Stock market emerged as most preferable investment platform by many people in the country like India. This is attributable to high penetration of network, mobile trading, increasing public awareness, good profits, increase in advisory firms and regulation of SEBI. Investment in stock market is child game due high sensitivity of market and large determinants of stock prices. The study is focused on the perception of investors on the basic knowledge required to invest in stock market particularly in Hyderabad region. The samples size of the study is 450 investors most of them are male, full time investors, self and private employees and age group of 20-40 years. The study found good perception of investor’s among all the basic knowledge aspects of stock market asked in the questionnaire. This is really good sign for participation of investor’s with professional knowledge. The study also found significant deviations in the perception of investors within and between groups of investors.