Tag: #staytuned
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Rule#7 Pitfalls – If you want to invest in Indian markets, start NOW
Dear Investor, One of the most difficult skills in investing is called Timing the Markets. My experiments with this have pushed me to the conclusion – most of the time, we should just avoid timing the markets. More important than this is Time in the Markets. Start right away and allow the markets to grow…
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Rule #6 Pitfalls – To be a good investor, do things differently
To paraphrase a popular saying, “If you do the same thing as everyone else, you should not expect different results”. For an investor this means, you have to invest differently, in order to get superior results. At JainMatrix Investments, we take a counter-cyclical approach to get superior results. Here’s where JainMatrix Investments, as a SEBI…
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Rule #5 Pitfalls – Do you have too many stocks in your equity Portfolio?
Individual direct Equity Investors should not to have more than 30 shares in their Portfolio. This is my thumb rule for Individual Direct Equity Investors. Why? More than 30 shares, and the investor will have difficulty in following the firms in terms of results, events, updates and news. This is in addition to price and…
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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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