Financial advisors will tell you the stock market is the right place to invest if your investment period is long. Ideally, more than 5 years and preferably 10 years – to generate good...
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3 Important lessons in Stock Market Investing
Most new investors come with dreams of making a lot of money in the stock market. They invest in stocks that are recommended on business channels (like CNBC) or they buy stocks that are...
Cup and Handle Pattern: Meaning with Example
The ‘Cup and Handle’ is a pattern which forms on the chart when a rising stock – goes through both price correction and time correction. Price correction is when the price of a stock...
Bearish Engulfing Candle Stick Pattern
The ‘Bearish Engulfing’ is a two-candle pattern. The first candle will be smaller and green in colour. The second candle will engulf (entirely cover) the previous candle...
Dunning Kruger Effect in the Stock Market
This article on the ‘Dunning Kruger Effect’ is for all those who have entered the stock market after March 2020. This article is not to discourage you, but to tell you that the...
Biggest Mistake Mutual Fund Investors make
Is it possible to do everything right and yet lose money by investing in Mutual Funds? The answer is ‘yes’. Recently, I met an investor who did ‘almost’ everything right – but did not make...
Stock Market Psychology: A watched pot never boils
‘A watched pot never boils’ is a phrase which means ‘time will pass very slowly when you wait for something to happen’. This phrase was first published by Benjamin Franklin way back in the...
Stock Market Winners: You need just a few to become rich!
Most new investors are scared to invest in the stock market – fearing that the stocks they buy could fall and money could be lost. But remember this – losses are a part of the...
10 years of outperformance, 1 year of overconfidence!
Let’s say you were consistent with your mutual fund SIPs for 10 years. Your funds perform very well, and you earn compounded returns of 20% CAGR. If you were consistently investing ₹ 30,000...
Monkeys and Goats: Important stock market lessons
Earlier, there was a story published on this website about ‘Monkey and the Stock Market story‘. The popular story now has a new twist and a new addition. A goat joins the monkey...