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What is important? Time in the Market or Timing the Market.

After reading the previous post “The fox and its sour grapes” in three(3) parts one big question arises what is important? Timing the Market or Time in the Market?

The Fox & Its Sour Grapes – Original

The Fox & Its Sour Grapes – Variant 1

The Fox & Its Sour Grapes – Variant 2

First of all, see what people use to say “It is a more important Time in the Market than Timing the Market”.… Read the rest

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The biggest risk in the market is …

The difference between the Novice and the Expert is their ability to quickly determine what’s relevant and what’s irrelevant. The biggest problem in today’s market it is hard to differentiate between what is relevant and what is irrelevant.

Financial literacy is not a side effect of wealth. Wealth is a side effect of financial literacy.… Read the rest

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How to protect ourselves against – Dragon of Direct Plan.

A couple of months back when I was in Kolkata for a business tour, I came to know that within a week period 4 top-level MFDs lost their clients AUM worth of 5Cr to 10Cr each to Direct Plans. Out of 4, 3 were CFPs. One of the clients was a close relative of one CFP-MFD.

Now one question arises about how many other cases might have happened earlier.… Read the rest

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SIP – The Journey from Laziness to Active Management part – 1

If you want to finish the creativity of anyone, you don’t need to do anything special like Dronacharya does with Eklavya in Mahabharat, asked him to cut his thumb for GuruDakshina, just teach him how to earn money without pursuing any task.

The above line is totally suitable for the MF industry, including AMCs. Since they have learnt how to do SIP, they forget creativity (How to Manage Portfolio Actively).Read the rest

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Learn to invest in various stages of the market. – 1

“When one understand the difference between Volatility, Correction and Bear Market, he/she could grab the opportunity, otherwise what you think Mauka (मोका) will turn in to Dhoka (धोखा)” – Shailesh Sampat

To elaborate why I am writing this in current market situation, first of all we should understand what are the Various Stages of the market.
We can divide the Market in to 5 stages

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The Biggest Blunder in Market…

When the stock market is at its top and all the figures are not supporting the market level then players start throwing various positive news/stories and try to run the market on that news/stories. Sometimes experts come out with a big trap of numbers. First of all see the following table, just a few days back published on social media, trying to show how the market is so attractive.… Read the rest

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