# Welcome to our “Did You Know?” thread!
**URL:** https://community.aliceblueonline.com/t/welcome-to-our-did-you-know-thread/14029
**Category:** Educational insights
**Created:** [December 3, 2025, 6:05am UTC](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/t/welcome-to-our-did-you-know-thread/14029 "2025-12-03T06:05:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Rakshitha\_M](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/u/Rakshitha_M)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2025, 6:05am UTC](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/t/welcome-to-our-did-you-know-thread/14029/1 "2025-12-03T06:05:07Z")
This is your space to share market facts, trading insights, simple statistics, and interesting financial trivia.
Post what surprised you and help the community learn one fact at a time.
---
### Author:  [@Rakshitha\_M](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/u/Rakshitha_M)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2025, 6:11am UTC](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/t/welcome-to-our-did-you-know-thread/14029/2 "2025-12-03T06:11:29Z")
Starting the thread with our first official **Did You Know?** \* fact
More interesting insights coming soon.
## **Did You Know?**
The **world’s first stock exchange started in 1602** It was the **Amsterdam Stock Exchange** , created by the Dutch East India Company, basically the birthplace of modern capitalism.
---
### Author:  [@JK1](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/u/JK1)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2025, 6:25am UTC](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/t/welcome-to-our-did-you-know-thread/14029/3 "2025-12-03T06:25:01Z")
The richest investors make most of their money during market crashes.
Historically, the biggest fortunes were built by buying _when everyone else is panicking._
---
### Author:  [@Deepak\_Choubey](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/u/Deepak_Choubey)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2025, 6:30am UTC](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/t/welcome-to-our-did-you-know-thread/14029/4 "2025-12-03T06:30:11Z")
During the COVID-19 crash in March 2020, the S&P 500 triggered four market-wide trading halts in just ten days?
Traders were literally watching the screen turn redder than a stop sign as volatility hit levels not seen since 1987. Wild times.
---
### Author:  [@Hemanth\_Balaji](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/u/Hemanth_Balaji)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2025, 10:08am UTC](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/t/welcome-to-our-did-you-know-thread/14029/5 "2025-12-03T10:08:00Z")
The Bombay Stock Exchange traded stocks under a banyan tree in the 1800s, before it ever had a building.
---
### Author:  [@Rakshitha\_M](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/u/Rakshitha_M)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2025, 10:19am UTC](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/t/welcome-to-our-did-you-know-thread/14029/6 "2025-12-03T10:19:05Z")
The facts are so interesting.
---
### Author:  [@Chintada\_Bindu](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/u/Chintada_Bindu)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2025, 10:22am UTC](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/t/welcome-to-our-did-you-know-thread/14029/7 "2025-12-03T10:22:34Z")
The biggest risk to Indian investors is not the market — it’s taxation.
Short-term trades can lose up to:
30%+ income tax
STT
GST on brokerage
---
### Author:  [@Boni\_Vamsi](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/u/Boni_Vamsi)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2025, 10:23am UTC](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/t/welcome-to-our-did-you-know-thread/14029/8 "2025-12-03T10:23:32Z")
You don’t actually “own” most of the stocks you buy. Your shares usually sit in the name of a clearing corporation, not yours you only own beneficial rights, not direct legal title.
---
### Author:  [@Bindu\_chintada](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/u/Bindu_chintada)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2025, 10:25am UTC](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/t/welcome-to-our-did-you-know-thread/14029/9 "2025-12-03T10:25:02Z")
The biggest risk to Indian investors is not the market — it’s taxation.
Short-term trades can lose up to:
30%+ income tax
STT
GST on brokerage
---
### Author:  [@Navyaswetha\_Patnala](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/u/Navyaswetha_Patnala)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2025, 11:11am UTC](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/t/welcome-to-our-did-you-know-thread/14029/10 "2025-12-03T11:11:28Z")
More money is created by private banks than by governments.
---
### Author:  [@Souparna\_MAMIDI](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/u/Souparna_MAMIDI)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2025, 11:22am UTC](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/t/welcome-to-our-did-you-know-thread/14029/11 "2025-12-03T11:22:09Z")
The Bombay Stock Exchange traded stocks under a banyan tree in the 1800s, before it ever had a building.
---
### Author:  [@Rakshitha\_M](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/u/Rakshitha_M)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2025, 11:33am UTC](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/t/welcome-to-our-did-you-know-thread/14029/12 "2025-12-03T11:33:16Z")
---
### Author:  [@Saurav](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/u/Saurav)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 5:51am UTC](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/t/welcome-to-our-did-you-know-thread/14029/13 "2025-12-04T05:51:23Z")
The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), established in 1875 as “The Native Share & Stock Brokers Association,” is the oldest stock exchange in Asia and the 10th oldest in the world.
---
### Author:  [@Bhavana\_Pravin\_Chand](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/u/Bhavana_Pravin_Chand)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 6:12am UTC](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/t/welcome-to-our-did-you-know-thread/14029/14 "2025-12-04T06:12:22Z")
When money enters or exits an ETF, it forces systematic buying or selling of all included stocks.
---
### Author:  [@POOJA\_SS](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/u/POOJA_SS)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 7:56am UTC](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/t/welcome-to-our-did-you-know-thread/14029/15 "2025-12-04T07:56:03Z")
Most IPOs are priced to benefit insiders, not retail investors, founders and early investors cash out at inflated valuations
retail usually buys the top.
---
### Author:  [@Shivani\_Singh](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/u/Shivani_Singh)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 10:20am UTC](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/t/welcome-to-our-did-you-know-thread/14029/16 "2025-12-04T10:20:51Z")
A single typo once erased $617 BILLION from the Japanese stock market (a trader entered the wrong order called a “fat-finger” error).
---
### Author:  [@AS\_Parab](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/u/AS_Parab)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:57am UTC](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/t/welcome-to-our-did-you-know-thread/14029/17 "2025-12-04T11:57:54Z")
Whales (large holders) can move entire crypto markets with just a few transactions.
---
### Author:  [@Trader\_Since\_1999](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/u/Trader_Since_1999)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2025, 7:02am UTC](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/t/welcome-to-our-did-you-know-thread/14029/18 "2025-12-23T07:02:06Z")
Stocks often rise in January due to fresh investment inflows and tax-related year-end selling. Similarly, “Sell in May and go away” reflects seasonal investor behavior, though it doesn’t always hold up statistically.
---
### Author:  [@community\_admin](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/u/community_admin)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2025, 10:23am UTC](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/t/welcome-to-our-did-you-know-thread/14029/19 "2025-12-23T10:23:40Z")
This is so cool. Thanks for sharing.
---
### Author:  [@Mani19](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/u/Mani19)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2025, 6:32am UTC](https://community.aliceblueonline.com/t/welcome-to-our-did-you-know-thread/14029/20 "2025-12-31T06:32:50Z")
High-quality companies (based on things like free cash flow and strong fundamentals) were trading about 40% cheaper than the broader market late in 2025 a rare valuation gap that some investors view as a contrarian opportunity.