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سہولت اکاؤنٹ کیا ہے (sahulat account kya hai): کم کاغذی کارروائی، Rs 3 ملین کی حد (19 مارچ 2026 سے)، جو کام نہیں ہو سکتے اور نارمل اکاؤنٹ میں اپ گریڈ۔
READ →19 listed banks, Rs 4.69 trillion in market cap and a 6.6x median P/E on 9 Oct 2026. The SBP raised its rate to 12% on 26 Oct. What moves bank earnings.
READ →How to read a candlestick chart (chart kaise parhein): open, high, low, close, body and wick, shown on a real OGDC daily candle, plus PSX rules.
READ →KSE-100 closed October 2026 at 166,409.25, down 2.09% on 30 Sep. Volume, 100 members, sectors, 100 ex-dates, FIPI/LIPI and the SBP rate.
READ →پی ایس ایکس پر ڈیویڈنڈ فیس ویلیو کے فیصد میں اعلان ہوتا ہے۔ ایکس ڈیٹ، بُک کلوژر، T+1، ود ہولڈنگ ٹیکس اور زکوٰۃ کی آسان وضاحت۔
READ →کے ایس ای 100 پی ایس ایکس کی 100 کمپنیوں کا بینچ مارک ہے، بیس 1,000 پوائنٹس (1991)۔ 9 اکتوبر 2026 کو یہ 167,089.27 پر بند ہوا۔
READ →PSX dividend calendar for November 2026 as of 3 November: 30 expected ex-dates, 29 cash and one bonus; 19 still ahead. Last November had 28. Rupees per share.
READ →How to draw a trendline and a parallel channel on a PSX chart in SuperX Charts, and why a long line changes on a log scale. KSE-100 example, dated.
READ →The P/E ratio is price divided by trailing 12-month EPS. On 9 Oct 2026 the median PSX P/E was 9.4x, from 4.1x for REITs to 18.0x for modarabas.
READ →پی ایس ایکس میں شیئرز کیسے خریدیں: بروکر، UIN، CDC اکاؤنٹ، سہولت اکاؤنٹ کی Rs 3 million حد، فنڈنگ، پہلا آرڈر اور T+1 سیٹلمنٹ۔
READ →How to set a free PSX price alert in SuperX Charts: on a price, a drawn line, a percent move, unusual volume or a circuit lock. Limits stated plainly.
READ →شیئر مارکیٹ وہ جگہ ہے جہاں کمپنیوں کے شیئرز خریدے اور بیچے جاتے ہیں۔ پی ایس ایکس، مارکیٹ کیپ اور کے ایس ای 100 کا آسان تعارف۔
READ →A PSX price falls by about the dividend on the ex-date. Bonus and rights issues make bigger false gaps. See adjusted vs unadjusted on a real chart.
READ →Bollinger Bands are a 20-day average plus and minus 2 standard deviations. MEBL's bands on 16 Oct 2026, what a squeeze measures, and how to add them.
READ →Broker apps, Sarmaaya, Investify, StockIntel, FinHisaab, spreadsheets, CDC and SuperX compared on cost, brokers, dividends, import and Urdu (18 Oct 2026).
READ →How to download daily PSX price history for a stock or the KSE-100: the official PSX data portal, and a free CSV from SuperX Charts, adjusted or not.
READ →MACD is the 12-day EMA minus the 26-day EMA, with a 9-day signal line and a histogram. PPL's values on 16 Oct 2026, and how to add it in SuperX Charts.
READ →A PSX IPO strike price comes from a Dutch auction between a floor price and a band 40% above it. How it works, with the Rs 33.00 SOYASUP result.
READ →PSX company announcements by type: board meetings, results, book closure, material information, AGMs. What each means for a holder, with a real notice.
READ →How overseas Pakistanis buy PSX shares through a Roshan Digital Account: Roshan Equity Investment steps, documents, tax and SBP figures to Sept 2026.
READ →Fibonacci retracement splits a price swing at 23.6, 38.2, 50, 61.8 and 78.6%. Worked on DGKC with dated prices, and how to draw it in SuperX Charts.
READ →Free float is the share of a company's stock available to trade. PSX uses it to weight the KSE-100. FFC's is 55%, Ibrahim Fibres' is 5%.
READ →How to read the KSE 100 chart: candles, ranges, log vs linear, the 189,166.83 record close and the 22.6% fall to March 2026. Free in SuperX Charts.
READ →How many PSX stocks is enough? No number answers it. Measure the largest position, top-3 share, sector share and a Herfindahl index instead.
READ →Dividend yield divides dividends by today's price; yield on cost divides them by what you paid. FFC's Rs 41 gives 7.67% and 8.52% on two dated prices.
READ →Support and resistance are prices where a share has paused before. See how to draw them as zones on a PSX chart, with dated MCB bars and an alert.
READ →60 PSX stock market terms in Urdu script, Roman Urdu and plain English, grouped by accounts, orders, prices, dividends, fundamentals, flows and tax.
READ →Shares at more than one PSX broker? How to combine holdings, reconcile average cost and dividends by hand, and how SuperX's import will do it.
READ →Seven free ways to chart PSX stocks, compared on cost, delay, indicators, Urdu and mobile, with sources checked 18 Oct 2026. No tool is named best.
READ →The KSE-100 closed at a record 189,166.83 on 23 Jan 2026. Calendar and fiscal-year returns, the 22.6% drawdown that followed, and the latest level.
READ →TradingView shows PSX free at a 15-minute delay, or real-time for $3 a month. SuperX Charts is free with no account. A fact-checked comparison.
READ →Capital gains tax on PSX shares is 15% for filers on shares bought from 1 July 2024. Non-filers pay more. NCCPL deducts it. Rates by date, losses, example.
READ →The 15 highest trailing dividend yields among KSE-100 members as of 6 Sep 2026, with P/E and market cap, and a candid look at why a screener yield can mislead.
READ →How dividend withholding tax works in Pakistan: deducted at source, filer vs non-filer, how it shows on your statements, and reconciling gross with net.
READ →Draft prospectus, book building and the strike price, public subscription, balloting, allotment and listing on PSX, with the live IPO pipeline as of 6 Sep 2026.
READ →What a PSX rights issue is, how the letter of right (LOR) trades, what a right is worth, and subscribe vs sell vs lapse worked through with numbers.
READ →How PSX price bands create upper and lower locks, what a locked order book looks like, when the whole market halts, and what a lock means when you sell.
READ →How a PSX bonus issue works: the 20% example, why the price is divided by 1.2 on the ex-date, fractions, tax in principle and the cost-basis maths.
READ →What a CDC statement contains and leaves out, what a broker screenshot shows, the SYMBOL SHARES PRICE paste format, and how screenshot import should work.
READ →What a Sahulat account is, who it suits, the reduced paperwork, the investment ceiling, what it cannot do, and how to upgrade to a full brokerage account.
READ →The three dates on every PSX dividend notice, how T+1 settlement fixes the buy-by date, and what happens to the price and payout if you buy on the ex-date.
READ →Today's silver-standard nisab in rupees, what counts as zakatable in a PSX portfolio, the 2.5% rate, the CDC deduction most people misread, and when to pay.
READ →The top 15 KSE-100 companies by weight as of 11 Sep 2026, why free-float weighting lets ten names carry half the index, and what that means for you.
READ →What each PSX index measures, how the KMI-30 screens for Shariah compliance, and which to compare your own portfolio against, with dated one-year returns.
READ →The business screen and five financial ratio tests a PSX company must pass for the KMI-30, how impure income is purified, and when the list is reviewed.
READ →NCCPL's foreign and local investor portfolio flows, the eleven client types behind them, how to read a net figure, and what the last 90 days of data show.
READ →PSX Friday timing: 9:17 am–12:00 pm and 2:32–4:30 pm PKT, with a Jumu'ah break. Closing time 4:30 pm on Friday, 3:30 pm Monday to Thursday.
READ →Why a 725% dividend is Rs 72.50 a share, how book closure and the ex-date decide who gets paid under T+1 settlement, and cash vs bonus vs right issues.
READ →Market cap is shares times price. Why a Rs 5 stock can be a bigger company than a Rs 500 one, free float vs total, and how it drives index weights and P/E.
READ →Sub-account vs direct CDC Investor Account, the documents you need, how CDC Access statements work, and the Roshan Digital route for overseas Pakistanis.
READ →How to buy shares in Pakistan: pick a PSX-listed broker, get a UIN and CDC account, fund it, place your first order. Sahulat limit Rs 3m; T+1.
READ →The KSE-100 is PSX's benchmark of 100 free-float-weighted companies, base 1,000 in 1991. It closed at 167,089 on 9 Oct 2026, up 2.45% in a year.
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