It is amazing what the markets can do to you. They collect fees in advance, teach you something awesome, and then make you repent for thinking that lesson is permanent! So the market is a place where you need to play different roles, learn different things, have different views and opinions, and TRHIVE on Chaos. […]

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I have been running for the past 10 odd years without much progress in my running. Or even looking like a runner, and funnily that could be like ‘why you are broke’. Are you wondering what is the connection? Well about 1.5Km from my house is a nice big gym. About 2.5km from home is […]

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I run a blog not a free investment advisory. So when I give examples of LMW, MRF, or Hero Motors or any other share it could be there in my portfolio, or I may be busy selling it. I could have a long or short position and could be arguing exactly opposite to what I […]

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For most market watchers the market is booming. Sure the common man may or may not think so but all indicators are trying to say that the market is more than fairly priced, if not fully priced. Sure there are pockets of lower valuation, but there are pockets of full valuation too. The IPO market […]

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Well there are many definitions of being rich or poor. I will put a very harsh criteria – if you cannot live off your passive income by the time you are 45, you are poor. Harsh? Cruel? Well, what if you lost your job and cannot find a good job ‘in keeping with your status’ […]

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Already follower of Pattu and Subra’s forum. Ordered 4 more copies to give gift to my friends and eagerly waiting to read [Note: I won this book in GoodReads Giveaway and this is my honest review of the book] The book gives a good insight into “money” part of our life. we earn and we […]

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Yesterday (27 Feb 2017) Yogita Khatri did an article in ET_Wealth about Endowment plans being inefficient vehicles for investing for the long run. Nice article with a lot of research and lots of numbers – no I did not go through the numbers, but the gist was “you are better off taking a term plan […]

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