It has been close to 50 minutes, DS and I not only recognized each other, but it also looked like we were back to our old days when we would just go on and on about stock market ideas. In my last post, I stopped at when DS mentioned how he attempted to maintain two different types of portfolio, one for trading and one for long term portfolio. So the conversation continues….
I said, “DS, I have been fascinated, and quietly toyed with the idea of having such different portfolios”, “But wait before you get any ideas”.
You see folks, I wanted to add my disclaimer like we do in all walks of life, so I add, “I have not used it, but I am fascinated by this thought”. Before I say anything else, he jumps in. Continue reading rest of this article…
I am sitting at Singapore’s Changi International Airport. It is middle of the night, and I come to know my flight is delayed by four hours for technical reasons. I was contemplating what should I do. Made few personal calls and then I decide to munch on unhealthy burger and some fries. I was getting bored, so I started browsing the internet. I log into my blog’s wordpress interface and opened another tab with my blog. I was hoping to answer my emails and blog comments. That just remained a hope.
For many of us retail investors, there is a perennial dilemma about two issues. One is about how we should invest and where we should invest. The second one is we always say (or crib) we do not have big enough capital. We never get out of this loop. Which stock to buy or where to invest is decided based on what was read yesterday. Everybody from the top VP of financial firm to any small investors like us, we keep churning out ideas, themes, predictions, estimates, etc. But we do not have conviction in our own ideas. Honestly, I love reading all those ideas as they do make some interesting reading material, but that’s not the way to manage your personal portfolio. .
Do you know how many people investing and/or trading in equity markets truly succeed over long term? Success here means increase in wealth over their investing lifetimes. This group of people includes individual retail folks and professionals. I am sure many of us would have no clue. I do not have any hard core reference to share; however, I can recall reading various percentages that range from 1% to 7%. Without going in specific data points, my observation has been every time this is less than 10% of investing population. More than 90% of the folks will lose money in equity markets over their investing lifetime. Quite startling but this is very true.
It has been almost 10 months now since I have started this blog. It started as means to share my journey and also to keep track of investment data that I generate for my personal investments. May 2009 was the last time I had discussed about 
Even after completing my schooling and college education, I still continue to be a student and always eager to learn more in anything I do. There are few characteristics of being a student; viz., you will have to have an open mind otherwise nothing new will go inside your head, you will have to take exams and tests, and you will fail on some and you will pass of some. The trick is to keep passing on more occasions and minimize your failed questions. However, there are differences in being student in school and being student in life. Among many of these differences, I am talking about two specific ones.
Habits and Addictions are two terms we use in many contexts in our daily lives. At the root of it, it is and action/activity that one has to do at regular frequency or in certain way or at specific time, etc you get the point right. Now, if those necessary activities or actions are good we call it habits (in most context), and if those activities or actions are bad we term it as additions. In investing, we individuals need to develop habits.
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