Valuation Tracking Tool for Nifty Stocks

It is very  easy for a professional trader with their sophisticated  trading tools to track the valuations of various stocks in their portfolio. However, tracking of valuations of various stocks is not a simple exercise for the retail investor. To help the retail investor a simple tool using Google Docs has been created to track the valuations of each of the fifty stocks in the Nifty.

Six reasons why the ability to take a loss is a virtue

Whether we like it or not, quite often we end up making mistakes while buying stocks. We cannot take a loss and start hoping that we will get lucky and one day when the market will help us break even and we will recover our money. The ability to quickly close out your loss making positions when you realize that you have made a mistake is the only way you can hope to be successful in the stock market over the long term.

Is this a good time to start investing

When is a good time to start investing. Is today a good time to start investing or should we wait for better times. In my book of investing there are only two times one should invest and these times come either  now or when there is blood on the floor.

Framework for identifying a solid stock for the long term

We would all love to buy stocks for the long term, the buy it and forget it types. However, its easier said than done. I follow a framework which gives some method to the madness associated with dealing in stocks, especially for the long term, the time horizon of multiple decades. The framework is conservative and yet seems to be robust enough to deal with the volatility cycles in the stock markets.

What happens after the buy order for a stock is executed

Most of us would be able to relate to the nervousness and anxiety that one goes through after the buy order for a stock has been executed. We are all waiting to see the outcome. We are waiting to see a profit. We are waiting to be right. This nervous energy and edginess leads to us to make irrational post purchase behavior irrespective of the fact that our buy trade is profitable or unprofitable. Many a times we end up punishing our good trades and keep on tolerating our bad trades.

5 steps to building a stock portfolio for the conservative long term investor

The success of a portfolio of stocks depends on the underling principles and approach used to build the portfolio. While there is a lot of buy and sell rating noise available on individual stocks, there are very few voices who tell us how to go about building a portfolio of stocks which will deliver to us our investment goals. The blog post talks about how to build a screening criteria which will filter the right stocks into your portfolio. I will share with you a simple 5 step screening criteria which will generate stable low risk returns over the long term.

Stock Markets: The recipe for sure shot disaster

The recipe for sure shot disaster in the stock market is very simple. Most of the us end up buying stocks at times of great excitements when the markets are near their peaks. The market subsequently crashes and we are left licking licking our wounds for a long time. The pattern is common and very easy to explain.

A speculator turns into a value investor

Those who know about the stock market can surely relate to a situation when a position in a stock was initiated with the sole intention of speculation. The speculative trade turned wrong and started showing losses. Since losses are hard to book, the position is left open. The larger the losses are and the longer they continue  a funny transformation takes place.