“Sensex” and “Nifty” are the words related to stock market. But what do these words actually mean? Both Sensex and Nifty are the market indexes/indices that represent the market. They are the touchstones for any country’s stock market, for the outgrowth in the industry as well as for the individual investor’s portfolio.
The term Intraday Trading means that the buying and selling of the stocks are done on the same day. While buying stock, the person has to specifically mention ‘intraday’ on the portal through which he is buying stocks. Through this trading, the traders earn money by buying or selling stocks and derivatives on the same day from price fluctuations at given point of time. The profits earned on this intraday trading of stocks are speculative gains and loss as speculative loss.
Nifty and Sensex, both are calculated based on free-float market capitalisation method. Similar to nifty, sensex is also reflector of market.