Being a Stock Investor sounds cool and fashionable for beginners. A typical beginner stock investor is in early 20's fresh out of college. Disposable income is high and on top of it, there is a strong urge to multiply the money. Greed is the biggest PULL factor towards stock market. I discussed greed and fear in detail in my post, Successful Investors - 5 Hidden Secrets to Make Money. In my opinion, Out of 100 so called investors, 80 are Stock Traders and only 20 are Stock Investor in the true sense. The objective of a stock trader is short term investment, book profit, and exit. I am not ... Read More
Gold ETF – Make Money When Trading at Discount or Premium
Gold ETF or Exchange Traded Fund is a gold holding in Electronic form. Each unit of Gold ETF is equivalent to 1gm of Gold. The price of a Gold ETF is equivalent to the domestic price of the physical gold. Though this post is not about Gold ETF. I will share how to make money from arbitrage opportunity in Gold ETF. Recently, i started investing in Gold through Gold ETF. There are multiple reasons for the same. One of the key reasons was that currently gold is available at a discount through an electronic form. Secondly, the world economic outlook is not looking great. For an investment purpose, ... 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
High Dividend Yield Stocks – Should i Invest or Stay Away
High Dividend Yield Stocks have created a niche for themselves. They target a particular set of investors. A peculiar point i observed is that no one talk about the performance of High Dividend Yield Stocks. In the otherwise depressed market, i get feel good factor whenever i see the performance of these stocks as reported by newspapers :). The reason being, they always show a very high dividend yield %. It gives me a feeling of All is Well, All is Well. The analysts pitch these stocks as a retirement planning tool to investors. The 2nd set of scapegoats, sorry the investors are those who are ... Read More
Stock Investment – When to Enter and Exit the Stock Market
Stock Investment is very risky in nature. You can do infinite no of analysis before Stock Investment. A set of investors vouch for fundamental analysis and others bet for technical analysis. I discussed it in my post, Fundamental vs Technical Analysis of a stock. The analysis is not right or wrong. It is important, how it is being done and what is the conclusion of an investor. A right analysis with the wrong conclusion is as good as wrong analysis. This post is not related to individual stock analysis as it is different ball game altogether. This post is a continuation of the previous post, 5 ... Read More
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