What sensational results this Auto Giant has produced! Hats off to Ratan Tata. If you want the numbers go to www.myiris.com, moneycontrol…..etc. here is just the philosophical analysis! I have a couple of research reports -saying sell @ 170. No I do not want to name the research houses, but I know exactly what went […]
Research is always interesting – especially if you are getting paid for it! As a company we do research of a few hedge funds. The discipline that they show while picking stocks is quite amazing. There are various screens which they use – from market capitalization, no. of transactions in a day, value of trading […]
About a year back we were all perhaps not so optimistic about the markets. Now we all are optimistic – what this means is the risk in the market has increased !! Risk is counter intuitive and it has always been like that for a long time. About a year ago when I saw the […]
Many people have asked me – do you trade? and the answer has always been – ‘kind of’. I am convinced that you can build a kind of permanent portfolio – but you need to be thick skinned, and deaf to all the noise around you. I have been told by many well wishers that […]
Markets fell by 240 points yesterday and has fallen 230 points already today. For people like us markets means sensex! Markets are driven by 3 factors – Earnings of the companies, the future expectations (price-earning ratio) and the liquidity in the market. In the current market earnings are at their peak – the next couple […]
Whenever the receptionist in our office wears a pink dupatta, equity markets go up by at least 50 points. I have no clue whether you would buy shares based on something like this. However, now I am being offered shares of Talwalkar (the fitness people) priced at a price-earning ratio of 44. The logic? Subra, […]
Now that you have heard about a few of my mistakes, let me tell you more! So here it is: Overconfidence: It took me about 20 years of being in the markets to realize that understanding markets is difficult if not impossible. It is not the first few trades that make you confident – it […]