After a steep market selloff, markets generally take time to recover, but this time market recovered quickly. It seems that the efforts of the government combined with central banks have resulted in a somewhat V-shaped recovery in the stock market. Since March 2020,...
Something about human behavior stops all of us from making a decision to sell a thing in loss, no matter how deep are losses keep growing. Equally, greed for a few rupees more is what keeps the gambler going. When it comes to stocks, the best of us behave no...
A few years back a friend of mine recounted his experience of working at a hedge fund from its inception in 2005 to its fall in 2008. The fund which crossed U.S. $ 1 billion at one point dropped in value to below U.S. $ 300 million in less than 4 months towards the...
I have lost count of the number of times I have been asked about the ‘target price’ and ‘nifty levels’. Some of you have written to me about adding a target price column in the subscription section of the site. The omission to add such a column is deliberate. While I...
Today I will try to answer a question which I received from one of our subscribers. Vijay asked – “How are stock prices determined? I mean, why would a stock like Bosch trade at Rs. 26000+ while Noida Toll Bridge would trade at Rs. 35? Does it purely depend on how...
