Here are some brilliant Investment Mantras. They are perfectly correct, and COMPLETELY USELESS for you. Why useless, because there is absolutely NO WAY how you will be able to implement even one of them if you are a lay investor. I got it from a very hallowed place, and dare not tell you the source. […]
Most of us suffer from a big bias called Mental Accounting. We think we can do complex calculations in our head, keep track of expenses, compare it with the past happenings – but hey this is not true. So break up your expenses into the following BOXES. A. Absolute essentials: Food, basic clothing, shelter, electricity, […]
If you had asked me a question in 2008 or 9 – which was a better strategy – buy and hold or trading – I would have said buy and hold. In 2014 I am not so sure. In the year 2012 and 13 I have done lot more trading than I would ever have […]
Copying is very difficult especially if you want to be the first! How can you copy from the second best and be first? So that makes copying difficult. However you could take parts of many and look original…then you need not defend your copying! Warren Buffet made most of his money by staying and investing […]
Ha there could not have been a more misleading title..but it was perhaps the best way to attract you! ‘Subra Sir, How is Tata Steel ?’ My take: “Darling I do not know whether you : Want to be a vendor to Tata Steel? Want to takeover Tata Steel? Want to be a customer […]
There are some very important things that you should know if you are a decent investor…even semi decent is fine….by the way….. 1. Leverage: borrowing money to do a deal. You have no clue of the time frame for which you are doing the deal, but hope to make a killing. Normally the deal, the […]
Internationally as well as Nationally it is now well known that meditation is playing an important role in fund management. Either it is a confirmatory bias – I know more people in the BFSI space so more stories are reaching me, or that meditation itself is getting very popular. Whatever it is, meditation seems to […]