In the complex world of investing, it’s easy to get swept up in trends and rush to chase the latest stocks. But what if there’s a simpler, smarter approach for the long haul? I’m talking about buy-and-hold investing. This tried-and-tested strategy promotes patience and discipline, centered on acquiring high-quality stocks and holding onto them for…
The purpose of this blog is to highlight the importance of starting equity investments early in life. If one can start equity investing in the 20s, there are phenomenal benefits. The biggest benefit is in the form of a high risk-free return on investment. Starting early means, one can stay invested for a very long…
We will learn about the importance of time in the market versus timing the market using index investing. The same theory will apply to a portfolio of stocks, a basket of fundamentally strong stocks. It only reiterates the significance of staying invested for a very long term, with examples. What does it mean by timing…
Stock market investing is not only about buying and selling stocks. After a stage, the investors begin to see the investments as a collection of stocks. Single stocks transform themselves into a shares portfolio. A stage comes when the investor starts to pay less attention to individual stocks. For him/her, more important is the present…
The compound interest formula can teach us the basics of long term investing. We heard about simple interest and compound interest way back in our school days (Class 8th). But in those days, we never realized that these formulas had so much learning for us I feel, had our teachers exemplified us more about compounding returns in those days…
Like long-term investing is a strategy to invest money, ‘rupee cost averaging’ is also an investment strategy to invest money by taking lesser risks. It enables people to eliminate the need to time the market. In rupee cost averaging the investor does not utilize all the funds to buy an asset at a single moment…
I was about to leave my office one Friday evening, and this thought came to my mind that, How to plan and invest Rs.5000 per month for next 20 years? The objective was to start investing in general as a good habit, which eventually can also build a corpus. The time horizon was long, so…
Let us see how technical analysis can be used by long term investors. I am a blogger who writes about investment, personal finance, and stocks in particular. But when I watch NDTV Profit, it gives me goose bumps. I really get swayed away by the amount of market data they share. More than that, it…
