Stock market reforms and investors

Stock Market is very important for a strong economy. We need to make stock market strong. This is possible only with the changes in the rules and regulation. These reforms are very important for the investors. There are a lot of reforms such as screen based trading, demutualization, compulsory dematerialization, ban on insider trading, rolling settlement, investor education, internet trading etc. In this paper we will discuss about stock market reforms given by Securities Exchange Board of India after year 2000. I prepared a questionnaire to know the effect of stock market reforms on investors. Simple percentage, mean, standard deviation, variance are used for the purpose of analysis. The study concluded that investors are positively affected by the reforms.