Value Research

A weird betting bot teaches what seasoned investors already know: the best strategy is often to do nothing at all

Human beings perceive and calculate risk in a very non-linear fashion. We are often unable to make the correct decisions in everything from where to go on a holiday to where to invest our money.

What we need is a simple strategy that doesn't force us to try to time the markets. And that's exactly what is offered by the simple time-tested techniques of asset allocation and rebalancing.

Education costs double every 6–7 years. Here's how to stay ahead.

Jesse Livermore, a trader on Wall Street, once said, "There are only two emotions in the market - hope and fear." However, the list includes doubt, suspicion, caution, confidence, fear, panic, despair, etc

In most spheres of life & especially so in the stock markets, the basic truth is that everyone will always work for their own benefits. And for an investor, this is the first lesson to be learned.

To fix a financial problem, ask who profits from it, not who suffers

Most people's risk tolerance is actually zero. You could be financially very stable and yet be completely averse to the idea of losing money. The solution is to adopt time-based asset allocation.

When a label means everything and tells you nothing

A downgrade is a warning light — not an instruction to pull over.

If you define risk as volatility, then the stock markets are indeed very risky. But if you define risk as the probability of suffering a loss over the long term, then the risk is entirely manageable.

Everyone wants to know what to do in the stock market. Do this.

Individual investor warnings are fine. But who regulates the herd?

Theories & processes play a major role in the arena of investments. But then, where do individuals & their skills or instincts figure? Do they play a major role in successful investments as well?

One wrong move with your sale proceeds could cost you lakhs — don't let that happen.

Foolishness is the lifeblood of the stock market. Instead of worrying about how well companies are doing, investors should worry about whether an adequate supply of foolishness will be maintained

The barber's advice is free, but the haircut costs you

It's not possible to predict what happens in the market in the short term. Yet, all kinds of media work hard to maintain the illusion that this is not only possible, but routine.

A war, a spike in oil, and the one asset that quietly kept working.

The story of India's market is more about participation than prediction

The only way to truly learn investing is to live through the fear and the panic

Markets down, tax law changed — this is not the week to look away.

A World Cup win, a war, oil at $119, drones on refineries, a bank chairman's exit and the month isn't over. The morning panic still belongs to borrowed-money investors, not you.

SEBI just changed the rules — find out if your portfolio is ready.

Your SIP's XIRR can swing 35 points in a correction, not because you erred, but because early-stage compounding math works differently than most investors think.