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#Crude Price Doubles- 2016 Started with Fall of Crude Price. The consensus target among Large Investment banks like Goldman Sacks, Barclays, RBS etc for Crude price Target was 10-15$, well as we see it today, crude prices have doubled from its February low of 26$. Infact commodities have been the best performing stocks in 2017, where Nifty metals is up 40% for the year. This has happened on backdrop of lower Chinese demand. #Brexit- In july Majority of people expected that Brexit wouldn’t happened and Incase it did market’s would crash as that would be the start of fall of EuroZone. Well Brexit did happen, but FTSE has rallied 20% since then and is very close to its lifetime high. India's economy surpasses that of UK #Donald Trump – The odds of Hillary Clinton winning was 91% till 3 days before election day. The Market was expecting that if Hillary wins, the market will rally and incase Trump Wins, markets would Crash. Well Trump won, and US Markets went on to hit...

Around 25% of BSE and 10% of NSE are penny stocks. This might seem shocking, but is true!!!! What is Penny Stocks Investing ? What are best penny stocks in India NSE-BSE ? Have you just started to invest in the stock market? You have found some stocks trading at just Rs.5 or 10. What an opportunity? There must be blind people to leave these stocks unnoticed. I will profit from them. It can easily double or triple. If this is your thought then that is exactly ‘ Penny Stocks Investing ‘. But is this rational? Let us find out…. I have a friend who bought a lot of Birla Power Solutions and Jupiter Biosciences in 2009. These were really hot penny stocks in late 2008. Let me tell you that he regrets his decision now. They have gone way down. You buy thinking ‘I bought it at Rs 4 or 6. How much more can it go down?’. Penny stocks can give super-normal returns or super-normal losses(if there is such a term). If the penny stock you bought is not of at least reasonable quali...

Investors generally underperform the market because they do not buy stocks that are healthy and cheap, but stocks which grab their attention.  The reason why this approach leads to sub-par returns is because stocks which are covered in the media and followed closely by the masses are less likely to be undervalued . In addition, if you invest in the stocks everyone else is investing in, your performance will be equal to theirs; average at best. However, you can't really blame people for taking this approach, because analyzing thousands of publicly listed companies is a daunting task. Or is there an easy way to filter out the hidden gems ? I would argue there is, and in this post I guide you through my simple three step process of finding healthy, undervalued stocks to invest in. Generate ideas Goal: identify +-30 companies to analyze further Finding stocks to analyze is something many investors struggle with, but it is really not that hard . True, internet has p...

This is the best self help book any entrepreneur / investor could ever read and perhaps the only one they need to. Truly transformative. Napoleon Hill was tasked by Andrew Carnegie to write a book on what made a successful person succeed, and he spent 20 years researching and interviewing every great name of the day (Ford, Woolworth, Edison etc), plus lots of people who failed(because you have to know what doesn't work too). This book is the result. It brings to a single point, over and over again. Success comes from knowing what you want to achieve and having a burning desire to achieve it. "The starting point of all achievements is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat" "The first book I ever read in my life: Think and Grow Rich. I have read it 20 times since then," says John Daymond. It seems that every successful business person. I have ever known...

Now-a-days, with the effect of rising inflation, the importance of money is increasing day by day. Money has become the first priority in everyone’s life as it is needed in various stages of life at any time. In this expensive world, it is unwise to keep money idle.  So, the need is to make money from the money we have which can be achieved by making the right investments. Though the equity market gives good returns, it is highly volatile due to its constant rise and fall. Now, the question arises as to how can one safeguard their money from market volatility? The answer lies in Systematic Investment Plans in Equity. What are SIPs? The Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) is a simple plan to increase wealth over a long period of time in a disciplined manner.  It allows us to invest in the stock market by way of mutual funds so that you can beat the ups and downs in the market by averaging your cost and diversifying across sectors. Equity SIPs of different amounts and...