Every term is defined twice: once the way a filing would put it, and once the way somebody would explain it to you across a table. The second one is usually the one that sticks.
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The Ichimoku lagging line: today’s close plotted twenty-six bars into the past.
Carries no forward information at all. It only tells you whether price is above where it was twenty-six bars ago.
A short, tight, low-volume drift against a sharp preceding move, which then resolves in the original direction.
The drying volume is what makes it a flag: profit-taking is being absorbed without difficulty. Past about three weeks it has become a distribution range instead.
The correlation of a series with itself at a lag — whether today’s move says anything about tomorrow’s.
Positive means moves tend to continue, which is what a breakout system needs. Negative means they tend to reverse, which is what a pull-back system needs. Around zero means neither system has anything to work with.
A model that combines eight ratios to flag the statistical pattern of earnings manipulation.
Above −1.78 is the warning side — less negative is worse. A smoke detector that tells you where to read, not a verdict.
Cement mixed with fly ash or slag, needing less clinker per tonne.
Cheaper to make and lower in emissions; a higher share of blended cement lowers a company’s cost per tonne.
The long boom-and-bust pattern in commodity prices driven by capacity lagging demand.
High prices invite new supply, which arrives late and crushes prices. Then nobody invests, and it repeats.
The lag between capital being spent and the resulting revenue arriving.
The stretch where reported numbers look worst and screens mark the company down.
Passing changes in input costs on to customers through the selling price, often with a lag.
The lag is why margins dip when feedstock rises and briefly widen when it falls.
Cash actually received by a developer from buyers.
Sales that do not collect are not sales. A sustained lag means construction has stalled.
A business whose demand holds up regardless of the economy.
FMCG, pharma, utilities. Steadier earnings, higher multiples, lags in recoveries.
Cash generated by the core business, after working-capital movements.
Compare five years of this against five years of net profit. Divergence is the red flag.
Remuneration paid to the controlling family in executive roles.
Rising promoter pay with no dividend and flat profit is the clearest red flag in the note.
A tilt towards high return on capital, low debt and stable earnings.
Works well through most conditions and lags badly in sharp recoveries from a bottom.
The return on equity a regulator permits an asset to earn, built into the allowed revenue alongside approved capital cost, depreciation, operations and maintenance and interest.
The commission sets a return rather than a price, so the analysis moves to the allowance and the disallowances. Regulatory lag is where the margin actually goes: between an input cost rising and a tariff order recognising it, the company funds the gap itself.
The tendency of money to move between sectors as the economic cycle and rates change.
A sector moving from laggard to leader is more useful than one that has already led for a year.
The separate exchange segments for small and medium enterprises, with lighter vetting, far higher minimum lot sizes and much thinner post-listing liquidity than the main board.
SEBI has repeatedly flagged inflated subscription figures, circular funding of applications and post-listing manipulation here. Good companies do list; the base rate is not favourable.
A tilt towards stocks cheap relative to earnings, book value or cash flow.
Lagged for most of the 2010s, which is exactly the kind of stretch that makes people abandon a factor before it works.