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📘 Stock Market Abbreviations & Full Forms:
🔹 General Market Terms:
- NSE – National Stock Exchange
- BSE – Bombay Stock Exchange
- SEBI – Securities and Exchange Board of India
- IPO – Initial Public Offering
- FPO – Follow-on Public Offering
- RHP – Red Herring Prospectus
- DRHP – Draft Red Herring Prospectus
🔹 Trading & Orders:
- CNC – Cash and Carry (delivery trades)
- MIS – Margin Intraday Square-off
- SL – Stop Loss
- SL-M – Stop Loss Market
- LTP – Last Traded Price
- CMP – Current Market Price
- HNI – High Net-worth Individual
- QIB – Qualified Institutional Buyer
🔹 Indices & Instruments:
- NIFTY – National Fifty (Top 50 NSE stocks)
- SENSEX – Sensitive Index (Top 30 BSE stocks)
- ETF – Exchange Traded Fund
- REIT – Real Estate Investment Trust
- InvIT – Infrastructure Investment Trust
- MF – Mutual Fund
🔹 Market Participants:
- FII – Foreign Institutional Investor
- DII – Domestic Institutional Investor
- HNI – High Net-worth Individual
- RII – Retail Individual Investor
- AMC – Asset Management Company
- AUM – Assets Under Management
🔹 Financials & Ratios:
- EPS – Earnings Per Share
- PE – Price to Earnings Ratio
- PB – Price to Book Value
- ROE – Return on Equity
- ROCE – Return on Capital Employed
- NAV – Net Asset Value
- CAGR – Compounded Annual Growth Rate
- YTD – Year to Date
🔹 Settlement & Accounts:
- DP – Depository Participant
- CDSL – Central Depository Services Limited
- NSDL – National Securities Depository Limited
- ISIN – International Securities Identification Number
- PAN – Permanent Account Number (for trading/investing)
- KYC – Know Your Customer
🔹 Derivatives & Futures:
- F&O – Futures and Options
- OI – Open Interest
- IV – Implied Volatility
- ATM – At the Money
- ITM – In the Money
- OTM – Out of the Money
- LOT Size – Minimum quantity to trade in F&O
🔹 Corporate Actions:
- Div – Dividend
- Bonus – Bonus Shares
- Split – Stock Split
- Buyback – Company buying its own shares
- Rights Issue – Additional shares offered to existing shareholders