how many of you have noticed that the Sensex and the Nifty may have gone nowhere in the past few weeks…but I have seen some explosive growth in: Cholamandalam Finance, EID Parry, Carborundum Universal, Tata Motors, Cummins…. just an observation and back patting myself…. PS: i MAY have a trading position in these shares too… […]
How people love a rising market! So one good day and the world wants to announce that the worst is behind us. My foot. Remember it took a long time for the world to recover from the Lehman collapse – a company who had an audited balance sheet. When it comes to countries, you […]
1. Suddenly many jobs are being lost: Remember slowing down, closing down are not words that happen only to somebody else! It happens to the best. Only your salary is certain, the variable salary is really variable. I now know of several people who are EARNING about 60% of their claimed CTC. The variable […]
Bucket theory of portfolio management….i hope you have heard it. Instead of saying what it is, let me describe a case study – and you will understand it better! Mr. A is a retired person (retired means does not do any activity to earn money, and he is fully dependent on his portfolio for his […]
Happy New year! Typically all magazines, news papers….channels will happily do a column saying ‘Investment Resolutions for 2012’…make some noise. Readers will happily read it, and tell themselves …’arre this year I will stick to my resolutions’ and then promptly forget it. Very easy for me also to do the same. Frankly I have […]
You could take an optimistic scenario or a pessimistic scenario for 2012 and in the years to come… Let me see….here I think PESSIMISTICALLY what can happen: 1. Collapse of the European Banking system: just because it is unable to bear the load, the banks will just collapse. In fact on 24th of Dec the […]
It is not that the retail investor cannot invest on his own, it is just I think the odds are terribly against them. Let us look at some of the foolish statements that I hear from time to time: 1. I do not make losses in the market: A wife told me that this […]