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Dream 11 has a series of Advertisements where they showcase professional cricketers talking about how much they dreamt of reaching the big league. They then seemed to suggest that you too can achieve greatness by paying and playing on the Dream 11 App. Could not wrap my head around this. Dream 11 is a fantasy game where you end up...
Till date one place I have been highly unsuccessful is in the arena of entrepreneurship. Reasons are many but one of the foundational reasons as I understood very late is my inability to bear the pain of losses while continuing to be optimistic about the future prospects. Very few enterprises start off making money right from the word go. Even...
Outside of Twitter, when I meet traders / investors, one word that never is much of a talking point is drawdown. One reason is most investors and traders don’t even calculate a NAV styled return matrix to understand where they stand relative to where they were say a month ago or a year ago. Maintaining performance records gives a deeper...
One of the aspects that we have seen both in the United States as well as in many other countries including India has been the rise and rise of the Retail Investor. For long seen as the weak hands, today they seem like a fearsome clan of hyenas who can take on even the King of the Forest. The attack...
It’s a question that has been debated and discussed deeply in the financial community. Those who believe equity fund managers should go to Cash when the odds aren’t favorable suggest that the objective of a fund manager is to generate superior risk adjusted returns. On the other hand, those who believe that the equity fund manager should not go to...
In the book, Winning with Stocks, author Michael Thomsett lays out 8 mistakes he feels that most investors end up making and how to avoid the same. Rather than copy paste the same, I felt I shall try to explain the mistakes from my own experience. Mistake #1: Investing with more risk than you can afford This is the number...
August was the second time in 3 months, Portfolio Yoga Portfolio’s went through a change mid of the month. Stocks got removed without replacement. This has led to questions whether we are moving to a weekly rebalancing mode as is the case with everyone else. The answer to that question is a firm No. The rebalancing will remain in monthly...
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