by Rajat Sharma | Feb 19, 2014 | investment, trading |
I often get emails asking for what are the good shares for trading in the Indian stock markets? One particular inquirer asked me to name some – fundamentally strong stocks for trading. I think this is worth writing about. At first, to come up with any coherent...
by Rajat Sharma | Feb 7, 2014 | finance, investment |
Last week, I met someone who wanted to discuss investment options with me. While I don’t do consulting of this nature, he happened to be in my distant family. Fair enough. I went in wondering if he will ask me about stock investments or may be some complex derivative...
by Rajat Sharma | Jan 29, 2014 | equity, investment, stocks |
Exactly one year ago, I wrote a piece about the hypothesis that “markets are always ahead” of the real economy. At that time, I said that empirical evidence suggests that stock markets can indicate the future prospects of the broader economy. That stock prices decline...
by Rajat Sharma | Jan 22, 2014 | finance, investment |
India’s population today is 1.237 billion and growing at 1.3% every year. This makes India the second most populated country in the world with China leading the charts with a population of 1.35 billion. According to the most recent census survey, India occupies 17 %...
by Rajat Sharma | Jan 20, 2014 | equity, finance, investment |
There Seems to be an amazing rush to grow money by investing in Fixed Deposits (FD) and other fixed income schemes. Someone recently asked me about the best safe investment option for the future and after some discussion I realized what he really wanted to know was...
by Rajat Sharma | Jan 17, 2014 | behavioural finance, equity, finance, investment |
Market participants and financial media regularly classify stock purchase decisions based on the time horizon or holding period of the investor (i.e. how long can the investor do away with his money and put it in stocks). This classification is usually styled as long...
