Surely you have heard this one before – Money Makes the Mare Go. So used to say our teacher in school. Let us see the Indian cricket team currently playing in Sri Lanka. The top players like Dhoni, Sehwag, Yuvraj, Zaheer get paid a couple of crores a year for playing cricket for India. However […]
not sure whether to call this a post… but if you are trying all kinds of fat reducing techniques right from diet fads, crash diets, water diets…or cycling, swimming, running, jumping, mountaineering,….well you can run the Mumbai (Standard Chartered Bank, Procam) marathon. do not know how to register? well here is the link. Could not […]
Most of the portfolios that I look at have crossed their previous highs and by a mile. What has happened is over the past 2 years some shares like P&G, Colgate, Page, Coromandel Fertilisers, Cholamandalam Investments, etc. have gone up and gone up fast. So people who ask me (or pretend to ask me)have these […]
The NSDL (the unregulated capital market player?) proudly claims that there are 1 crore demat accounts in the country. Funnily once upon a time (to avoid TDS) it made sense to create multiple folios (also if you wanted coupons for buying dhotis – Century, watches – Titan, ..) etc. So in one house with 4-5 […]
Did you know the golden rule of investing? The Man with the Gold makes the Rules. So if I am the owner of a company I will not allow my employee to risk my money on trades which HE does not understand. Fair enough? Well that is the principle of the Volcker Rule. If the […]
Since people visiting this website / blog do not get any benefit, I have decided to run an astrology column from today: Here is something about you: You are a hardworking person. Reasonably good looking you go out of your way to help your friends who get into trouble. Your job is interesting most of […]
Icicidirect.com website was down for a substantial part of Thursday and Friday. Simple you could not trade. Suppose you had an open position in a particular share and wanted to square it off, or you wanted to take a fresh position, you could not. If you had an open position and your house computer was […]