KNOWLEDGE​

BTST

BTST basically means Buy Today Sell Tomorrow. It is the process when an investor sells his part of share purchased on the previous date to earn some profit. To understand it completely, you will need to understand what exactly it is. In Indian commodity market, equity settlement is done within 2 working days. So, if you are purchasing a share of Monday, you will get it delivered on Wednesday. However, in meantime, if you want to sell it back before it is being delivered to you; you are free to do so. Say, you bought a share on Monday at 100 per share. On Tuesday, the share price went up to 110. Thus, if you sell the share on Tuesday, you will get the additional profits.

OPEN POSITION

The open position is the position or situation when an investment that has entered the market in recent past has not been closed yet. For example, an investor has 100 shares. Up until those shares are sold, the position of the investor is “open position”.

SHORT POSITION

It is the process when an investor borrows some shares from a company and sells them to another investor at a particular rate and later buys those particular shares back at lower rates. It is called short position. This process is quite effective if an investor can anticipate that the price of a commodity will decrease in days to come.

CROSS HEDGE

Cross hedging is the process where there is no future contract available for a particular asset or a commodity. In that case, the investor will look up for a similar asset closely related to his and use the futures of those associated commodity or asset.

SHORT HEDGE

It is the strategy or process where the manufacturers and the producers fix the price of a commodity that is to be delivered or sold in near future.

LONG POSITION

The long position is the process when an investor buys some commodities in the hope that the price of those commodities will rise in future. Usually, the process of buying and selling is of long duration. The investor buying a commodity has no intention to sell them in short period of time and thus wait for an appropriate time to sell them.

Fraud

The long hedge is just opposite of the short hedge. It is the strategy opted by the manufacturers and the producers to fix the price of a commodity that is to be bought or purchased in near future.

• Beware of fixed/guaranteed/regular returns/ capital protection schemes. Brokers or their authorized persons or any of their associates are not authorized to offer fixed/guaranteed/regular returns/ capital protection on your investment or authorized to enter into any loan agreement with you to pay interest on the funds offered by you. Please note that in case of default of a member claim for funds or securities given to the broker under any arrangement/ agreement of indicative return will not be accepted by the relevant Committee of the Exchange as per the approved norms.
• Ensure that pay-out of funds/securities is received in your account within 1 working day from the date of pay-out.
• Be careful while executing the PoA (Power of Attorney) – specify all the rights that the stock broker can exercise and timeframe for which PoA is valid. It may be noted that PoA is not a mandatory requirement as per SEBI / Exchanges.
• Register for online applications viz Speed-e and Easiest provided by Depositories for online delivery of securities as an alternative to PoA.

• Do not keep funds idle with the Stock Broker. Please note that your stock broker has to return the credit balance lying with them, within three working days in case you have not done any transaction within last 30 calendar days. Please note that in case of default of a Member, claim for funds and securities, without any transaction on the exchange will not be accepted by the relevant Committee of the Exchange as per the approved norms.

• Check the frequency of accounts settlement opted for. If you have opted for running account, please ensure that your broker settles your account and, in any case, not later than once in 90 days (or 30 days if you have opted for 30 days settlement). In case of declaration of trading member as defaulter, the claims of clients against such defaulter member would be subject to norms for eligibility of claims for compensation from IPF to the clients of the defaulter member. These norms are available on Exchange website at following link: NSE, MCX

• Brokers are not permitted to accept transfer of securities as margin. Securities offered as margin/ collateral MUST remain in the account of the client and can be pledged to the broker only by way of ‘margin pledge’, created in the Depository system. Clients are not permitted to place any securities with the broker or associate of the broker or authorized person of the broker for any reason. Broker can take securities belonging to clients only for settlement of securities sold by the client.

• Always keep your contact details viz. Mobile number/Email ID updated with the stock broker. Email and mobile number is mandatory and you must provide the same to your broker for updation in Exchange records. You must immediately take up the matter with Stock Broker/Exchange if you are not receiving the messages from Exchange/Depositories regularly.

• Don’t ignore any emails/SMSs received from the Exchange for trades done by you. Verify the same with the Contract notes/Statement of accounts received from your broker and report discrepancy, if any, to your broker in writing immediately and if the Stock Broker does not respond, please take this up with the Exchange/Depositories forthwith.

• Check messages sent by Exchanges on a weekly basis regarding funds and securities balances reported by the trading member, compare it with the weekly statement of account sent by broker and immediately raise a concern to the exchange if you notice a discrepancy.

• Please do not transfer funds, for the purposes of trading to anyone, including an authorized person or an associate of the broker, other than a SEBI registered Stock broker.

• Do not deal with unregistered intermediaries (who are not registered with SEBI/Exchanges).

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