Reader Questions and Answer

I receive questions in my email and I attempt to respond to all of them. I tend to ignore questions that fall into the category of “looking of quick tips or opinion”. I do not mean to be rude to individuals to whom I do not respond. But I believe in being thoughtful, objective, and worthwhile in my response. If I cannot, then I just leave it as is.

Once in a while I like to sample out few questions that may be applicable to wider audience. Since the last Q and A, I received few interesting ones and I am discussing below.


Quality of the Content in Blogosphere: why is it that free content sucks! Why are bloggers repeating the same content. Do you have any blogging study reference material which has done research to show blogging quality and its ability to earn side income.

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Adding My Thoughts to the Discussion

herd_groupI received quite a bit of interesting response to my last post about THE HINDU working in foreign partners. When I posted this note and a question for readers to judge, I had decided not respond because it was not related to investing. However, reading through this discussion, I can see many have put lot of thoughts behind their responses and I got to know differing viewpoints. I respect your differing opinions and hence I am compelled to present my thoughts too.

This issue seems to be a hot button (any of my investing post does not generate such a two sided discussion). I showed this post to few my friends and it generated similar debate. In almost all cases, there are folks on both sides of the aisle. Here also a very good debate from both sides.

In my view, I look at this aspect in three different time scales, viz., (1) Prior to 2000; (2) period between 2000 to 2008; and (3) 2008 onwards. I am not saying this is the only way, but we can only reflect on the past and project for future.

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Relative PE – Time Series Plot

THE HINDU’s Website Design at Foreign Source

Today’s discussion is something different than the usual investing related topics. It is about announcement of new online edition of The Hindu magazine. This newspaper is about 130 year old company and is considered as one of the best in breed news paper in the country. Attached is the photo image of the front web page which shows the announcement for new beta website. One aspect that I observed and it stood out was about who was involved in designing this new website.

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Shortlisting Five Companies for Potential Long Term Investment Analysis

to-do-listLast week, I discussed my stock screening process and four matrices that I use for short listing the company for further evaluations. One of the traits of any successful investor (or for that matter even a trader) is that they keep a watch list of stocks and monitor its performance. Since the market has run up and we investors believe that stocks are overpriced, it is time to prepare our watch list. In addition, after establishing the watch list, it is also important to determine what would be the price you would be willing to pay to buy it.

Keeping with this thought process; I looked at few stocks and applied my screening process. I have short listed following five companies that I believe warrant further details analysis in the context of my buying objectives.  Continue reading rest of this article…



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