Mr. Jeremy Grantham predictor of many events in the past is predicting a crash in 2011. I am not sure whether Jeremy is right or wrong, whether there will be a crash in 2011. There could be a crash in 2012… The argument that he has put forward in his interview with cnbc’s Maria Bartimoro […]
Many people who trade and lose a lot of money do not understand many risks..some of them are: 1. Running out of money! If you have no ability to take delivery – which means you have to cut position, your bank balance and your stomach balance both are important. If you lack either one of […]
Last week somebody asked me this question. Is RM your share broker….and I really had to think hard. In 1979 I would have said yes. In 2010 it took me to a Bhagvat Geetha lecture that I had heard long, long back. Not sure whether the speaker was from Chinmaya Mission or from the Hare […]
I had done this piece for rediff in 2006. It is relevant today also 🙂 read on… The most important animal in the markets is the pig. It gets slaughtered whether the bulls have a party or the bears have a party. That pig is your lay investor. I am not a doomsday specialist or […]
When you do not know something, there is risk. Many people who buy and sell regularly think they are traders. Well most of them are not. For being a trader you need trading skills, tremendous discipline, fantastic connectivity to the world markets – I know people who see the markets at 9pm, then 1am, then […]
This is too attractive a title for you not to read it, correct? Welcome. I have no clue when this will happen, but it will surely happen. In 3 years, 5 years, 7 years….? no idea. We are in what is called the second phase of a bull market – and you can find skeptics […]
An old joke most of you would have heard in school… There are two guys walking on the road…one of them sees something on the road, and is interested. The other guys says ‘Man this is shit’. The first guy goes near it and says ‘It looks like shit’, then he scratches it, smells it […]