I have always been of the firm opinion that it is easier to understand stats or maths applications than to understand business. Or did I contradict myself? Well, well, if you did not understand cricket BUT understood statistics you will come to 2 WRONG conclusions based on YOUR understanding of maths and stats. 1. Inzamam […]
So here we are on 17th June, 2013….wondering what to do in the markets? Well, well God yesterday was father’s day, help me God!! So, what’s a stock market investor’s best response to dropping stock prices? First, forget about rationalizing and explaining (or listening to other people explain) why stocks are falling. It’s a […]
Is there any similarity between running and investing…well a few for sure. Investing is normally for a long term – as is running. The shorter form is called trading and among runners it is called sprinting. So when a runner says he is a short distance runner – it means he runs 100m (sprint) to […]
These days selling life insurance is very difficult, well that is what we are told. That is true if you explain all the features in the policy. If you were to simply do a mis-selling, then like other things in life, it is possible to come out unscathed! So the people in the industry […]
What is cognitive dissonance? Actually the question should be why as an investor / wealth creator should you be aware of this! Cognitive dissonance is our need to justify all our actions – even if we know that it is not worth justifying. It is easier to see examples of what is cognitive dissonance. We […]
There are so many people today masquerading as financial planners, financial trainers, financial experts on media…I was amused when I heard the statement ‘Equity markets give good average returns’. If you ask me this is brilliant but useless advice! Why? Because to understand equity markets you need to understand Arithmetic Mean, Geometric Mean, Standard Deviation, […]
http://www.subramoney.com/2011/09/my-lessons-in-equity/ Please read the above-mentioned post. As well as the comments, and I will give u an update. Now an update on this post. Mr. R is known to me and I called him a few days ago. This was because I was taking a trading position in Hindalco – at about Rs. 92. I […]