Post Inflation (which is saying Real returns) in the US market was a NEGATIVE 3.4% P.A. from the period 2000-9. Is this the first time that it is happened? No. 3rd time since 1820…. Moral of the story? when you meet an adviser ask him…NOW WHAT……you told me 1 year is long term…even in 10 […]

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The word reverse split is used in 2 contexts – one in the running parlance and one in the stock exchange / equity market parlance. In the running parlance it means running the second portion of the race FASTER than the FIRST portion. For example if you run 6 km in the first half an […]

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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 […]

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For the true blue speculator one more product is available – the Currency Derivatives. All brokerage houses now provide you with this new product – and is available with just a few clicks. So if you do not know anything about $, Euro, Pound, Jap Yen, ….you are still welcome to deal in EURINR (Euro […]

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Awright, I have posted enough book reviews of ‘Retire Rich Invest Rs. 40 a day’, but here are some comments: ‘I was surprised that there was no book on Retirement in India till you wrote one’ – one doctor. My answer: Not true. There have surely been attempts earlier, but you may not have been […]

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Here is a very, very old idea. Whenever people ask me how to reduce losses in day trading, futures, options, or once upon a time the old fashioned badla, I always used to be stumped. My logic was – if you do not know the downside, any business is too risky, is it not? The […]

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I had done this piece for SENSEX – a magazine run by the BSE (the mumbai stock exchange or bombay stock exchange) Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Wiley Investment Classics) by Edwin Lefèvre Once upon a time, quite long ago – the US was a highly unregulated market. Very briefly, Jesse Livermore’s life as a […]

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