AN EXAMINATION OF HOW DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS AFFECT THE TECHNICAL AND FUNDAMENTAL ANALYSIS PRACTICED BY RETAIL INVESTORSOF INDIAN STOCK MARKET

Abstract

As the stock market play a vital role for the liquidity of any companies' shares and after COVID - 19 investment from the retail investors increased significantly so before making investment in stock market whether the retail investors carried out any fundamental or technical analysis or not is the basic objective of the research. So the hypotheses of the study are whether the fundamental or technical analysis used by the retail investors differ significantly with regard to various demographic factors like gender, age, marital status and type of investor. In the present study researcher has collected data from the 100 retail investors by using convenience sampling through structured questionnaire and for testing the hypothesis researcher has used the non-parametric test i.e. Mann-Whitney U Test.