Knowledge Library
33 terms — from index basics to MarketRipple's own scoring language. Each entry is a real, written definition, not a one-line dictionary snippet.
NSE's benchmark index tracking the 50 largest, most liquid Indian companies by free-float market capitalization.
BSE's benchmark index of 30 large, established companies — India's oldest stock market index, running since 1986.
A sectoral index tracking the most liquid, large-cap banking stocks listed on the NSE.
India's 'fear gauge' — measures the market's expectation of Nifty volatility over the next 30 days.
The ratio of advancing stocks to declining stocks — a check on whether an index move is broad-based or narrow.
A price band that automatically halts trading in a stock or index if it moves too far, too fast.
The highest and lowest price a stock has traded at over the trailing 12 months.
The ratio of put option to call option trading volume (or open interest) — a sentiment gauge for options traders.
A company's total market value (share price × shares outstanding), used to bucket stocks into large-, mid-, and small-cap.
The shifting of investor capital from one sector to another as the economic cycle or market narrative changes.
Overseas institutions — funds, pension funds, insurers — that invest in Indian equities and debt from abroad.
Indian institutions — mutual funds, insurance companies, banks — investing domestic capital in Indian markets.
The interest rate at which the RBI lends short-term funds to commercial banks — India's key policy interest rate.
The six-member RBI committee that sets India's repo rate through a majority vote at scheduled policy meetings.
The Consumer Price Index — India's headline inflation measure, tracking the price change of a representative basket of goods and services.
The Wholesale Price Index — tracks price changes at the wholesale/producer level, ahead of consumer prices.
The gap between the government's total spending and its total revenue (excluding borrowings), usually expressed as a % of GDP.
How many rupees it takes to buy one US dollar — India's most-watched currency pair.
A stock's share price divided by its earnings per share — the most common shorthand for whether a stock looks 'expensive' or 'cheap'.
A stock's share price divided by its book value per share — compares market value to accounting net worth.
Annual dividend per share divided by share price — the cash-return percentage a stock pays out, independent of price appreciation.
Net profit divided by shareholders' equity — how efficiently a company turns shareholder capital into profit.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization — a measure of core operating profitability.
The first time a private company sells shares to the public and lists on a stock exchange.
Additional free shares issued to existing shareholders in a fixed ratio, funded from the company's reserves.
Dividing each existing share into multiple shares, reducing the price per share without changing total holding value.
MarketRipple's 0–100 measure of how significant a market event is likely to be, based on real evidence — never fabricated when evidence is insufficient.
How certain MarketRipple's AI is in a given score or prediction — shown separately from the score itself, never blended into it.
The chain of downstream consequences a single market event triggers — from the originating event through sectors, companies, and related asset classes.
MarketRipple's 0–100 ranking of investment opportunities, combining event impact, sector momentum, and historical precedent.
A label showing how mature the evidence behind a score is — not how big the number is, but how much you should trust it right now.
A 0–100 read of overall market mood, derived from real breadth data (how many stocks/indices are advancing vs. declining) — not a survey or guess.
A 0–100 score measuring how strong the momentum and news-driven attention behind an investment theme currently is.