Moneycontrol App Guide: Best Features for Investors & Traders

As a trader or an investor, you have multiple research tools at your disposal to track the stock markets. One such tool is Moneycontrol, owned by Network 18 group (a Reliance Industries subsidiary). 

In this blog, we will look at some of the best features of the Moneycontrol app for investors. In this Moneycontrol app guide, we will show you a top-down approach to analysing the markets. 

Broader Market Research 

Here is a step-by-step guide for using the Moneycontrol app for broader market research: 

Step 1: Aanalyse Global Markets 

The first step in analysing the market is to look at how major global stock markets, like the US, China, European markets, etc, are performing for the day. 

This helps investors understand the global market outlook for a specific day. 

For example, you can look at the US and European market data in the image below (from money control). All major market data are available as you keep scrolling. 

Source: Moneycontrol, Movement of international indices

For long-term analysis, investors can click on a specific index and find all the financial details regarding these global indices, along with technical charts and their returns over different periods. 

Step 2: Tracking Economic Updates

The next step is to look for any major economic events that might influence the stock markets worldwide. Some such events are speeches by the Chairman of the US Federal Reserve (US central bank), GDP data, inflation data, etc. 

Traders can track important economic events with the help of the Moneycontrol economic calendar. 

For example, you can look at the calendar for the US and India, and you can select any number of countries and choose the events by their impact (here, highest impact events are selected). 

Source: Moneycontrol, Economic calendar showing important upcoming economic events in India and US. 

Step 3: Tracking Indian Markets

The next step is tracking the Indian markets. You can use Moneycontrol to study the movement of Indian stock markets. You can look for 

• Highest percentage moving stocks (up and down)
• Stocks at 52-week highs and lows
• Stocks with the highest volumes
• Winning and losing sectors for the day
• FII/DII activity data

Source: Moneycontrol, Stocks data window on moneycontrol. 

This analysis can give information about the general sentiment of the market and the data on active stocks for a particular day. 

Investors looking forward to analysing long-term trends can check the details of these indices and stocks by clicking on them. 

Stock Specific Action  

Once you have analysed the broader markets, the next part is studying the action of a specific stock. Let us see how different categories of market participants can use stock research tools from money control for their analysis. 

Short-term Traders

For short-term traders, money control is an all-in-one tool for analysing stocks. 

• Technical Screener: Traders can use a technical analysis screener to find stocks based on technical rules. This screener analyses multiple stocks and shows stocks fulfilling the technical criteria. There are multiple scan types available. 

For example, you want to look for stocks which are forming a golden cross, a 50-day moving average moving above a 200-day moving average. You can use the control golden cross filter to find all the stocks that fulfil this criteria. 

Source: Moneycontrol, Technical analysis filter for golden cross 

• Stock Charts: For even deeper technical analysis, Moneycontrol provides stock charts (integrated with Tradingview) so that traders can analyse real-time price action. 

For example, you can see the price chart of Reliance Industries on the Moneycontrol platform. 

Source: Moneycontrol, Price chart on moneycontrol 

A feature unique to Moneycontrol is the seasonality analysis. It shows how a particular stock has performed in a specific month in previous years.  

Source: Moneycontrol, Seasonality analysis on moneycontrol 

 

• Corporate Actions/ Earnings Calendar: Moneycontrol provides a day-wise calendar showing companies set to declare results or other corporate announcements like dividends, bonuses, splits, etc. 

These events can impact the stock price significantly, and traders monitor them to get an early warning of stocks that might become volatile for a particular day as a result of such events. 

Long-term Investors

For long-term investors, money control has detailed financial data  and stock research tools available: 

• Fundamental Screener: Moneycontrol provides users with a wide range of screeners based on fundamental aspects. 

These screeners help by saving an analyst the hassle of looking through each individual stock. 

Moneycontrol provides screeners based on shareholding patterns, balance sheet and cash flow changes, financial ratios and corporate results. 

Source: Moneycontrol, Fundamental scans 

These scanners help long-term investors narrow down a pool of high-quality stocks to conduct their research on. 

• Financial Data: Moneycontrol provides very detailed financial data for each individual stock. It includes the balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement, financial ratios and shareholding patterns. 

Investors do not have to calculate these financial ratios manually. For example, you can check the financial ratios of Reliance Industries below. 

Source: Moneycontrol, Reliance financial ratios 

Investors can conduct an investment analysis of any stock they want with the free data available on Moneycontrol. 

Mutual Fund Tools 

Apart from equities, Moneycontrol has a feature for mutual funds analysis. You can compare multiple mutual funds based on their returns, risk ratios, NAVs, portfolio composition, etc. 

You can even make the comparison based on mutual fund categories like equity schemes, debt schemes, multi-cap funds, etc. 

For example, you can see a list of large-cap mutual funds based on their Assets Under Management (AUM) as of May 27, 2025. 

Source: Moneycontrol, Mutual funds scanner 

You can filter these based on the highest to lowest returns for any given timeframe. 

Similar to stocks, you can conduct a detailed analysis of any mutual fund scheme on Moneycontrol. . 

Source: Moneycontrol, Mutual fund information 

Additional Moneycontrol Features

You can use these additional tools on Moneycontrol to improve your analysis: 

• News and Research Reports: Moneycontrol provides news and blogs on a wide range of topics. Stock research reports are also available. 

Traders and investors can read on many topics related to finance and investing. 

• Portfolio Tracking/ Watchlist: Moneycontrol allows users to create and track portfolios. This helps create multiple portfolios in a single place and makes tracking easier. 
• Other Asset Classes: Similar to equities and mutual funds, Moneycontrol provides tools to analyse different asset classes like bonds, commodities, currencies, and cryptocurrencies. 

Moneycontrol has a different tracker for upcoming Initial Public Offerings (IPOs). 

Conclusion

Moneycontrol is one of several widely used platforms by Indian investors for research and analysis. It provides access to a broad range of financial data that can support investment decisions. Alongside Moneycontrol, other online tools such as StockEdge which focuses on self-research with tools for fundamental, technical, and derivatives analysis. Each platform has its strengths, and users often choose based on their specific needs and preferences.