Share Market Today

What is Share Market?

The share market is the platform where you can buy and sell shares of companies. ‘Shares’ refer to portions of the ownership of the company. This means once you buy a share of a company, you start owning a part of the company. The larger the number of shares you buy, the greater the portion of the company that you own. As the overall value of the company increases or decreases, the value of the share that you hold will also increase or decrease respectively.

What are NSE and BSE in the Share Market?

Exchanges are platforms for the smooth and ethical functioning of the share market. Examples of such exchanges in India include the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). Shares of companies that are listed on the exchange can be traded publicly. The existence of such exchanges allows us to track the stock market live and trade them seamlessly.

Note:The terms ‘share market’ and ‘stock market’ mean the same thing and can be used interchangeably.

Types of Share Markets

You can divide the share market into two sections -

1. Primary share market - When a stock is listed and opened for trading for the first time, it is said to be available in the primary market.
2. Secondary share market - When a stock has already been traded in the share market, it is said to be available in the secondary market.

You can also categorise the share market in the following two ways -

These are indices composed of the weighted value of a combination of stocks on an exchange. For example:

• Nifty50 is an index showing the weighted value of the top 50 stocks listed on the NSE, as per their free-float market capitalisation and other criteria.
• Sensex is an index showing the weighted value of the stocks of the 30 largest companies listed on the BSE, as per free-float market capitalisation and other criteria like trading volumes and healthy balance sheets.
• Similarly, Bank Nifty or Nifty Bank is an index made of 12 of the biggest bank stocks in India.

You can trade in ETFs and mutual funds that track these indices. Or, you can trade in futures and options on some indices like Nifty, Bank Nifty and Finnifty. You can follow the share market live on this page to keep track of the movements of these indices in real-time and thereby time your trades better.

Why follow Share Market Today on Angel One?

Opportunities in the stock market may sometimes last for a few weeks or even a single day. Therefore, keeping updated with the latest market trends is key to successful trading and investing. Otherwise, you may lose favourable, wealth-generating opportunities despite having the capital.

Therefore, to know what’s happening in the share market today and identify buying and selling opportunities, bookmark this page. From market outlook in the morning and noon to the roundup of the trading day after the share market closes, this page, on the Angel One website, provides insightful information about stocks and indices. Stock market live updates include information about indices and their constituents published on a regular basis throughout the day. In addition, you can also track the performance of sectoral indices, top gainers and losers in the share market, stocks that have hit their 52-week high and low, etc.

These updates on the stock market today will immensely help you in your trades and investments on Angel One. Here is how -

1. Tracking the movements of indices and their constituent stocks will help you stay ahead of your fellow F&O traders.
2. Compiling data and analysing market trends is a hard task when done manually. This page updates the share market live insights thrice a day, so you don’t have to refer to various sources for information.
3. Knowing stocks at 52-week highs or lows, as well as top gainers or losers, is important. It can help in timing your investments/trades in individual stocks.

Assets available on the Angel One platform

Access the following assets on Angel One to earn healthy returns:

1. Stocks (both intraday and delivery)
2. Futures and options on stocks and stock market indices
3. Commodity and currency derivatives
4. Mutual funds
5. IPOs
6. Stock SIPs
7. Sovereign gold bonds