Tagged: Risk

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Pitfalls of Momentum – January 2021 Newsletter

When I was younger and more naive than what I am today, I used to argue strongly for Technical Analysis vs Fundamental Analysis. In a way, I thought of myself as a crusader for an art that few seemed to understand much let alone use it. Today, anyone and everyone has access to a freechart with drawing tools making them...

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Prudential Asset Allocation

Few days back, this tweet by Muthukrishnan caught my eye. Had a long chat with a SME client last evening. He is temporarily shutting down his business as he has one year receivables pending. He says his clients are honest but are in genuine distress. He is stopping SIPs today. Going to live on emergency fund which would last a...

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Discipline through Shorting

I admire Elon Musk. I believe he is one of the greatest Entrepreneurs of the 21st Century, no doubt about that. Yet, he can be devastatingly wrong – for like when he recently railed against Shorts and called them to be made Illegal. Shorts for all their claims and prophecies aren’t gods descended from heaven who have the ability to...

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Striking Gold – Some Risks can Pay off Brilliantly

This week was a good one for many a Flipkart Employee as they finally were able to convert their paper wealth into real wealth. While startup’s getting acquired by bigger companies is common in the United States, Mergers and Acquisitions are pretty low in number out here in India. From Angel Funders who funded the company when it was just...

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Errors, Omissions & Commissions

The downside of strategies comes to the fore both at the best of time and the worst of times. At the best of times, the risk that suddenly pops open is disregarded as a one off incident that doesn’t entail much significance. But when similar kind of risk opens up during the worst of times, it generally is the last...

Liquidity, Spread and ETF 2

Liquidity, Spread and ETF

While the Asset under Management Exchange Traded funds are a tiny sum compared to the amount Mutual funds have been able to mobilize, they are slowly but surely growing despite it being a product that neither the producer takes interest in selling nor the distributor (stock broker in this instance). Unlike a Mutual fund where funds charge a trailing commission...

Defining Risk in Options 0

Defining Risk in Options

Twitter is an  interesting way to start conversations, unfortunately the limit of 144 chars means that one cannot explain the thoughts in detail and one can miss the nuances very easily. And the reason for this blog came about from this series of tweets This is the series of tweet conversations that started with a little innocuous tweet by Deepak...