First of all I am feeling like the worst day of my life. My biggest loss in equity markets ever in one day. Obviously I have not done such big trade losses, so it is the biggest fall in my portfolio. I do not wish to put any numbers, but if I lose like this […]
http://www.subramoney.com/2018/11/leveraging-and-risk/?frame-nonce=26418ec50a We all know what is leverage – anyway if you read the above link you will know. Now look at what is happening in the equity markets around the world. Of course they will tell you this is unprecedented. Yes of course it is. If you have a leveraged position – Let us say […]
Most small businessmen (including banks and IFA) do not measure the ‘Value of a Client’ AT ALL. For a small (new, growing) business every client looks like a “Must get, Must keep whatever the price”. This is not true. You must capture the value of a client – a) how much business am I doing […]
The 1992 Harshad Scam was called the ‘stock market scam’ – that’s a huge mistake. It was a banking fraud. It was the bank’s money that got misused. It got used in the stock market. This was allowed to happen because the Banking regulator did not (does not) allow a secondary market in debt instruments […]
The Corona Virus has of course created a lot of scare in the world – and we still have no clue about how to handle the situation. When fuel prices in the world dropped Indian authorities immediately raised taxes – so we have not felt the impact of lower prices. Sadly I am yet to […]
I am not putting dates, but let us understand how a bear market starts…and how it ends (hopefully!). Every bull market is followed by a bear market, and every bear market by a bull market. However everytime there is a bull market, we are willing to believe that “this time it’s different” – and then […]
The title is not accurate – typically I should have said “Saturday – All In a Day’s Work” as Busybee aka Beheram Contractor would have said. This crash is different from earlier crashes – I have got far more calls asking “what to buy” far more than “should I sell everything and run”. Not sure […]