Offline and
Online Share Trading
Online Share Trading
Doing share trading with help of computer, internet connection and with trading and demat account is called Online Share Trading. If you would like to do online share trading then you need to have a computer, internet connection and online trading account. If you are planning to do trading yourself then opening online share trading account is advisable.
Basically people use online share trading who want to trade themselves.
Essential of Online Share Trading
1) Online trading account - You have to open an online trading account with any of the bank or financial trading system like There will be nominal annual charges but in fact nowadays some of them are offering free accounts.
To have the list of brokers please see the bottom of this page. Please also read the certain precautions which you need to take while opening the demat and trading account
Doing share trading with help of computer, internet connection and with trading and demat account is called Online Share Trading. If you would like to do online share trading then you need to have a computer, internet connection and online trading account. If you are planning to do trading yourself then opening online share trading account is advisable.
Basically people use online share trading who want to trade themselves.
Essential of Online Share Trading
1) Online trading account - You have to open an online trading account with any of the bank or financial trading system like There will be nominal annual charges but in fact nowadays some of them are offering free accounts.
To have the list of brokers please see the bottom of this page. Please also read the certain precautions which you need to take while opening the demat and trading account
2) A
computer with internet connection but nowadays some people do trading in
internet cafe. Due to fall in electronic prices the computers are available at
very affordable prices in the market. If you have electricity problems then you
also need to have inverter.
Nowadays you can get internet enabled on your cell phone (which is called GPRS) whose speed will be sufficient to do trading and also the charges of GPRS are very nominal. Also internet broadband connection is available.
Nowadays you can get internet enabled on your cell phone (which is called GPRS) whose speed will be sufficient to do trading and also the charges of GPRS are very nominal. Also internet broadband connection is available.
3) After
successfully opening the online trading account you will receive the username
and password with the help of which you can login in online trading system and
trade yourself.
4) The trading system executive (with whom you opened trading account) will help you initially about how to use the online trading system.
But in fact you can request for demonstration of their trading system before you open the trading account with them.
Once you get familiar with the system then you can trade yourself at your home or in the internet cafe.
Benefits of Online Share Trading
1) There is no need to depend on any broker or anybody else to place the order or to square off your order. In short you are the boss of your own to do trading (buying and selling) of shares.
2) Its reliable, convenient and you can take your own decisions yourself by actual seeing or analyzing the market on the computer screen instead of calling the broker all the time.
3) It’s not possible or practical for a broker to update you about each and everything about the share market, news which will influence or affect the share market. Because he may be having many other customers like you and even if he updates you it would be late and this news would have been affected the concerned sector or share. So if you are doing online trading yourself, then you may save yourself from big disaster by booking profit or by coming out of the stock.
4) You will get news and updates on various websites and also on your online trading system and most of the information will be free of cost.
Please note - “Always remember share market always get influences (or affected) by the appropriate news. So get updated or be in touch with news all the time. This will benefit you always.
5) By doing online trading yourself, you can see and judge where market (or your share) is heading by seeing different graphs online yourself, which is not possible if you’re trading through broker. Some online trading systems have graphs integrated in their system, so your job is to just add those graphs and check the status of current market (or share) and depending on your analysis you can take steps towards successfully trading.
6) All your transactions and related documents can be seen online and can also be downloaded to your PC without depending on your broker.
You can also check the status of your amount on daily basis through you online trading system.
4) The trading system executive (with whom you opened trading account) will help you initially about how to use the online trading system.
But in fact you can request for demonstration of their trading system before you open the trading account with them.
Once you get familiar with the system then you can trade yourself at your home or in the internet cafe.
Benefits of Online Share Trading
1) There is no need to depend on any broker or anybody else to place the order or to square off your order. In short you are the boss of your own to do trading (buying and selling) of shares.
2) Its reliable, convenient and you can take your own decisions yourself by actual seeing or analyzing the market on the computer screen instead of calling the broker all the time.
3) It’s not possible or practical for a broker to update you about each and everything about the share market, news which will influence or affect the share market. Because he may be having many other customers like you and even if he updates you it would be late and this news would have been affected the concerned sector or share. So if you are doing online trading yourself, then you may save yourself from big disaster by booking profit or by coming out of the stock.
4) You will get news and updates on various websites and also on your online trading system and most of the information will be free of cost.
Please note - “Always remember share market always get influences (or affected) by the appropriate news. So get updated or be in touch with news all the time. This will benefit you always.
5) By doing online trading yourself, you can see and judge where market (or your share) is heading by seeing different graphs online yourself, which is not possible if you’re trading through broker. Some online trading systems have graphs integrated in their system, so your job is to just add those graphs and check the status of current market (or share) and depending on your analysis you can take steps towards successfully trading.
6) All your transactions and related documents can be seen online and can also be downloaded to your PC without depending on your broker.
You can also check the status of your amount on daily basis through you online trading system.
2) Offline
Share Trading
Doing share trading with the help of broker or through telephone is called offline share trading.
In other words trading will be done by another person on your behalf based on the instructions given by you. The other person would be a broker.
The broker will do buying and selling of shares on your behalf depending on the instructions given by you. So in offline share trading you don’t need to have computer, internet connection but you need to have the offline demat account.
Doing share trading with the help of broker or through telephone is called offline share trading.
In other words trading will be done by another person on your behalf based on the instructions given by you. The other person would be a broker.
The broker will do buying and selling of shares on your behalf depending on the instructions given by you. So in offline share trading you don’t need to have computer, internet connection but you need to have the offline demat account.
