But wouldn’t it be nice if you could give booster shots to your portfolio every couple of years? Wouldn’t it be great if you got an opportunity to buy shares of some great companies at reduced prices?
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| Market Corrections can be used to give booster shots to your portfolio |
We think it would be. 🙂
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| Tata Motors – From Rs 26 to Rs 270 in just 20 months!!! |
If we were aware that markets available at PE multiples of 12 are grossly undervalued, we could have made a lot of money. 🙁 But past cannot be changed and future is still not here. So what should one do when markets correct? The first step would be to reassess your investment horizon. If you are among those who still prefer long term investing and are focused (like us) on safety of capital + dividend + atleast market matching returns, then it makes sense to buy stocks of companies that already exist in core of your portfolio (Check our ‘strangely named’ long term portfolio). This is assuming that you are sure that reason for which you bought these companies are still valid. And who wouldn’t like to buy cash-generating companies like ONGCs, Clariants & Balmer Lawries, etc at low prices?
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| Portfolio structure & which type of stocks to buy on dips |
Disclosures: Long term positions in Clariant India, Balmer Lawrie, ONGC. No positions in Tata Motors
True..March 2009 was a golden time…I didnt have a crore to invest though,otherwise I could have retired:)
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We can only hope that we get similar opportunities in future.
And we can only pray, that we have the wisdom to recognize them.
And also, we need to pray, that we have the guts to take huge bets in such times… 🙂
I am not sure if you were already working in early 2009 , But my guess is you were in school/collage back then.
Hence talking about it as just a random thing that had occurred.
The world went through Hell literally for what we call now as “Worst Financial Crisis” of last 100 years.
Every day people were fired from their jobs(Specially in IT and Finance) and those of us who still had a job were considering our selfs very lucky.
Each day gave lot of pain seeing our loved ones and friends getting fired and seeing an absolute uncertainty about what is going to happen to them.(Specially the married folks)
So when you pray that situation like 2008-2009 to return just cos we will get stocks at throw away prices , just be careful , your wish might just come true.
And if it does , My Friend i would like to see how you react , I am sure by now you are done with your graduation.
It would be interesting to see if you really stick to your principles or all this is just pep talk , specially when yourentire so called world is falling down around you.
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Glad to have your views. We have tried answering your concerns with a post – http://stableinvestor.com/2013/02/mailbag-dont-pray-for-stock-market-correction.html