Stocks that perform well in the market are known as top stocks.

Summary:

1. History of Stock Market

2. Top stock introduction

3. Factors governing the stocks

4. Top stocks under different sections

In the olden days, the individual buyers and sellers were the investors. These groups constituted of mostly wealthy businessmen. With the passage of time, more institutionalization of markets took place, and larger institutions like banks, insurance companies, pension funds, mutual funds, and so on took the position of buyers and sellers. The improvisation of market took place with the institutionalization. The small investor got the reduction of fees that was to be paid to the broken that were fixed by then government and due to this, western governance was hit.

According to Braudel, every form of trade association was set up, and knowledge of every method of credit and payment was known to 11th century Islamic and Jewish merchants. The joint stock companies were first started by Dutch, according to which shareholders could invest in the businesses and reap both the profits and losses. The first stock exchange was started way back in early seventeenth century, and The Amsterdam Stock Exchange was considered as the one. Moreover, continuous trade was given to it by Dutch.

The shares offered by the companies to the general public are known as stocks or securities of the respective companies. In other words, the companies allow the public to enjoy the profits or losses incurred by it. The companies decide how many shares will be released for public offer after consulting with rules and regulations of Securities and Exchange board of the countries that a company belongs to. This decision is taken after analyzing the infrastructure, revenues generated per year, background of the company, and other assets of the company that offers to go public. The bad reputation or black marks of the company is also verified by the board after accepting the application and before allowing the company to be listed in the stock market.

The stock market categorizes according to the performance of the stocks. They are rated as follows:

Top rated stocks and bottom rated stocks.

The stocks that generally perform extremely well throughout the year giving the investors good impression about it are known as top rated stocks. Rich benefits are derived from top stocks by the investors. Even in the case of market crash, top stocks which go to bottom level of their value and recover fast to reach once again the level of value at which they were trading before the crash. Long term perspective of top stocks is very attractive for the shareholders. Risks are considerably less when compared to average rated stocks. Shareholders can expect lot of sops from these top stocks.

Top stocks also allow more of investors to enter the stock at reasonable price. Top stocks are more stable in their fluctuations. One need not panic after buying top stocks. Highly reputed company stocks are called as Top Stocks before their listing takes place in the market. First priority is given to top stocks by many financial institutions, fund managers and so on. Generally we have seen the investment from top mutual fund companies. Extensive research is done on the stocks to place under the category of top stocks. Investment comes from different countries for these stocks in addition to the investment made from their own country investors. Recent trading history of Top stocks and that of the past is marvelous. Special reports about the technical features are also published in the journals, business news paper, books, and so on.

The fund managers also play a vital role in making the stocks to become top rated stocks. Initially these stocks are given high priority and often talked more before the actual investment is done by the fund managers. Special approach is shown by the fund managers in dealing with top rated stocks. Other factors are taken into consideration like flow of money from neighboring countries into these stocks. The fund managers also calculate well before doing any investment on top stocks about the amount of decent returns they are going to get by visualizing it properly.

Generally huge investments come in to these stocks. This creates a lot of interest and common investors are inclined to it very much. Futures and Options of these stocks are very much reliable and are safe to trade in top stocks. From the statistics available many do betting on the futures considering their strength and options are preferred on top stocks often due to their stability either in decreasing trend or also for the increasing trend. Top stocks have strong resistance and even support levels from where we do not see much decline in its price levels. The top stocks have definite price target for each level and they achieve the specified target in a given time so that consolidation of the stock begins to take place.

The stocks are rated top under the four sections. Those sections are factor, capitalization, sector, and growth. Fundamental, Ownership, Technical, and Valuation are grouped under factor. Large Cap, Mid Cap, Small Cap, and Micro Cap are the important points under capitalization section. Basic Industries, Capital Goods, Consumer Durables, Consumer Non-Durables, Consumer Services, Energy, Finance, Health Care, Miscellaneous, Public Utilities, Technology, and Transportation are grouped under different sectors. Growth and style are grouped under style.