Tagged: nifty

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An Update on the Markets and what to Expect

The following is part of a note written to subscribers. Sharing the same here It would not be an understatement to say this week was a tumultuous one for mid and small cap portfolios. While a small correction is not really something one should be worried about, the fact that the correction is coming after months of rise should make...

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June 2021 Newsletter – The Fear of a Crash

“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...

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Trend Following is Dead, Long Live Trend Following

2020 was an awesome year for trend following traders. They made money when the market went down in March and made money when the markets rebounded for the rest of the year. 2021 on the other hand seems like a year (and one that is not even half done) and I am pretty sure most clients have either quit or...

Nifty and Bear Markets 2

Nifty and Bear Markets

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...

Peak-and-Trough Analysis on Nifty 50 2

Peak-and-Trough Analysis on Nifty 50

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...

This time its no different 1

This time its no different

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...