JCHAC and Whirlpool are probably good businesses. They might become multibaggers from here. I might be writing this post and watching them double in the next two years. That’s fine. I still won’t average them. Not because of fraud. Not because of accounting irregularities. Those are the textbook answers and they’re real — but they’re […]
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Everyone knows the basics. Buy low. Sell high. Don’t panic. Don’t chase. Have a plan. Nobody argues with these. They’re not complicated. You’ve probably known them for years. And yet. The Fall Is Pain IOC at ₹133 still bothered me more than I expected. I knew it might fall when I entered at ₹147. That
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There’s a chart I keep coming back to. REC Limited. Maximum view. 2008 to today. For fifteen years — 2008 to 2023 — REC traded in a quiet range. ₹80 to ₹180. Boring. Ignored. Exactly the kind of stock this framework was built for. Then something changed. The PSU rerating wave hit in 2023-24. Government
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This is not financial advice. All views are personal. FOMO doesn’t arrive with a warning. It arrives when your colleague mentions a stock at lunch. When the auto driver tells you his brother doubled his money last month. When your ex-GF just posted about an IPO that’s already 2x. By the time everyone is talking,
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Everyone in trading will tell you the same thing. Set a stop loss. Protect your capital. Exit at 10-15% down. No exceptions. I don’t do that. Haven’t in over a decade of investing. This is not recklessness. It’s a different system entirely. I use thesis-based exits, not price-based exits. And this approach only works without
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I never traded F&O. Not because I didn’t understand it — but because I did. F&O is borrowing money to speculate against people who are better than you, faster than you, and have more of it than you. That’s not a market. That’s a trap with a timer. A SEBI study covering FY22–FY24 found that
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This is not financial advice. All views are personal and may not suit all investors. Most traders think they have a strategy problem. They don’t. They have a counting problem. Let’s Start With The Math In my experience, the market offers only a handful of meaningful moves each year. In a decade — perhaps 20
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