Financial and economic meaning of Investment - Characteristics and objectives of investment - Investment alternatives - Choice and Evaluation - Concept of risk and return - Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act.

Financial Market - Segments - Types - Participants in financial Market - Regulatory Environment, Primary Market - Methods of floating new issues, Book building - Role of primary market - Stock exchanges in India - BSE, OTCEI, NSE, ISE - Regulations of stock exchanges - Trading system in stock exchanges - SEBI

Economic Analysis: Forecasting Techniques, Industry Analysis: Industry, Classification, Industry life cycle. Company Analysis: Measuring Earnings, Forecasting Earnings, Applied Valuation Techniques. – Graham and Dodds investor ratios.

Fundamental Analysis Vs Technical Analysis – Charting methods – Market Indicators. Trend –Trend reversals – Patterns - Moving Average – Exponential moving Average – Oscillators – Market Indicators – Efficient Market theory. ROC, MACD, RSI

Portfolio analysis –Portfolio Construction - Portfolio Selection –Capital Asset Pricing model – Portfolio Revision – Portfolio Evaluation – Mutual Funds.