Articles By Conan Care

An online stock broker is an investor’s means of buying and selling shares via the Internet, just like a regular stock broker, wherein an individual or a brokerage firm acts as one’s link to the stock exchange. Are such services necessary? Is it, after all, not true that anyone can engage in online trading today, and that it is possible to invest in stocks with one’s own computer?

As in all other stock markets in the world, stock trading in India happens on an invisible market that handles the stocks of various companies from the public and private sectors. One can buy shares or sell one’s holdings based on the stock market quotes of these companies on any given trading day. Stocks trading in India used to take place on the basis of stock quotes give in the form of fractions. Those days are over now, and the decimal system has been introduced to make it easier to buy shares.