Tag: #pitfalls
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Rule #4 – To Win Big in Investing, you have to Deal with Losses
Early in my investing career, a loans expert asked me, “what are you going to do, if the firm you have invested in suffers a large share price loss”? No one invests to lose money. But investing in equity markets is different from giving a loan or buying a product from Amazon. If you buy…
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Rule #3 Investing timeframes
Dear investors, One of the biggest hurdles for Investors is patience. Fundamentals based investing is about identifying mismatches between Share price of a company and value lying within the company. This value may be created by 1) Expected growth of the company or business revival, and 2) a share price correction or fall, due to…
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Rule #2 – Long Term Equity Investments must not be funded by loans
Dear investor, Long Term Equity Investments must be made using your savings or available cash surpluses. While equity can give very high returns occasionally, this is not predictable. The volatility in the asset class means that there can even be several years of underperformance followed by a reversal. Taking a loan for such investments can…
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Pitfalls – Rule #1 – Overinvesting in a single stock
JainMatrix Investments shares Pitfalls – Rule #1 in the video below Dear Investor, In my Research Analyst advisory practice, I often found that investors can fall in love with a particular stock, and overinvest in it, rather than taking a basket or portfolio approach. This exposes investors to this risk. In the equity markets, there…
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Lessons from 10 years, and Pitfalls in Investing
Dear Investor, At JainMatrix Investments, I am happy to announce we have completed 10 years as a Research Analyst company. (we did get the RA certification in 2016, when the norms kicked in, but were practicing from earlier). On this occasion, the best thing I can share with you, dear investor, are my learnings from…
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