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In recent weeks / months, quite of my friends have left trading to either start a new business or go back to college or taken up a job or changed their business. Its not that they were ill equipped to handle the markets, on the other hand, their education and experience would match the best of the best which set me...
On Twitter, Alokesh Phukan asked me a query on the difference in returns between buying at the high of the year every year vs buying at the low of the year . Not sure if this study holds for our volatile mkts @Prashanth_Krish can find out l guess;) #PeterLynch #MarketTiming pic.twitter.com/tGr1Cs8rCi — Alokesh Phukan (@greyfool) March 16, 2016 Now, who...
In the movie, Inception, there is a interesting dialogue which I quote below; “Mal: Pain is in the mind, and judging by the decor we’re in your mind, aren’t we, Arthur?” When investors / traders enter the market, they know that they shall experience some amount of pain – pain of draw-down is guaranteed. But its one thing to experience...
Whenever market corrects, one fears it may be the start of yet another bear market and this fear is largely due to historical experiences of those bear markets which literally took investors and even traders to the washers. A bear market is depressing in more days than one since its said that the pain of a loss is always greater...
One of the ways to manage risk of a portfolio it is said is by buying Out of the Money puts so that in the event of a market meltdown, one’s portfolio (assuming total correlation to Nifty) will be protected from the point where Put option gets in the money. Since options are expensive, there is no point buying a...
The world has become a smaller place thanks to technology which these day enables everyone access to quality information nearly at real time, something which in the older days played a great part in returns generated by professional investors / fund managers. In other words, it has become a great equalizer of sorts. Twitter / Facebook / Whatsapp / Slack...
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