When a newbie enters the stock market, one of the first questions that come to their mind is How to follow stock Market? Here, by following the stock market, we mean how to know the share prices of the Indian companies, market index, or the most basic paraments of the market.
For seasoned investors, it’s easier to follow the stock market as they have been doing it for years. They already know lots of websites or apps to track and follow stocks or indexes. However, for beginners, they might get easily confused about how to follow stock market, and may even feel silly asking this basic question to a mature investor.
If you’re one such stock market beginner, do not worry. We have got you covered. In this post, we going to exactly teach you how to follow stock market. These few simple tricks about following the stock market and its trends, which once known, even a beginner can follow the market like a pro.
Please note that although this post about ‘how to follow stock market’ is basically targeted for beginners, however, intermediate and advanced level investors can also get benefits from this article. Do read it till the end to get the maximum benefits. Also, there is a bonus tip for the readers in the last section. Let’s get started.
How to follow Stock Market?
Here are a few of the simple yet powerful websites from where you can follow stock market. Below, we have also described how to easily navigate and use these sites efficiently. Here it goes:
1. Google Search
Google is the first and easiest source to follow a stock. Just type the name of the stock and google will give you all the details about that stock. For example, if you want to follow the stock of Tata Motors and want to know its, just type ‘Tata motors share price’ on google. The result will be like this:
Please note that here you have to type “Company name + Share” or “Company name + Stock” to get the stock details.
Further, On Google, you can track the share price movement of the stock for a given period of 1 day, 5day, 1 month, 1 year, 5 years or max, by simply clicking on different tabs. For example, if you click on ‘1 month’ in the tab, you can see the price movement of that stock for the last 1 month i.e. how the share price moved in the last 30 days to date.
The best part is that the simplicity of google makes it best for beginners to start following the market. The only disadvantage of tracking stock market prices on Google is that you have to type the names of different stocks every time when you want to track that stocks. If you have many stocks to track, say more than 10 (Ex Reliance, Tata Steel, HPCL, ONGC, BPCL, Titan, Infosys…..) then it will become a hectic job for you as you have to type the stock name over and over again. Here a shortcut is “Following” the stock or creating a watchlist.
Nevertheless, Google is the first place for all the beginners where they can learn how to follow the stock market. Therefore, you should also get used to it. Try googling the stock price of a few stocks and indexes on google on your own now.
Exercise: Type “Nifty50” on google and see what appears.
Further, also try different stocks that you are interested in. This is the first step to learn how to follow stock market. In case, you do not remember much names, here is a list of few major stocks in NIFTY50 that you can search:
Name | Industry | Weight | |
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1. | Reliance Industries Ltd. | Energy - Oil & Gas | 10.56% |
2. | HDFC Bank Ltd. | Banking | 8.87% |
3. | Infosys Ltd. | Information Technology | 8.62% |
5. | ICICI Bank Ltd. | Banking | 6.72% |
4. | Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd. | Financial Services | 6.55% |
6. | Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. | Information Technology | 4.96% |
7. | Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. | Banking | 3.91% |
10. | Larsen & Toubro Ltd. | Construction | 2.89% |
8. | Hindustan Unilever Ltd. | Consumer Goods | 2.81% |
11. | ITC Ltd. | Consumer Goods | 2.63% |
13. | Bajaj Finance Ltd. | Financial Services | 2.52% |
12. | State Bank of India | Banking | 2.40% |
14. | Bharti Airtel Ltd. | Telecommunication | 2.33% |
9. | AXIS Bank Ltd. | Banking | 2.29% |
14. | Asian Paints Ltd. | Consumer Goods | 1.92% |
16. | HCL Technologies Ltd. | Information Technology | 1.68% |
23. | Bajaj Finserv Ltd. | Financial Services | 1.41% |
24. | Titan Company Ltd. | Consumer Goods | 1.35% |
25. | Tech Mahindra Ltd. | Information Technology | 1.30% |
17. | Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. | Automobile | 1.28% |
19. | Wipro Ltd. | Information Technology | 1.28% |
20. | UltraTech Cement Ltd. | Cement | 1.17% |
18. | Tata Steel Ltd. | Metals | 1.14% |
30. | Tata Motors Ltd. | Automobile | 1.12% |
22. | Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. | Pharmaceuticals | 1.10% |
21. | Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. | Automobile | 1.09% |
31. | Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. | Energy - Power | 0.96% |
28. | Nestle India Ltd. | Consumer Goods | 0.93% |
32. | Grasim Industries Ltd. | Cement | 0.86% |
33. | HDFC Life Insurance Co. Ltd. | Insurance | 0.86% |
34. | Divi’s Laboratories Ltd. | Pharmaceuticals | 0.84% |
36. | Hindalco Industries Ltd. | Metals | 0.82% |
26. | JSW Steel Ltd. | Metals | 0.82% |
35. | NTPC Ltd. | Energy - Power | 0.82% |
27. | Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. | Pharmaceuticals | 0.77% |
29. | IndusInd Bank Ltd. | Banking | 0.72% |
44. | Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. | Energy - Oil & Gas | 0.70% |
41. | SBI Life Insurance Co. | Insurance | 0.69% |
38. | Adani Port and Special Economic Zone | Infrastructure | 0.68% |
39. | Cipla Ltd. | Pharmaceuticals | 0.67% |
40. | Tata Consumer products Ltd. | Consumer Goods | 0.63% |
37. | Bajaj Auto Ltd. | Automobile | 0.57% |
45. | Britannia Industries Ltd. | Consumer Goods | 0.57% |
42. | UPL Ltd. | Chemicals | 0.51% |
43. | Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. | Energy - Oil & Gas | 0.48% |
48. | Shree Cement Ltd. | Cement | 0.47% |
47. | Eicher Motors Ltd. | Automobile | 0.45% |
49. | Coal India Ltd. | Mining | 0.43% |
46. | Hero MotoCorp Ltd. | Automobile | 0.43% |
50. | Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. | Energy - Oil & Gas | 0.41% |
NOTE: Do not search Facebook, Google, Apple’s stock price. Although you can find the share details of these companies, but the stock prices will be shown in dollars on Google. This is because these are foreign stocks and listed in foreign stock exchanges, not India. They trade in foreign currency.
Only Indian companies are listed on Indian Stock Exchanges. Therefore, companies like Apple, Facebook, Samsung, etc that are not Indian companies can’t be traded in India. They are listed on their respective country’s stock exchange. For example- Facebook on New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Samsung on South Korea Exchange, etc.
2. Trade Brains Portal
First of all, if you are confused about where to get started, you can start by visiting the ALL STOCKS page at Trade Brains Portal. Here, you’ll get the list of all the +5,000 publically listed companies in India and also their industry. You can start researching on this page to at least know Indian stocks and what stock investment options are available to you.
Next, you can make a watchlist of stocks on Trade Brains Portal. This means that you can save stocks in your own created list for tracking their price movements and also you can set a target price. Let’s say you add 10 stocks to your watchlist. Now, you just have to go to your watchlist whenever you want to follow the stocks or market.
(Image: Watchlist of Trade Brains Portal)
Trade Brains Portal – How to use for Stock Research?
3. Moneycontrol
Moneycontrol is probably the oldest and most popular website in India if you want to learn how to follow stock market. The website gives you all the info you want to know about a stock along with the latest financial news. In addition, moneycontrol also offers a mobile app, which is in fact even better than the website. You can download the app and easily follow the market using it.
On the website or app, enter the stock name on the top search box and you will get all the details that you wish to see. You can read this article if you wish to know more about moneycontrol features:
Money Control App – Best hacks for Beginners
4. Screener.in
Screener.in is another of the powerful financial website for fundamental analysis of stocks. One of the good features of this site is that the last 10 Years’ financial reports of all the Indian companies are available here.
In addition, you can also download data from this website in excel form. Further, you can add stocks to your Wishlist to get notifications in your mail the alerts if there is any corporate action on the stocks in your Wishlist. Therefore, you can easily stay updated with the latest news like quarterly results, dividend dates, etc once you log in to the site and add the stock names to your Wishlist.
5. Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance and Google Finance are the most searched finances website for stock market analysis. This website is very resourceful to learn how to follow stock market and contains massive data of stocks along with the latest news and other powerful tools. Yahoo Finance is very friendly and you will get all the major information which you want to learn about the stock here.
Summary
In this post, we tried to cover e major sources on how to follow stock market. Surely, there are many other websites too that can be used if you want to keep up-to-date with the market trends. However, for beginners, we recommend you to first familiarize yourself with these websites and get used to how to get the stock information from these sites. Definitely, these websites will give you all the information that you want to learn about the stock market. Do check them out.
Here is a summary of links to all the financial websites discussed in this post for your ease.
- Google:http://www.google.com
- Money control:http://www.moneycontrol.com
- Screener: https://www.screener.in
- Economic Times market:http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets
- Yahoo Finance:https://in.finance.yahoo.com
That’s all for this post. If you think we missed any big website that needs to be mentioned in our post on how to follow stock market, please comment below. We will be happy to get feedback. Have a great day and happy investing!
Kritesh Abhishek
Kritesh (Tweet here) is the Founder & CEO of Trade Brains & FinGrad. He is an NSE Certified Equity Fundamental Analyst with +7 Years of Experience in Share Market Investing. Kritesh frequently writes about Share Market Investing and IPOs and publishes his personal insights on the market.
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Poojaon April 7, 2017 at 10:58 am
Amazing Post. I am new to stock market and this blog post helped me a lot!!!!!!
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Kriteshon April 13, 2017 at 9:28 pm
Thank you Pooja :))
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Adityaon April 7, 2017 at 11:06 am
nicely explained post.. Very helpful…
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Kriteshon April 13, 2017 at 9:29 pm
Thanks a lot. I am glad the article helped you 🙂
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DiceView.comon April 13, 2017 at 6:42 pm
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Kriteshon April 13, 2017 at 9:26 pm
Thank You 🙂 Appreciate a lot!
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Kriteshon June 1, 2017 at 1:34 pm
Sure! I will write another post with elaborated details about how to follow stock market. Join my blog’s newsletter to keep updated.
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Raghavon August 11, 2017 at 12:20 pm
Which is Best Trading?
Intraday or Long-term?
Where to start?Reply
Kriteshon August 11, 2017 at 3:01 pm
Your startergy depends on your preference, time and knowlegdge. I am a long term investor and will suggest the same to you.You can start with making small investments. Make a wishlist of few stocks and follow them for few weeks before investing.
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Suraj Mandalon September 12, 2017 at 2:14 pm
Thanks a lot,
I am new to stock market and your blog very helpful for us.Reply
Kriteshon September 12, 2017 at 5:59 pm
You are welcome Suraj.
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Surya Sudhakaron October 24, 2017 at 7:21 am
I would like to invest in long term shares.I have no idea.Please help me.I am new to the market
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Kriteshon October 28, 2017 at 10:21 am
Hi Surya. Glad to hear that you are interested in investing. I am launching a new course on stock market due December’17 for beginners so that they can learn how to invest in the market for consistent returns. You can find the course here.
In the mean time, you can find this post about fundamental analysis useful. Cheers!Reply
Irfanon October 31, 2017 at 3:07 pm
Really appreciate it!
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Kriteshon November 1, 2017 at 5:56 pm
Thank your Irfan.
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Awadhooton November 8, 2017 at 3:32 pm
Very nice info.
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Kriteshon November 9, 2017 at 8:39 am
Glad you liked it Awadhoot.
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Anurag Nalawadeon January 14, 2018 at 6:02 pm
Thank you Kritesh. This was helpful.
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Anurag Nalawadeon January 14, 2018 at 6:05 pm
Thank you Kritesh. This was very helpful and one of the more simpler online articles on how to start investing in Stocks.
I would like to request for some additional information. Can you please help with your contact information ?Reply
Kritesh Abhishekon January 14, 2018 at 7:45 pm
Hi Anurag. You’re welcome. Further, you can connect me via mail at [emailprotected]
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Snehaon February 27, 2018 at 4:17 pm
This was indeed helpful for a starter like me. Thank you Kritesh!
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Kritesh Abhishekon March 5, 2018 at 1:00 pm
You are welcome Sneha.
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Sukhdevon March 5, 2018 at 11:41 am
Great sir.well explained in simple way about stock market. Waiting for more useful posts.thanks
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Kritesh Abhishekon April 3, 2018 at 11:27 pm
Glad it’s helpful.
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Nice post!I am new to stock market and your blog very helpful for us.its very knowledgeable post for me keep sharing more post like this it really helps me for the stock market.
Thank you.Reply
Durga Dass Thakuron May 30, 2018 at 8:13 pm
Dear Abhishek ji Really Very nice post. I am new to stock market just entered in April 2018. Your blog is very helpful for beginner. I recommends all beginner to go through your blog and e-mail course “beginner guide” before investing in stock market.
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Kritesh Abhishekon June 1, 2018 at 3:05 pm
Thank you Mr Durga Thakur. Glad it is helpful.
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TINAon July 12, 2018 at 12:19 pm
Thank u Kritesh, this blog is very useful and explained in simple manner to learn beginners like me.
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Kritesh Abhishekon July 18, 2018 at 11:35 pm
You are welcome, Tina.
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Priyanka Yadavon August 19, 2018 at 1:17 pm
Thank you Kritesh for sharing details. I am new in this field and wants to make my carrier. request you to guide me.
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Kritesh Abhishekon August 27, 2018 at 9:03 am
Thank you, Ashwin!
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Excellent one Kritesh. Thank you.
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Hello Mr. Kritesh A.
Thank you so much for the information. Now I feel excited to invest in stocks. I had lot of phobia about the equity market but after reading your articles I feel even I can experiment in stocks.Reply
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