A week ago, during one of our frequent WhatsApp conversations, a childhood friend, sent me this picture of a piece of paper he found in a fortune cookie. For those of you who don't know, fortune cookie…
Read More 7 Investment Strategies of A Non-Investor – Software Engineer Edition
The times are good. Isn’t it?Markets are making new highs almost every day now.Rising Sensex (25K+) is inches away from falling Gold prices (27K+).Your portfolio is up and it seems it will continue to do so for next couple of…
Read More No. 1 Secret You Should Know Right NOW!!- Remember God & Not Stocks In Good Times
Markets are rising. Now no credit to me for telling you that. Credit is only deserved by one person who has given us all a new hope to cling onto. :-)I am a perennial worshiper of stock market crashes...atleast for next 20…
Read More Some Stocks in My Portfolio are Up More Than 100%!! But…
What would you do..?...if the stock you purchased is up more than 30,000% from your purchase price? A common and a sensible reaction would be to sell it immediately & celebrate. If I would have been in your place, even…
Read More This Stock is up 30,000% – So Why is my Relative Not Selling it?
I still remember my last portfolio update post in February 2014. The post was titled PSU Banks are Losing Hell Lot of Money, and rightly so. After just three months of starting this portfolio, it was down -12% compared to Nifty’s…
Read More 10 PSU Banks which pushed up Portfolio Returns by 47% in last 3 months!!
This post is inspired by Rohit’s brilliant post on how to manage your money. I am borrowing a few of his ideas & adding a few myself. Never depend on just one source of income. Save at least 20%…
In one of my recent posts about why I want Indian elections of 2014 to fail, I mentioned that due to recent run up in stock markets, experts were regularly coming out with one big target after another for Sensex.…
I recently shared this image on Stable Investor’s Facebook page. And to be honest, this is not the first time I am sharing this image with Facebook Fans. I have shared it more than thrice. And it is because…
Read More Indian Markets At All Time Highs | Should You Buy? Or Should You Sell?
Shares of PSU banks have been bleeding for some time now. And unfortunately, some time back I had created a portfolio for tracking PSU banking stocks for next 5 years. Though it has only been 3 months, the fact is…
Read More PSU Banks are Losing Hell Lot of Money!! 1st Quarter Portfolio Update
I have just started reading the bestseller book by Rolf Dobeli titled ‘The Art of Thinking Clearly’ The very first chapter tells us why analyzing mistakes of dead companies can be beneficial for long term investors. If done diligently, this exercise…
Read More Why is it important to visit Graveyards of Dead Companies?
An investor’s life is tough. And most of the times, it is because of cash. He is either short of cash when he wants to invest; or he has too much of it when he should not invest. Either way,…
Read More Is Holding Cash A Good Idea in Current Indian Markets?
Almost a year back, I had done a case study on Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. The study was an exercise to find a correlation (if any) between company’s share price and its book value per share. And surprisingly, this graph…
Read More IOCL’s Disinvestment & How You Can Benefit From It?
I was browsing through morning newspaper when the following headlines caught my eye - And another similar optimistic one was present in the online edition of the same newspaper – “2014 to be a hot year for equities” (source- Economic…
The year 2013 has ended. And today being the first Sunday of 2014, I have luckily got some free time to sip a cup of hot coffee and to think about what might happen in 2014, and how it would…
I am 100% sure that you would not read this 2900+ word post in one go. And I don’t want you to do it either. I have this strange habit of collecting quotes by people I respect. And being a…
