According to Wikipedia, Investment is the commitment of money or capital to purchase financial instruments or other assets in order to gain profitable returns in form of interest, income, or appreciation of the value of the instrument. Typically, an investor had to go through a long procedure for investing his amount. The procedure involved calling the brokers or going to their offices and telling them about the investment order details. Afterwards, the brokers would enter that order in their systems, and their systems were joined to the exchanges and trading floors. This is the conventional method of investment also called “Offline Investment.”

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