Dear Readers, Hope you are doing well. As you might be aware the last 2 years or so have been tough on the small and mid cap companies with several of them down 50% or more. Things had started getting better from Sep’19 before we all got hit by the outbreak of corona virus. In the last 1 month alone several stocks have fallen off the cliff and this time even the large caps haven’t been spared. So, when the…
Dear Sir, It was another hell of a week and we hope you are doing well. I am writing this to share with you a personal experience from 2008-09 meltdown and the intent of the same is to help assess the same situation from different perspectives. As you might be aware, frame of reference is an important concept in Physics and we believe it has its own significance in the world of investing. To illustrate with an example: Assume a…
Dear Readers, The last one month or so has been one of a kind for the investors in stock market. The volatility witnessed probably surpassed what one might have experienced in 2008 or before. Within a month, the benchmark indices are down 20% and at one point of time were down 30%. How can one forget 13th Mar’20, wherein the trading was halted with markets down 10% and then not only the markets recovered all the losses but closed 4% higher…
Dear Sir, The last 2 years or so have been tough for the investors in general. While there’s not much to be sanguine about, the good thing is we are already 26 months into the bear market and over the last 2 decades most of the bear markets haven’t lasted more than 36 months with bottoms recorded even earlier. So, starting Nov-Dec’19, things had started looking up; however, the markets first got spooked by the Corona virus issue, then the…