“buy on rumors and sell on news” Over the past 3-4 months the market assumed that Namo will win, Mahagadhon ka bandhan will win, Pappu will win….and fluctuated accordingly. Obviously those who thought Namo will win were correct – and they were perhaps more in number. So the did a lot of buying and the […]

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This is not the first time that I am doing such a post. However in a recent interaction with a doctor she asked me to list the top     Financial Mistakes of a doctor in general..so here it is I said… Not thinking about money: No clue about which world doctors live in, but they […]

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whenever I do a post talking about doctor’s charges…I get some amazingly stupid messages: Do doctors really pay Income tax? Doctors surely overcharge People have examples of how much doctors overcharge Let me rebutt some of those stupid messages on my Twitter wall and what I received on What’s app. Not all are worth rebutting, […]

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Whenever I do an article about doctors somebody makes this comment. It is just innumeracy of the doctors and the patients that leads to such amazingly stupid comments. Let us see the numbers…. A doctor works real hard in India, but I am assuming that nobody can work efficiently beyond 2500 hours a year. Surely […]

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Long long ago I invested a small amount in a start up. Yes, I lost the money. Completely my mistake. The competence of the person doing the business was always in question, but I just invested based on ‘friendship’. Lost todays equivalent of  1 million rupees, but I would call it the price of learning. […]

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How long should I hold on to a share? You should be buying shares only if you have the capability to hold it on for a few years. You should not be forced to sell a share in desperation just because you need money. Investing, so is a long run game..and you should be ready […]

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In one of my trips I was asked to meet an IFA. I normally don’t make those lone meetings..but this time I did. This was an IFA with an aum of Rs. 200 crores and that too in a small town. This was a big amount, and the man was in his late 40s or […]

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