Sensex, Nifty Open: आज अडानी ग्रुप शेयरों में बिकवाली जारी है. वहीं बैंक और फाइनेंशियल सेक्‍टर के हैवीवेट शेयरों ने भी बाजार को कमजोर किया है.

Sensex, Nifty Opening: मिले जुले ग्‍लोबल संकेतों के बीच घरेलू शेयर बाजार में भारी उतार चढ़ाव देखने को मिल रहा है. बाजार की शुरूआत बड़ी बिकवाली के साथ हुई, लेकिन कुछ देर बाद ही सेंसेक्‍स और निफ्टी दोनों इंडेक्‍स हरे निशान में आ गए. सेंसेक्‍स निचले सतरों से 900 अंक मजबूत हुआ है और फिलहाल 200 अंकों से ज्‍यादा बढ़त पर है. निफ्टी भी 17700 के पार निकल गया है. बाजार को बैंकिंग और मेटल शेयरों से बूस्‍ट मिला है. हालांकि आज अडानी ग्रुप शेयरों में बिकवाली जारी है. वहीं बैंक और फाइनेंशियल सेक्‍टर के हैवीवेट शेयरों ने भी बाजार को कमजोर किया है. फिलहाल सेंसेक्‍स में 286 अंकों की तेजी है और यह 59,616.53 के लेवल पर ट्रेड कर रहा है. जबकि निफ्टी 99 अंक चढ़कर 17703 के लेवल पर है.

आज के टॉप गेनर्स और टॉप लूजर्स

आज के कारोबार में बैंक और फाइनेंशियल शेयरों में खरीदारी दिख रही है. निफ्टी पर दोनों इंडेक्‍स 1 फीसदी मजबूत हुए हैं. वहीं मेटल इंडेक्‍स 2 फीसदी मजबूत हुआ है. ऑटो, FMCG और IT इंडेक्‍स भी हरे निशान में हैं. फार्मा इंडेक्‍स फ्लैट है तो रियल्‍टी इंडेक्‍स 1 फीसदी मजबूत हुआ है.

आज हैवीवेट शेयरों में मिक्‍स्‍ड ट्रेंड है. सेंसेक्‍स 30 के 16 शेयर हरे निशान में हैं, जबकि 14 लाल में. आज के टॉप गेनर्स में BAJFINANCE, NTPC, ITC, SUNPHARMA, SBI, MARUTI, WIPRO शामिल हैं. जबकि टॉप लूजर्स में HUL, Airtel, Titan, IndusInd Bank, Tata Steel, LT, HDFC शामिल हैं.

Stocks in News: Bajaj Finance, Tata Motors, Adani Enterprises, NTPC में रहेगी हलचल, इंट्राडे में रखें नजर

Stock Market: सेंसेक्‍स 241 अंक टूटकर बंद, निफ्टी 18127 पर, बैंक-ऑटो शेयरों में गिरावट, ये हैं टॉप लूजर्स

Adani Group Shares: अडानी ग्रुप के शेयरों में निवेशकों के 2 लाख करोड़ डूबे, Adani Gas 20% टूटा, इन शेयरों में लोअर सर्किट

Real Estate Outlook: रियल एस्टेट में इस साल दिख सकती है बंपर ग्रोथ, सरकार को उठाने होंगे ये जरूरी कदम

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अमेरिकी बाजार बढ़त पर बंद हुए

शुक्रवार को प्रमुख अमतेरिकी बाजार बढ़त पर बंद हुए थे. बेहतर कॉरपोरेट अर्निंग और इकोनॉमिक रिकवरी के संकेतों के चलते सेंटीमेंट बेहतर हुआ. शुक्रवार को Dow Jones में 28.67 अंकों या 0.08 फीसदी की तेजी रही और यह 33,978.08 के लेवल पर बंद हुआ. S&P 500 इंडेक्‍स 10.13 अंक बढ़कर 4,070.56 के लेवल पर बंद हुआ. जबकि Nasdaq Composite में 109.30 अंकों की बढ़त रही और यह 11,621.71 के लेवल पर बंद हुआ.

Adani Enterprises FPO को कैसा मिल रहा रिस्‍पॉन्स, अडानी ग्रुप के शेयरों में बिकवाली से क्‍या डर गए निवेशक?

FII और DII डाटा

शुक्रवार यानी 27 जनवरी के कारोबार में फॉरेन इंस्‍टीट्यूशनल इन्‍वेस्‍टर्स (FII) नेट बायर्स रहे. NSE पर उपलब्‍ध प्रोविजनल डाटा के अनुसार 27 जनवरी को FII ने बाजार से 5977.86 करोड़ रुपये के शेयर खरीदे. वहीं इस दौरान डोमेस्टिक इंस्‍टीट्यूशनल इन्‍वेस्‍टर्स (DII) नेट बायर्स रहे. उन्‍होंने 27 जनवरी को 4252.33 करोड़ के शेयर खरीदे.

F&O बैन में ये स्‍टॉक

आज यानी 30 जनवरी 2022 को 1 शेयर F&O बैन में हैं. एनएसई ने इस कैटेगिरी में आज Ambuja Cements को शामिल किया है. जिस कंपनी का डेरिवेटिव कांट्रैक्‍ट मार्केट वाइड पोजिशन लिमिट का 95 फीसदी पार कर जाता है, उनके शेयरों को F&O में रखा जाता है.

एशियाई बाजारों में मिक्‍स्‍ड ट्रेंड

आज के कारोबार में प्रमुख एशियाई बाजारों में मिक्‍स्‍ड ट्रेंड दिख रहा है. SGX Nifty में मामूली 0.03 फीसदी की गिरावट है तो निक्‍केई 225 में 0.16 फीसदी बढ़त है. स्‍ट्रेट टाइम्‍स में 0.10 फीसदी और हैंगसेंग में 1.26 फीसदी की कमजोरी देखने को मिल रही है. ताइवान वेटेड में 2.92 फीसदी बढ़त है तो कोस्‍पी में 1.24 फीसदी गिरावट है. हालांकि शंघाई कंपोजिट 0.71 फीसदी मजबूत हुआ है.

ब्रेंट क्रूड 87 डॉलर पर

ब्रेंट क्रूड में हल्‍की गिरावट देखने को मिल रही है. क्रूड इंटरनेशनल मार्केट में 87 डॉलर प्रति बैरल पर है. अमेरिकी क्रूड भी 80 डॉलर के नीचे है. यूएस में 10 साल की बॉन्‍ड यील्‍ड 3.516 फीसदी पर है.

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The so-called “Yellowstone effect” — a cultural phenomenon stemming from the popularity of the television drama “Yellowstone” — has trickled into fashion, making Western wear like cowboy hats and boots increasingly popular across the U.S.

According to one executive, that trend will last for at least the next few years.

Western wear is “going to briefly take over the world,” J Rogers Kniffen World Wide Enterprises CEO Jan Rogers Kniffen told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “Why is it going to take over the world? It’s courtesy of Paramount. Paramount+ basically came out with ‘Yellowstone’ and ‘1883,’ which was the spinoff, the prequel to ‘Yellowstone,’ and ‘1923,’ which is another prequel to ‘Yellowstone.’ And they’re the most popular things on television.”

Western wear is back in style, largely due to the popularity of the television show “Yellowstone.” (Photo: Paramount Network)

Yellowstone’s popularity boomed this fall as the Paramount Network (PARA) show launched its fifth season. With 9.41 million viewers, Yellowstone’s Season 5 premiere finished fourth in network television viewership for the week of Nov. 7-13, only trailing NFL football. And the craze around the show has led to an increasing number of people looking to emulate the style of the show’s featured family — the Duttons — and their cowboy ranch.

“Everybody wants to be Beth Dutton,” Kniffen said, referring to one of the show’s main characters. “Everybody wants to meet Beth Dutton in a bar. And everybody wants John Dutton to be their dad. And that’s going to cause Western wear to be great.”

The show has not only led to a tourism boom in Montana but also a rise in wealthy individuals seeking to own land in the state. According to Kniffen, it could also help boost some public companies over the next several quarters.

Retailers like Boot Barn (BOOT), Levi Stauss (LEVI), Wrangler (KTB), and even Tractor Supply (TSCO), which sells Carhartt clothing, all stand to benefit from the Western wear trend, he added, particularly because people who don’t typically wear the style are now trying it out.

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“People like me, who have always worn it, are wearing more of it,” Kniffen said. “And even fashion videos and things are featuring Western wear. … [But] it’s not just Western — it’s also outdoor looks. And we’re seeing that take over. And if you haven’t been invited to a denim and diamonds party, you will be. And you’ll have to wear boots and a Western look. And that’s just where we’re going right now.”

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One of the oldest financial adages in the book is that it “takes money to make money.” Aside from selling your own labor, that’s true, and the stock market is arguably the most lucrative and time-tested arena for everyday investors to put their money to work.

Of course, the most surefire way to take advantage of Wall Street gains is to buy and hold passive, low-cost stock market mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, that track a prominent index like the S&P 500. While this approach works best for most people, there are two downsides: First, you can never outperform the index you’re tracking. Second, it’s a bit boring.

So let’s say you’ve decided to take the plunge into picking individual stocks. If you’ve never done it before, it can be a bit daunting to jump right in and deploy your hard-earned capital. This is where “paper trading” comes in handy.

What Is Paper Trading?

Instead of buying stocks with real money, the act of paper trading simply means that you game out your investing strategy with fake money and track your results. This allows you to test the success of your ideas before ultimately putting real capital behind your convictions.

While paper trading is arguably most useful for short-term day traders looking to test a rules-based strategy, it can also benefit the cautious would-be buy-and-hold investor.

Here are five of the best paper trading sites and stock market simulators:

• MarketWatch
• Investopedia
• Finviz
• Thinkorswim by TD Ameritrade
• eToro

MarketWatch

Dubbed the “virtual stock exchange,” this paper trading platform is hosted on financial news site MarketWatch. Heavily used by individual investors, beginners and students competing with one another in a classroom setting, there were more than 40,000 active “games” at the time of this writing.

The virtual stock exchange allows users to create or join a game in which you can compete against others to produce the best returns with your imaginary money. Looking to paper trade in private? No problem – just create a private game and track your own hypothetical trades without fear of judgment.

MarketWatch offers the choice to invest in more than 5,000 public companies across the Nasdaq, NYSE and NYSE American exchanges, as well as many over-the-counter pink sheet picks. You can choose to start with any sum of fake money you like, up to a maximum of $10 million.

Other features include the ability to set a commission fee for each trade, the ability to short sell, margin trading (and a customizable interest rate charged for trading on margin), as well as limit, stop-loss and partial shares, or fractional, trading.

This paper trading site should have most of what the average investor would want or need, although there are some minor drawbacks. Options trading isn’t allowed, and the end date for the game you devise can’t be more than a year in the future. And for those looking to pull one over on their fellow competitors, there appears to be a minor glitch in which reverse stock splits can erroneously multiply the value of your portfolio overnight.

Investopedia

Another financial news and analysis site, Investopedia, also offers a free stock market simulator in the same vein as MarketWatch’s. On top of the ability to trade stocks, Investopedia offers several additional features that MarketWatch doesn’t.

In addition to stocks and ETFs, users can freely paper trade stock options, which adds another layer of complexity for anyone looking to explore what selling covered calls or testing options strategies like protective collars or iron butterflies might look like in real life.

A nice perk of Investopedia’s interface is the “learn” tab of the simulator, where you can learn all about stocks themselves, trading basics, how to research stocks, portfolio management and options basics and strategies.

Aside from the options capability and easy-to-digest educational materials, Investopedia also differentiates itself through its cryptocurrency simulator. Like the real crypto market, it’s open for paper trading 24/7. The crypto simulator is separate from Investopedia’s main stock and options simulator, and is also free of charge once you’ve created a login.

Finviz

Financial visualization site Finviz, which also boasts news links and a daily view of the market’s top performers and most actively traded names, also offers a way for folks to seamlessly track the performance of their picks without putting real money up.

Like previous names on this list, Finviz’s portfolio-tracking capabilities don’t cost a penny as long as you create a free account. While not marketed as a stock simulator or paper trading tool, Finviz’s “portfolio” capability allows you to create a virtual portfolio that can contain as many as 50 different symbols in customized allocations. You can also build dozens of different hypothetical portfolios for free, allowing users to create portfolios based on various themes.

One neat feature is the ability to use Finviz’s stock screener to produce a list of stocks fitting certain criteria, then automatically create a portfolio of those stocks and track its performance over time.

While users can play with how selling a stock short would play out, Finviz doesn’t allow users to see what the true experience would be like, which involves paying margin interest and the potential for receiving a dreaded margin call if your bearish bet moves against you.

There are some quirks and limitations within Finviz’s paper trading features – stock splits and spinoffs are incorrectly accounted for, for example – but for a back-of-the-napkin look at how your trading strategies might play out, Finviz does just fine.

Thinkorswim by TD Ameritrade

Perhaps you want to take it a step further beyond merely creating watchlists or fake portfolios. Maybe you also want to simultaneously familiarize yourself with the layout and features of an online brokerage, and emulate exactly what trading securities with real money would look and feel like.

Thinkorswim is a highly acclaimed online trading software offered by TD Ameritrade. If you’re an existing customer, you should already have access to the paper trading feature, appropriately dubbed paperMoney. But even if you don’t have an account, you can sign up for free access to this feature alone. In doing so, you’ll get a firsthand look at some of the charting, screening and other tools that make thinkorswim one of the most highly regarded trading platforms for intermediate and sophisticated investors.

Here you’ll get access to paper trading stocks, ETFs, options, futures and foreign exchange markets, all within the heralded thinkorswim interface itself, which offers tons of education, charting and analysis tools.

There’s a touch of a learning curve with the platform for newer or less-advanced traders, but for anyone looking to seriously paper trade and get a sense of how it would look within the confines of a real online brokerage, paperMoney by thinkorswim is an excellent option.

As part of Charles Schwab Corp.’s (ticker: SCHW) 2020 acquisition of TD Ameritrade, thinkorswim is expected to migrate to Schwab sometime this year.

eToro

Online broker eToro also does a fine job of offering a paper trading experience to users. While its simulator is free, users will have to divulge a bit of personal information in order to paper trade stocks, although no such requirement is in place to paper trade cryptocurrencies.

With a much simpler and more intuitive interface than thinkorswim, eToro is a nice option for a beginner investor looking to experiment with the feel of different online brokerages and trading strategies while not risking a sensory overload from a collage of complex tools.

Those with an interest in crypto might favor eToro, and its CopyTrader feature lets users mimic the trades of certain traders on the platform, whose past performance and risk profile you can examine as well. As with other crypto-focused simulated trading tools, eToro allows paper trading of digital assets at all hours of the day and night – not just when Wall Street’s open for business.

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