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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...
“Far more money has been lost by investors trying to anticipate corrections, than lost in the corrections themselves.” Peter Lynch The biggest question most people seem to have about markets today is not if a correction is going to happen but when. The list of reasons seems to keep growing. The US housing market for instance is posting the largest...
Michael Batnick who is Director, Research at Ritholtz Wealth Management tweeted out the following chart of Amazon Implicit in the message (my presumption since nothing was blogged / tweeted) was that its not enough to buy a great stock, you need to have the stomach to take big draw downs like Amazon say (90%+ after the IT bubble crashed in 2000). But what...
A adage in the market says that Stocks take an escalator up, and an elevator down and in this environment with Nifty falling like nine pins day in and day out, one actually wonders if it has taken the elevator or has actually fallen through the elevator shaft. While till recently the mood of the market wasn’t bearish, the last time...
So, we have had one more day of Blood letting with markets showing no signs of bottoming out even though domestic institutional investors continue to Buy into the weakness, a weakness that has been caused majorly by global factors accompanied by ceaseless selling by foreign institutional investors. Blood letting was a medical practise carried out as late as end of...
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