"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong" - Warren Buffett India celebrated Vijay-Dashami – a festival that celebrates the victory of good over evil. When we talk about investing mistakes or evils, the two fundamental evils are – Greed and Fear that causes consequential investing mistakes & sometime blunders. Common question across time periods that we come across from our investor is, “Should I invest at this level”. And this question is irrespective of the market situation – whether stock markets are in bear phase – continuously falling for many sessions or are in bull phase-increasing rapidly or are range bound with no great swing on either side. This is because of our inherent human trait of either being too greedy or too afraid of the assumed situation. When we talk of long term, everybody agrees that in the long run economy will grow for sure and stock markets will also rise. And it is a gene...
Ajay Sharma, Founder of Investmentmitra is an Air Force Veteran and an Alumnus of IIM Calcutta. He is also President of All Mutual Fund Distributors Welfare Assocaition and a Member on Board of Management of The Sonepat Urban Cooperative Bank Ltd. The Blog Here we share our views on economy, markets, politics, events etc. and how they impact our investments. We also share occasionally interesting investment products that we believe are worth considering for investments by the reader.