Investment Traps
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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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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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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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Why Chasing Multibagger Stocks Can Hurt Your Long-Term Investment Returns
Why Chasing Multibaggers Can Hurt Your Long-Term Investment Returns The idea of finding multibagger stocks has captured the imagination of many investors, especially in a rising market.
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Too good to be true?
In the fifth article of our Series on ‘The Most Important Thing’, we show you why if a certain investment is too good to be true, it probably is… Time and time again, the post-mortems of…
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How risky is that stock anyway…
If you want to make more money, the answer is to take more risk.” This is a common but incorrect perception of many investors, more so when the times are euphoric.
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Investors…Beware of these behavioural biases! – 2
In our last blog , we talked about some of the behavioural biases and mental pitfalls investors suffer from. We ended our blog with a promise of more to come!
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Investors…Beware of these behavioural biases! – 1
It is a common perception that investing is all about having the right knowledge about the dynamics of the market, the sectors and ultimately the investible companies.
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Quality of Earnings: The Hidden Metric Every Investor Should Track
Investors often focus on revenue growth, profit margins, and earnings per share when evaluating companies. While these metrics are important, they do not always tell the complete story.
