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STUDY ON THE STOCK FUTURES VERSUS INDEX FUTURES for the period 2000-2012

Prepared By, Abhijit Sarkar, BAM10018 Debojit Chauhan, BAM10030, MBA (4th Semester), Tezpur University, Assam

Submitted to: Mr. Arup Roy, Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, Tezpur University

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:

A study on the stock futures versus Index futures

To study the performance of Individual stock futures vis-a-vis the Index futures over a period of 12 months from 2000-2012.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVE:
To locate the industries and the commodities involved in the futures exchange in India. To study the impact of global and national ques on the Index futures and the stock futures. To understand the use the concepts of Index Futures and Stock futures and their use as tools for Hedging. To Study the performance of the futures market segment in India.

RESEARCH DESIGN: The research design is explanatory.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY: A detailed and a thorough comparative study of the data collected from NSE & the BSE websites would be carried out.

TOOLS USED: MS-Excel

DATA SOURCES: Primary Data Sources: The Data was mainly collected by regular tracking of the stock markets. Secondary Data Sources: The Historical data relating to the F&O segment was collected from the NSE and the BSE websites.

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