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 […]
There are many reasons why a person should not (need not, will not…whatever) buy life insurance at all: (please note this is written tongue in cheek and some naive readers should not take it seriously) This is just to take a dig at the excuses that people give… Life insurance is one of those […]
Many of us know that there are rules of Investing. We also know that Rules are meant to be BROKEN. However whether you want to follow them or break them, there is no escaping knowing them! Here the aim is to warn YOU that it is a complex world, and rules are not enough…… If […]
It hardly matters whether it is equities or real estate, the reasons why people lose money is so simple to enumerate: 1. Not knowing the difference between trading and investing: they buy some shares, hope it goes up when it does not they sell off. Since they do not know whether they should be averaging […]
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, […]
Where should an investor invest today? Equity markets? Real estate or Gold? – I am assuming that investors look only at these 3 asset classes – I do not know how to invest in horses, oil, other commodities etc. so I will stick to these 3 asset classes… Let us start with Equities. If some […]