To begin on a lighter note. Stock Price Manipulation is like an extramarital affair. It exists, everyone talks about it but if you ask someone then no one admits :). Similarly, you may find news reports on Stock Price Manipulation but as such, there is no evidence or proof of the same. Recently, one of the news articles that caught my attention was "Pledging of Shares by promoters in the NSE listed companies is at 7 years high". As a layman stock investor, i read the news but could not find anything alarming. Maybe the newspaper didn't want to create any sort of panic. I re-read it after ... Read More
Stock Market Crash – The Pain is NOT YET OVER
Yesterday's stock market crash is the beginning of series of crashes as we observed in 2008. Once the FEAR grips the market then Stock Market Crash is inevitable. There is 360-degree selling. The market has convincingly broken the psychological level of 7000. There was simply NO attempt of recovery. From quite long, i am cautioning readers of this blog to EXIT the Market. Some brave hearts are still hopeful. Current P/E levels are 18.75 and it is still expensive considering the poor corporate results. The FII's are emptying their bucket and they are in a quite hurry to do so. The inflows to ... Read More
Equity Exposure – Beware of 5 illogical Reasons to Invest
Are you taking Equity Exposure just for the sake of it? It's like eating food when you are not hungry. It will be right to say eating stale food (Bear Phase) instead of healthy food (Bull Phase). You may find expert suggestions to exit other asset classes but will never find a call to reduce Equity Exposure to NIL. As a retail investor, i took a call to quit Equity Investments. The key reason is that even if all the investors EXIT Gold, the gold prices will not be impacted much or collapse below the floor price. According to experts, the gold prices will not fall below the cost of production ... Read More
Successful Investors – Five Hidden Secrets to Make Money
Successful Investors are the ones who never lose money in the stock market. They time the market well. On the other hand, experts suggestion to retail investors is that never try to time the market. These two are contradictory stands. Are experts trying to say that retail investors can never be successful investors? In my opinion, it is not the case. One of the reasons why retail investors lose money is wrong timing. I have already discussed this point in detail in my previous posts. To join the league of successful investors, Retail Investor has to observe what successful investors do it ... Read More
Why Danger of PANIC SELLING is looming on Stock Markets
Stock Markets are going through a very bad patch. It's a mix of both domestic and international factors that are responsible for the recent meltdown in stock markets. In the beginning, of this month, i shared a post, Investment in 2016. I highlighted the factors that will influence the returns in 2016. I was hoping against hope that markets will stabilize. It seems that currently everything is going against the stock markets. The recent developments are not encouraging. In my opinion, the danger of panic selling is looming large on Indian stock markets. I am not an investment adviser but my ... Read More
How to identify best Trading Stocks?
To identify good Trading Stocks is one of the Hot Topics in Stock Market. Trading stocks are bought from short-term investment perspective or day trading. Let me clarify that i am not into day trading, but i do buy trading stocks with a horizon of up to 1 month. The objective to buy trading stocks is to make some quick money by identifying the upward trend or momentum in some stocks. Trading stocks may or may not perform well in the long run for investment purpose. Most of the times, the reasons for upward movements are not known. Traders can check the cues available in the market. The ... Read More