HAVE you been following with great interest the stock markets turn bullish and break the upper barrier? Are the stock market prices the first page you look at in a daily? Do you enjoy sitting at home on Saturday evenings, working out your gains and losses? If so, then probably a stockbroker’s profession is ideal for you.

Stocks and shares is a method to raise funds from the public for use by the government or private companies. Until a couple of decades, Mumbai was India’s first and only stock exchange and few industries were listed in the share market. Today, there is a stock exchange in every metropolitan city, where business worth crores takes place everyday. Moreover, now the National Stock Exchange (NSE), established in 1994, provides nationwide trading facilities with access to investors all over the country.