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When I first came into the Industry, I wasn’t sure of what I wanted to become. Within a year or two though, I knew that I wanted to be a stockbroker. The reason – money. I could see good brokerage firms earning a lakh or more per month. This at regional stock exchanges. Brokers of National Stock Exchange which had...
Something I have observed and one I wonder if the one thing that is unique to the stock markets is the need for external validation. If you ask a small businessman how business is, more times than not, he will have a list of complaints and how it’s getting tougher. An investor / trader on the other hand mostly cannot...
When I first started going to the stock brokers office, my idea of investing was closer to value investing. But at the brokers office, all I encountered were people who were trading. In due course of time, that is where I ended up as well. Trading regardless of whether you are profitable or not can be very addictive. The ability...
Contrarian investing is described as buying when no one wants to buy and selling when no one wants to sell. Much of value investing in many ways is contrarian investing. In the book, Contrarian Investing, the Authors say that any stock that fulfills 2 out of the following 4 criteria can be considered as a buy Not too different from...
So, there I was yesterday sitting at a hotel waiting for friends to arrive. One good thing about waiting these days is that you no longer are bored because there is always something on social media to read about. I on the other hand was checking not social media but Kite (Zerodha App) to see what Adani was doing. After...
We are close to ending 2022 and at this juncture it seems that the markets will close in the positive for the 7th consecutive year. The last time we saw a similar 7 year consecutive gain was between 1988 to 1994. The high of 1994 was next broken only in 1999. I hope that we won’t see a repeat of...
The other day I was talking to an acquaintance who was looking at building a portfolio of stocks. Nothing wrong perse but he neither had interest in understanding the markets nor had the time to devote to the subject (there is a reason all the big investors have been full time investors from long time). I explained that I felt...
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