Introduction to financial markets is the subject which helps students from commerce background to learn the basic in the marketing field. After this phase, students will have to come across the advance form of marketing skills.

Importance of Paper:

Paper is an important one as it will help students in their future course of business administration. Basic application of financial marketing is required in this field.

Paper Pattern:

Paper of Introduction to financial Markets II consists of 23 questions. These questions are kept in 5 sections. Each section is of different marks and no. of questions is different in each section. There is no alternative in any of the question. Questions asked are in straight way and paper is consisting of both numerical & theoretical questions.

Questions asked often:

Questions asked in the paper are such as net profit ratio, clearing and settlement & cases of it as examples, Temporary sign off, Trading member trading ID, F & O member, short note on risk management system, client-broker relationship in derivative segment, short note on Indian Companies Act, initial margin, advantages of installing a NEAT – F & O trading system in NSE, sub-broker’s duties towards the regulatory authorities, basket trading, term ETFs, advantages of trading in ETFs, circuit breaker, short note on Index Funds, benefits of trading in Derivatives, powers conferred on SEBI, sub-broker, bad delivery, investor protection fund, FTP, hedging etc.

Total marks & time:

Total marks allotted to the paper are 60 and time in which it is needed to be solved is 3 hours only. There are questions of both theoretical and numerical type, so there is less chance to score full marks in it.

Recommended Books:

• Introduction to Financial Markets-II by NCERT
• Introduction to Global Financial Markets by Stephen Valdez