Behavioural Investing
How behaviour, psychology and temperament shape investing outcomes.
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Information Overload in Investing: Why More Data Doesn’t Mean Better Decisions
Information is like an antibiotic. An antibiotic over dosage can have varied effects on our health, from causing complications to being lethal. But what’s so disastrous about having an information overload. Stock Shastra #16 helps you avoid the disastrous effects of Information…
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Information, like antibiotics, works best when consumed in the right dosage
Discover why information overload reduces accuracy in stock investing and how using just the right amount of reliable data leads to better decisions.
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Stop listening to Experts: Build Your Own Investing Discipline
Listening to experts is almost like an addiction for most stock investors. While many don’t even realize that they are addicted to this, others who have experienced that experts don’t win for them, are wondering how they can ever get out of…
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Time to switch off media and focus on long-term investing
Till last several months, Media has been touting high equity returns and multi-bagger stock picks at expensive prices.
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Loss Aversion: Why Investors Hold On to Losing Investments for Too Long
One of the biggest challenges in investing is not market volatility or stock selection—it’s managing our own behavior.
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How to make losses less painful?
Learn how to deal with investment losses wisely. Understand loss aversion and make better long-term stock market decisions with actionable tips backed by behavioral finance.
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Did you enjoy Snakes & Ladders in childhood, then why not Equities?
Equity investing often feels unpredictable in the short term, much like a game of Snakes and Ladders.
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Investors’ common mistake during bullish market
You as an investor, may be considering trailing earnings or ROEs as base case for arriving at any valuation.
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Avoid Noise in long term investing!
Yesterday I had an interesting chat with one of our customers. We discussed various news and events. He suggested that we should include these into our research process.
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An Athletic approach to Stock Market Investing
Recently, while going through my set of business dailies, I found many experts commenting about the recent bull-run in the Indian equity markets.
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Would you like to be the ‘lucky idiot’ or the ‘skillful investor’?
‘You make your own luck’ – The popularity of this statement comes from the basic human urge to deny any existence of luck and thus have a feeling of ultimate control over one’s future.
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Patient Opportunism…. Overcoming your action bias
‘Patience is a virtue’, more so in the world of investing ! Patiently waiting for bargains to come your way, is often the best strategy an investor can follow.