Investment Planning

Surprisingly, the entire correction of that day was countered by an equivalent size of rally and then the markets continued to move upwards in excess of 5200. So what should an investor do at this stage? Some investors who missed buying into the last fall...

I have been maintaining my view that the market has gone up too quickly too fast and thus I would not rule out a nice correction. Today, one of such correction was seen across the markets where largecaps as well as midcaps fell sharply. I don't think that...

So are we in a situation that we can safely assume that bear market is over? Well perhaps yes. The markets have gone up too fast too soon and it is too late now to be expecting to see new lows anymore. If the nifty was around 4700 - 4800 levels, we could...

It's been almost 14 long months that our markets have been under performing and constantly drifting lower with time. We had entered into a series of bad news a year back with crude spike, high inflation etc. This led people to believe that RBI would...

From the past experience one thing I have learnt is that markets do not fall indefinitely and bottom out immediately and if one is expecting that a falling market will keep falling without breaks then they are sure to be disappointed. Markets start...

For the week ended 10 December, Primary Articles Inflation falls to 3.78% and food inflation falls to 4 year low 1.81%. The reason we are seeing this sharp fall is not just because of the base effect that is playing out due to sharp increase in prices of...

Even though the market trends remain weak and has downside potential, the market is very attractively valued and one can start picking the stocks with a buy on dips strategy. The buying strategy should be planned in such a way where you identify some good...

I continue to remain negative on the markets just as I was a week or two back. If you notice, I've continued to advice to keep cash on the sidelines and not deploy at current levels or on any rallies in the last couple of weeks. I don't recommend selling...

People don't call the markets unpredictable for no reason. I mean who could have thought that this market which had broken 4700 major support levels a couple of days back would claw back above 5000 levels a few days later? I did not see it coming this...

The recent trends suggest that nifty holding the 4700 mark is very unlikely. Our markets have weakened so much recently that regardless of how western markets are doing, we're dropping like crazy. It is not just on the index levels but if you look at a...

Our markets have been performing horribly, completely under performing it's peers and specially the west. At a time when we had just macro concerns, we held 5200 on the nifty several times and global recession fears dragged us to 4800 and now even when...

There has been a lot of debate going on regarding banking stocks lately. The discussion says that Banking stocks might face further pressure if markets go down from here due to high interest rates and thus the sector as a whole should be avoided. When the...

Sensex and Nifty might be putting a different picture than what is the overall sentiments in the entire market. Yesterday sensex  fell by a hundred points and today they went up more than a hundred points which means in the last two days the markets have...

Recently we have faced a lot of bad news on the macro front as well as the global front. Inspite of so much happening, Nifty is trading around 5150 today. This week, we indeed drifted below 5000 but there was buying seen that brought our markets back...

Markets have over reacted the S&P downgrade of USA today and have become over sold. I think that the downgrade was factored in when we saw a huge fall on Thursday and Friday in global and Indian markets. Today when markets have taken another sharp...

Im sure that this question is hitting a lot of us investors lately. The way the markets have taken such a serious downturn, everything is looking really scary. There is debt concerns in all over Europe and USA and investors are panicking and selling off...

It's been a long time that smallcaps and midcaps have been under performing the largecaps because most of the buying that comes have been in the largecap stocks and the index stocks. Small and Mid stocks have been seeing only marginal moves even though...

The markets have gone up too fast in too short span of time. A lot of positive triggers came like Greece issue settlement and oil coming down or hopes of both. To be honest it looked like people were looking for an excuse to buy into the markets and these...

I have been saying this for quite a while and continue to believe it. I believe that the banking index is one such index that has given the utmost support to our markets. If at all those levels of 5200 were held this time, it was solely because of the...

Before Friday, all the analysts were extremely bearish and all of them were talking about levels of 5000 and 4800 and some even 4400. Is it true that analysts get carried away too much when market breaks a support level on the downside? What they don't...