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Declaration dates

2010-06-23T12:07:00.000-07:00

DSE Declaration Dates 2008 1

Dhaka Stock Exchange blue chips

2010-06-22T16:14:00.000-07:00

Dhaka Stock Exchange blue chips DSE20 contain 20 shares.

These are

ACI (ACI Limited)

AMCL(PRAN) (Agricultural Marketing Company Limited)

APEXTANRY (Apex Tannery Limited)

BATASHOE (Bata Shoe Bangladesh Limited)

BATBC (Brithish Amercian Tobacco Bangladesh Limited)

BDLAMPS (Bangladesh Lamps Limited)

BOC (Bangladesh Oxygen Company Limited)

BXPHARMA (Beximco Pharmaceuticals Limited)

DHAKABANK (Dhaka Bank Limited)

GQBALLPEN (GQ Ball Pen Industries)

ISLAMIBANK (Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited)

MEGHNACEM (Meghna Cement)

MONNOCERA (Monno Ceramic)

NBL (National Bank)

PRIMEBANK (Prime Bank)

SINGERBD (Singer Bangladesh)

SOUTHEASTB (South East Bank)

SQUARETEXT (Square Textiles)

SQURPHARMA (Square Pharmaceuticals)

UTTARAFIN (Uttara Finance and Investment)

Market Review

2010-06-22T15:53:00.000-07:00

Last day the market was up sharply. Banks led the move. But it's concern the volume was comparatively poor.

From the very beginning of the session banks shined. Later some NBFI and life insurance joined the rally.

The DESGI gained 106 points to close at 6207 and the trade volume was 1249 core which is much below than the recent average.

Bar Chart

2010-06-20T21:04:00.000-07:00

A bar chart is similar to candlestick chart. In a bar chart a bar (a vertical line) is used rather a candle to display the quote of securities. The top of the vertical line (bar) indicates the highest price of the day, bottom of the bar indicates lowest price of the day. The closing price is displayed on the right side of the bar, and the opening price is shown on the left side of the bar.

Body of Candlestick

2010-06-20T20:57:00.000-07:00

The body of the candlestick is the wide part of a candle that represent the range between open price and close price of a security within a specified period of time.

If the closing price is higher than the opening price the color of the candle will be green or white. If the closing price is lower than the opening price the color of the candle will be black or red.

Candlestick

2010-06-20T20:43:00.000-07:00

A candlestick is a price chart that displays the high, low, open and close of a security for a specified period of time. It can be a trading session, part of the trading session (intra-day), several trading sessions (weekly, monthly, yearly).

Technically strong market

2010-05-31T01:08:00.000-07:00

A market is said to be strong in technical sense (from the TA perspective) when the market is rising with good trade value. Even if it is falling with low trade value it is considered as technically strong market.

Technical Indicators

2010-05-28T21:57:00.000-07:00

Technical indicators are derived from Technical Analysis (TA). Technical indicators such as Average prices, charts, average volumes, relative strength index (RSI), money flow index, various stochastic and bands etc helps traders/investors identify better buy/sell position for a stock.

Though short-term traders rely heavily on technical indicators, long term investors also use it for better entry position. But it helps in no way to judge stock merits based on company performance. It is wholly used to guess speculative price movements.

Technical indicators are derived from studying active trading of a security in exchanges not from the fundamental values of financial statements or annual reports.

Fundamental Analysis

2010-05-27T09:45:00.000-07:00

Fundamental Analysis (FA) deals with the company's income sources, cash flow, financial statements, company health, profitability, company management, its competitive advantage, industry trend and many more to forecast the future sustainability of the company as well as future growth.

In a word Fundamental Analysis tries to know the business performance of a specific company.

After analyzing all the business prospect and future performance the analyst identifies a true value (intrinsic value) of the company. Then he compares the true value with market value to decide if the stock is undervalued or over valued.

If he finds the stock undervalued he decides to buy, if find it over valued he recommends a sell.

Technical Analysis

2010-05-27T09:13:00.000-07:00

Technical Analysis deals with the trade information. It study historical price volume data to forecast the future.

Technical analysis gets the price-volume information as input, process it and produces meaningful statistics and charts. Traders and investors then interpret those in a predefined manner to get bus/sell signals.

Technical Analysis (TA) doesn't care about the company performance. It only reads the trade performance of the company in the exchanges.

For example Company A trades only around 10million shares a day. But suddenly the chart shown the trade volume has increased significantly. A technical analyst will take it positively even the company may not disclosed any price sensitive information.