How Many Stocks Should an Ideal Stock Portfolio Have?
This is possibly the most open ended question about stock investing and has no correct answer. Honestly, there is no rule here. I had written a post on this sometime back where I said, personally, I never try to own more than 5 stocks. That works for me. In fact, if you calculate the return of […]
Buying Delisted Shares – Emerging Investment Opportunity
A quick word on Unlisted vs Delisted Shares: Unlisted shares – shares which never got listed on an exchange in the first place. Still it is possible that an active secondary market exists in these shares. Example – Ratnakar Bank and Bombay Stock Exchange both of which are likely to get listed on a stock exchange […]
Why Value Investing Does Not Work Anymore
Over the last few months, I have received far too many mails expressing views on value investing and stocks that are undervalued, often deeply undervalued in the opinion of the writers. One of the best comments I received came from a 65 year old lady, who wrote this: I have done a little research of […]
How to Judge Investor Sentiment in Stock Market
What markets do day to day is overwhelmingly driven by random chance. Ascribing explanations to short term moves is like trying to explain lottery numbers. It’s no secret that in the short term – investor sentiment is arguably the only driver of stock prices. Their sentiment may turn positive or negative based on news flow, majority analyst […]
Top 5 in-Famous Financial Frauds in India
This post is about some famous financial frauds in India over the last few years. These certainly are not the only ones and as in past, in future there will be more. Harshad Mehta (1990 – 92) Known as the big bull – is perhaps the most familiar name when it comes to financial frauds in […]
Foreign Portfolio Investors Regulations, 2014
In order to have one integrated policy on foreign investment, the Indian securities market regulator i.e. Securities Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”) has introduced the Foreign Portfolio Investors Regulations (FPI), 2014. The FPI Regulation, 2014 replace the existing Foreign Institutional Investor Regulations, 1995 (FII regulation applicable to institutional investors, such as mutual funds, pension funds, banks and […]
Crude Oil Wars – How India could benefit from OPECs high supply policy?
Over the past few weeks the entire world’s attention has been focused on crude oil prices. Some countries are benefiting immensely from the recent meltdown in crude oil prices while others are being slowly driven towards bankruptcy. Countries Benefiting – All countries which rely on crude imports. Mainly India and China. Countries Suffering – All oil exporting […]
Latest Portfolio Holdings |Top Performing Mutual Funds
Portfolio Holdings as of 30 October, 2014
Super 6 Dividend Income Stocks
Motivating fact about investing in Dividend income stocks – If you had invested Rs 77,000 in ITC shares in the year 2003, today you would today have in excess of Rs. 18 lakhs if you kept reinvesting all dividends. (See explanation at the end of the post [1]. Factors considered: Historic and current Dividend yield (1 […]
Fearless Trading and The Art of Making Tough Investing Decisions
I think television anchors and ‘stock market experts’ on T.V. have a really difficult job. Advising others about making tough investing decisions while being live on T.V. is surely no mean task. Imagine having to answer a guy who asks you this (with no time to rehearse): Trader: “I have 100 shares of Jindal Steel […]