Ask this question to people across different spectrum and you will get as many answers as there are spectrums.
- Conservatives will tell you stock market is nothing short of gambling. It demonstrates lack of understanding what stock market really means.
- Broker will tell you buy today, sell tomorrow. It shows what is the motivation; jacking up transactions and fees. Holding for more than few days is not in his interest.
- I can go on an on like this …. but you get the point. Right?
We all want to succeed in making some good money, some quick money, and/or some money. It is my belief that most of the individuals will lose money in stock market over their lifetime. Whether we admit it publicly or not, it is a reality. I do not doubt that people sincerely want to succeed at investing, but the only issue is they do not know how. So they try to follow something that appears to be succeeding. A fund manager or business honcho mentions some stocks or strategy that is doing good in the market, and they jump on board. Only to realize later that they are late to the party. With little drop they jump off and then try to latch on something else, or many times they say, “I am out of the market”. It is a fashion to use market lingo’s. Continue reading rest of this article…
By now, I am sure most of us would have finished taking stock of Year 2009. I am also sure that many of us would be happy with our portfolio performance with 25%+ returns in single year. Many of us don’t lose an opportunity to say I made such-n-such in 2009. On a personal note, I also discussed the results of my own portfolio and showed 115% increase in market value. It would be very easy for me to brag that I did much better than market, which was 72%. However, that’s not what this is about. I do not know about others, but when I put my 2009 portfolio performance in the context of my long term vision, in the context of overall objectives, in context of my journey to build wealth, then I know getting 100%+ returns is nothing special. Let me discuss what I mean.
What a year 2009 was? At the beginning of the year, the stock market was trying to find how deep the abyss was. Every other participant in the equity market was trying to run away like there was no tomorrow. Fast forward to second half of the year. The story changed and now the stock market is trying to find its peak. It was in true sense a roller coaster ride.
Once in a while, I discuss about topics other than investing such as THE HINDU’s website design at foreign source and my thoughts about it. That particular post resulted in passionate discussion on both side of the aisle. There was one theme that seemed to be echoed by quite a few commentators, and that was; there are companies and entrepreneurs that are focusing on developing products. Many entrepreneurs are in fact attempting to develop solutions for Indian consumers.
Social Media is a new buzz in business circles and marketing machinery. If you have an email address and read popular news articles on internet, then it is hard for you to avoid the talk of social media. It is the new in-thing in today’s World Wide Web. There are many different connotations of social media such as social is influence marketing, social is conversation, social is inbound marketing, social is permission marketing, social is community, and many more. At a fundamental level, it is nothing but organization of social groups. I think of it as similar to group of people in our building, our society, our group of colleagues in work place, etc albeit much larger now. One aspect about such web based social groups is that we may not know folks in our society (physically close), but many of us will probably know much more about somebody we have never met.
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