This course is designed and developed by Knowledge Horizon with an objective to demystify the concepts related to stock market for the investors, who without any prior knowledge with the help of our innovative, simple can easily understand the concepts like reasons for the changes in the prices of the stocks, analyse the relevance of the PE ratio of stocks, calculate the return on the stocks, Identify the types of risks and analyse the beta of the stocks, make investment decisions on the basis of reward to variability ratio, analyse different techniques of fundamental analysis, use various ratios to analyse a company’s stock, analyse different stock charts, recognise different trends in stocks, describe the features of forwards contract, futures contract and options, differentiate between a call option and a put option, describe the process of mark to market, outline the process of future pricing,interpret the buying and selling process of a call option and Put option, analyse the various situations and the profit or loss on the expiration date of the call and put option, find out how companies can hedge against commodity price fluctuations, determine the trading of commodity futures, differentiate between different methods of swaps, use different methods of swaps to minimize the risk, Interpret the meaning of portfolio selection, Interpret the criteria for selection, Interpret capital market line and Interpret and calculate sharp ratio.

This course on Securities Analysis and Portfolio Management would be of immense value to business managers, investors and accounting students, final year students of MBA/PGDBA/MCA/CA/CS/ICWAI/ BCOM/ BBA/I.Com and entrepreneurs teachers, entrepreneurs, business owners, managers, working professionals from any function such as Marketing, Operations, HR, Accounts, etc., and from any industry.

This topic encompasses the following eleven modules:

Module 1. Guide to Investors

Module 2. Measures of Risk & Return

Module 3. Fundamental Analysis

Module 4. Technical Analysis

Module 5. Introduction to Futures

Module 6. Introduction to Options

Module 7. Introduction to SWAPS

Module 8. Introduction to Commodities

Module 10. Portfolio Selection

Module 11: Final Assessment