The Incremental Investor

India's premier stock index, the Sensex ended the day yesterday at 19956 points just shy of 20000.  The important point to note that it is the first time in a week that it decisively ended below the 20K mark. The fall of close to 150 points is quite significant. And this means that this is likely to exert psychological pressure downwards. The apparent reason for this extent of an intra-day fall in the Sensex is reaction to jitters in the Euro area which was rocked by protests in some countries over austerity measures proposed by ECB to bring the area countries' sovereign debt load under control. There could be some credence to the mainstream view that liquidity and buying pressure from the FII's that has taken the Sensex rally so far to the 20K.  It is interesting to note that while stock markets in the US  (DJIA) were languishing in the 10200-10500 range from May thru August 2010, Emerging Stock markets kept going higher. Indonesia has now surpassed...

While stock picking or stock selection is not the easiest of tasks in investing, stock screening is one of the good starting points in this process. Internet and technology has made it very convenient to screen stocks, funds and ETF's for further study and analysis Finance sites such as Yahoo, MSN and IBD provide very helpful stock screeners For Indian stock buffs, there do not seem to be very many free options. ICICI Direct has good stock screeners, but I guess it is available only for members, unless there is a way to get around its Research section and jump to the screeners The free ones are : http://money.rediff.com/money/jsp/markets_home.jsp http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/stockmarket/industryclassification/23/17/marketstatistics/NSE/indcomp http://idbipaisabuilder.in/Market_Content/Secure_Css.aspx http://www.business-standard.com/india/markets/ IDBI paisabuilder is only one that can be considered a parametric screener. The others are more of classified stock lists with the...