It’s time to wake up and smell the coffee

When we move to a new place, we might find the weather or traffic a bit difficult to deal with. Once we stay there for a while this becomes our baseline and we are no more affected by the things that seemed to bother us earlier. There is no pre-set normal for us, we set […]

Making sense of market volatility

  For a person standing outside a railway station and trying to understand the patterns of people entering and leaving the railway station – it will seem like people are exhibiting a random behavior. Keen observers will find that there are times when there is a significant traffic and there are periods when there is […]

Mirror mirror on the wall…

I was meeting a bunch of friends and at some point discussion went into stocks, one of them said that he doubled his money in a short span by investing in a leading company and a couple of others agreed that they also experienced a similar return. I was a bit skeptical, as any such […]