Why Is It Easy To Make Other Peoples’ Decisions? by Rajat Sharma | May 10, 2016 While human being remains the most intelligent creature on earth, he is least likely to take his own advice. What is it about taking advice from a third person (often in agreement...
I wasn’t really sure of the title to this post but the idea stemmed out of a question that I received from a subscriber. Instead of repeating the exact question, I will break it up into 2: Can you earn fixed interest income on the spare cash lying in your trading...
Meeting with individual investors over the years has taught me much about investing mistakes. No matter how you classify investors (i.e. fundamental, technical or confused), the mistakes they make are almost invariably identical. While some mistakes are the result of...
Since the beginning of 2016, Indian stock markets have fallen close to 7%. Overall they have fallen ~ 20% from their highs of 2015. What’s intriguing about this stock market correction is not the pace at which it has happened but the fact that no other asset class has...
Indian stock markets have corrected close to 20% from their peak of 2015. Chinese markets have performed even more poorly, down nearly 50% from last year. I got asked this really interesting question: Where does the money go when stock markets crash? After all, those...
POST UPDATED – WATCH END OF POST A few days back someone on twitter wrote in to me: In my view, if television experts were correct with their recommendations, they would be the richest people on earth; the fact is that they are just as right or wrong as any of...
