Candlestick Patterns

Sorry for my long absence from here. As you might be knowing already, been keeping busy with Options Blog (Trade for the Week posts). Hope you have enjoyed the trade as much as I did including the Trading Holiday gaffe. I also made a offbeat post about Europe Crisis and thanks for your mails about it. Will keep on writing such off the track posts in between.

Been also writing lot of posts on Equity Blog. Wrote lot of them about Candlestick Patterns like single candlestick patterns (Doji, Hammer, Marubozu and so on) and just today started with candlestick patterns formed by multiple candles. These are very useful basics whether you want to trade Options, Futures or Equities. Hope you have been enjoying them too.

Will write next post here very soon.

Happy Trading.

Margins Concluded

We have seen Margins, Margins for Options, Margin Calculations and so on. Let's tie any loose end.

Regarding payment of the Margin... I mentioned various ways of paying Margins which will differ from Broker to Broker in terms of acceptable instruments and limits against each instrument. However NSE has its own guidelines for that which can be read here.

As for the SPAN Margins... NSE releases SPAN Margin file six times a day. Once before start of the trading, 4 times during the day and once after the end of trading. You can download SPAN file here. Honestly, I have never downloaded this file and also it seems that it needs some kind of software to open it. Many brokers give SPAN data in Excel or XML formats and you can check with yours if you are enthu about it. Frankly I was never bothered about it.

Finally it will be a good idea to read through NSE Faq on Margins... it can clear lot of doubts about Volatility and it's calculation. You can take a look at this file here.

If you have any more questions about Margins which are not answered in above links... God save me. Just kidding, do let me know and I will try my best to dig out more information for you. Stay tunes for more.