I wrote a post on volatile markets a couple of days back and said: Is the market at a low? can it go to 15,000 – frankly I do not have an answer. today I received a note from Prashant Jain and he has used exactly the same nos. and the same words.. It is […]

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The technology space and certain sequence of operations in the finance space are big secrets. For example if I have developed a trading algorithm I would not like anybody to know the algo – especially if it is working well for me. Here in likes a dilemma – if somebody wants should you teach…or should […]

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As a person gets more and more powerful he thinks he can get away with whatever he is doing. Not that he will do only correct things, but that nobody will be able to touch him or her. In the olden days editors had a relationship with famous people and thus news items against them […]

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  One of the girls who read my book….has sent this note….I have masked her name….obviously do not want her name to show up in a Google search!! Name:  hidden           Age: 23 (born 1987)         Profession: Service / Banker 1. At what age do you plan to retire? Have you started saving for retirement? I plan […]

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Well many heart surgeons who have died of a heart attack have not been able to tell the diff between a heart attack or just a case of gas.. Why am I bringing this up on  a Monday morning? Well I walked to Nerul station…and a man sitting there asked me…’Heart attack causes pain in […]

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Sorry this is not an article on ‘How to select a good broker?’ … One of the kids in training told me she can write well…and since I am not naming her I will also refrain from revealing her age, qualifications, etc. – anyway it makes no sense to you does it?By the time this […]

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When we we were in school, we were told we should read the newspaper. So we did read the news paper. Then came 1977 – so Indian Express, Ramnath Goenka and Arun Shourie became a habit. OMG we would even discuss the newspaper. When a letter got published in the ‘letters to the editor’ column, […]

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