Reblog: Market Strategy and the Biggest Risk in Stocks in times of high valuations


The original post is written by Mastermind, Sanasecurities and is available here.

Over the last few weeks, markets have beaten all resistance barriers and have defied the very notion of value. Those waiting for a correction sometime back have now jumped in hoping for newer all time highs.

Anybody who believes in value may not find much for the taking. Certain I am however that many old school value buyers are neck deep in stocks right now. Perhaps for the right reason given the enormous liquidity coupled with strong news flow both domestically and from international markets.

Markets are risky – more so at the kind of valuations they are trading at right now. Nevertheless, from positive earnings, passage of GST, U.S. Jobs data and FEDs almost certain stance of maintaining interest rates, everything looks positive.

If you are already invested, in all likelihood you would have made money over the past 2-3 months. The key question: If you are not invested, should you jump in now?

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Reblog: Who makes Money Consistently in Day Trading?


This is a blog post by Mastermind, Nooresh. The original post appears here.

One can understand the obsession for Day Trading by just doing a Search on Google for the Words like  – Day Trading, Intraday Trading Tips, Day Trading Tips and the number of sites that pop up catering to it.

BSE, an exchange in India, mentions itself to be the fastest exchange in the world.

Nifty 50 index is world’s most actively traded derivatives contract: Survey – Link

Majority of brokers have 90 – 96% of their business coming from Derivatives

There are a bunch of Discount Brokers with Rs. 0-20 as broking change.

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