG – The Securities and Transaction Tax, paid on each trade done. Long Term Capital Gains Tax, tax paid on profits of stocks/ shares held for more than a year.

· DMA, DEMA, MAs- Abbreviations for Daily Moving Average, Daily Exponential Moving Average or simply Moving Average used to show the stock price movements on a daily or a 20, 30, 50, 100 200, 500 day intervals.  

The fortunes of the world’s richest billionaires have been brightened by the Stock Markets viz- Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Benjamin Graham, Jeff Bezos, George Soros, Elon Musk

or India’s own Rakesh Jhunjhunwalla,Mukesh Ambani, Ramdeo Agarwal, Radha Krishna Damani etc. One thing is common among them all. They have arduously even against the worst of market crashes and turmoils stuck to their task and built wealth both for themselves, their Companies or their clients. The Stock Market is a large source of public revenue as well as a hope of additional income for large number of small investors, mutual fund investors or garnering wealth for companies listed. The Indian stock markets have been leaders lately in terms of overall returns generated on investments and will very hopefully do well in the future given India’s high economic growth rates and excellent prospects.   

Pushpa: The Rise

 

Pushpa: The Rise a phenomenal movie released in 2021, has set the screen afire with its high-blasting action, drama, stellar performance and its energetic dialogues. The film made in the backdrop of red sandalwood smuggling led by an angry, adroit and passionate labourer Pushpa Raj , portrayed by Allu Arjun has been pathbreaking in bringing back people to the theatres after the Covid-19 disruption.

Pushpa Raj, an avengeful son of an estranged mother, works in the forest of Seshachalam. Just like many other labourers, he too in the lure of quick bucks ventures into the deep jungles to cut and smuggle the precious red sandalwood , banned legally, to be exported to far away countries like Japan etc. as gifts, momentos et al. DSP Govindappa a strict and honest policeman manages to create terror among the people involved in the trade. Pushpa, however challenges him and makes away with trucks of the contraband wood outwitting the DSP. He cleverly hides his own truck in a pond at the surprise of all, to successfully deliver it to his master Konda Reddy. Pushpa alongwith his friend Kesava purchases a car from the proceeds of the labour then.

Pushpa by his courage, adroit skills and clever tactics and successes manages to get bigger assignments from  his master Konda Reddy and climbs higher in the game very fast. In the mean time he falls for a beautiful rustic girl Srivalli and decides

to marry her. However , his half brother Mohan also an influential wood smuggler comes in between and questions Pushpa’s inheritage and creates a ruckus in the ceremony. Pushpa’s mother gets grievously injured in the fight which infuriates him. Pushpa vows to rise in the society to avenge his mother and break the pride of Mohan. During this time, he is assigned a big job of safely protecting a large consignment, 200 tons of the ‘red-sandalwood’ of Mangalam Srinu for further transport to Chennai. Despite a police raid, Pushpa cleverly drops the wood blocks into the flowing river and and captures the same with his aides. To quickly earn more, he decides to trade the wood directly to traders to Chennai at a higher price, ₹1 crore/ton and shares the profit with his partner Konda. When Konda’s brother tries to dishonour Srivalli,

Pushpa smashes him up to disability. Konda discovers about this and tries to kill Pushpa. But Srinu’s men come to Pushpa’s rescue. Pushpa however manages to kill Konda in the fight. Pushpa captures and kills Srinu’s brother-in-law Mogileesu.With the mediation of MP Bhumireddy Naidu, Pushpa and Srinu declare truce and Pushpa becomes the head of the syndicate. While Pushpa flourishes in his trade, a new SP Bhanwar Singh Shekhawat gets appointed in the district. Pushpa tries to bribe him which the SP rejects. In the ensuing tussle with the officer, Pushpa secretly meets the SP on his wedding day and drinks with him passionately. Stung by Pushpa’s arrogant and rebellious attitude the biligerent SP returns home angry and kills his own pet dog. Pushpa too fired by the insult to his clout vows to take forward his business more rigorously culminating the first edition of the movie.

                              

The Fastest Processor Available

By the processor, in IT-Hardware parlance we mean the large square metal component sitting most prominently inside the motherboard. It is responsible for conducting most of the arithmetic, logical, co-ordination, management etc. of the resources and tasks and operations inside the computer system. The processor does its activities in a systematic order of processes i.e. Fetch, Decode, Execute and Store. One such completion of the cycle per second is referred to as the clock speed or the frequency of the processor, calculated in Gigahertz. Other parameters like types of processes being executed, power consumption, over-heating etc. also matter in determining the speed or performance of the processor. A core of the CPU is central part of the CPU that receives instructions, performs operations for the instructions sent. A single processor can have multiple cores to accomplish a large number of operations simultaneously or do parallel operations on a single set of data/instructions. CPUs are classified thus as single core, dual-core, quad-core etc. Intel being the first company to produce processors is the leader of the pack producing the largest number of processors yearly. Other popular brands include AMD (Advanced Micro Devices), Nvidia, Samsung, Qualcomm, IBM (International Business Machines) etc. Launched in November 2020, the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X is a desktop processor with 16 cores – is one of  the fastest processors available. It has a boost clock speed of up to 4.9 GHz, a large 72 M cache (memory). Intel’s fastest processor the Core i9 10900K has a clock speed of 5.3 GHz. But with 10 cores compared with the former’s 16 the Intel i9 10900K gives a lower clock speed. That said both these processors are mostly gaming devices. However, the AMD TR3990X processor introduced before the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X is comparatively faster when it comes to being used for regular purposes like in office, professional or personal use etc. The AMD ThreadRipper 3990X has a clock speed of 4.3 GHz but with its massive 64 cores, it is able to process data more faster and efficiently.

The AMD ThreadRipper 3990X processor comes from the Ryzen Family of AMD. Other processor families from the same brand include AMD Athlon, Sempron, Opteron, Duron etc. A 3rd Generation CPU , the AMD ThreadRipper 3990X has the new AMD TRX40 motherboards featuring the debut of advanced PCIe® 4.0 connectivity on high-end desktop, delivering more bandwidth for creators than ever. The 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ has already demonstrated its value to special effects artists for major 

motion picture studios. 64 cores provide an astonishing 128 threads of simultaneous multi-processing power, while 288MB of combined cache and vast I/O from the enthusiast-grade AMD TRX40 platform work together to deliver incredible performance. Although available in India at a cost of  a whopping ₹3-4 Lacs, the processor is a resource on its own. Called the ultimate in processing for visual effects and video editing professionals, this processor is a leader in the race of multi-purpose desktop processing. Although no processor can be said to be the best of the best of the league, given its multi-purpose nature and massive processing prowess the AMD ThreadRipper 3990X processor can be crowned as the top-most desktop processor available today.