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Portfolio | Portfolio Yoga - Part 2

Category: Portfolio

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2 Years of Momentum Investing – An Overview

  “When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready… The teacher will Disappear.”― Tao Te Ching 2017 in hindsight was a fantastic year for the change in scenery from Bangalore Stock Exchange where I had spent a better part of my time since I came into the market made way for time at...

Dogs of Nifty 50 2

Dogs of Nifty 50

Dogs of the Dow is a very old strategy strategy popularized by Michael B. O’Higgins in 1991 (Wiki Link). The concept if you aren’t too interested in checking out the link is to buy the top dividend yielding firms and holds for a period of 1 year before a new set is selected and invested therein. On the US markets, this...

Cost of huge Returns 0

Cost of huge Returns

Michael Batnick who is Director, Research at Ritholtz Wealth Management tweeted out the following chart of Amazon Implicit in the message (my presumption since nothing was blogged / tweeted) was that its not enough to buy a great stock, you need to have the stomach to take big draw downs like Amazon say (90%+ after the IT bubble crashed in 2000). But what...

Managing risk using Put Options 3

Managing risk using Put Options

One of the ways to manage risk of a portfolio it is said is by buying Out of the Money puts so that in the event of a market meltdown, one’s portfolio (assuming total correlation to Nifty) will be protected from the point where Put option gets in the money. Since options are expensive, there is no point buying a...

Debt and Investor returns 1

Debt and Investor returns

Growth is rarely possible without some amount of debt, at least at the initial stage if not later. But while some companies try to pay of their debt as soon as situation becomes better and internal accruals can fund their needs, some promoters get addicted to cheap debt and many a time end up destroying what was build over decades,...

Change in difficult 1

Change in difficult

I am a sucker for quality writing and twitter has exposed me (and anyone interested) to a host of writers who are able to produce writing of a quality that is seldom available (and much of this is actually free, think about that). Just this morning, one of the bloggers I never miss to read tweeted this   People in...

Permanent loss of Capital 3

Permanent loss of Capital

One of the often quoted reason to invest in the stock market is that they have delivered XX% returns since 1979. This of course is bullshit given the fact that Sensex did not even exist in 1979, let alone a retail investor have the avenue to invest in its constituents. And then there is the tales of how investing just...