Investment Basics

Tips to Invest in Gold

Gold has always been popular in troubled times.  During the Peloponnesian War (around 431 BC) between the Athenians and the Spartans, the Athenians melted down the gold from the statue of Athene in the Parthenon in order to issue an emergency gold currency.  It’s a fashion that has continued ever since.  Recent economically choppy waters [...]

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Benefits of Compound Returns

Some of the greatest minds in the world have marvelled over a simple, but extraordinary forceful concept – the power of compounding. Einstein called it “the greatest mathematical discovery of all time” and “the eigth wonder of the world.” The economist John Maynard Keynes described the “awesome power of compounded interest”. The Concept of Compounding [...]

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Technical lounge – Valuation of shares

by Gagandeep on January 17, 2010

in Investment Basics

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Are you losing your hard-earned money in the share markets or making a little or even less than what you should ideally be? Do you still wonder what people like Warren Buffet, Anthony Bolton know about the market investing strategies that you do not? Well their secret is very simple : They buy the shares [...]

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Why Should I buy Gold?

by Amandeep Singh on October 25, 2009

in Investment Basics

All of us find reasons before making any kind of investments. A couple of days ago, I was in the same dilemma and I was asking myself the reasons why I should buy Gold. Here, I am listing a few of them that I had in my mind to justify my thought of investing in [...]

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The Importance of Investing

by Amandeep Singh on September 4, 2009

in Investment Basics

Now that you are into a Job for quite some time now, do you remember the days when you were just awarded with your first job and your father told you to open a recurring deposit account in a bank and make all your tax saving investments in provident funds. At that time there were [...]

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How to Short Sell: Earn in the Falling Markets?

by Amandeep Singh on August 19, 2009

in Investment Basics

As a matter of fact you can earn more money in a falling market than in a rising one because when the market rises, it rises like a bull climbing the stairs but when it falls, it falls like a bear thrown out of the window. But the question that comes into picture is how? [...]

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How to decide when to sell Shares?

by Amandeep Singh on July 23, 2009

in Investment Basics

Many investors are unable to sell a stock; either they ‘fall in love’ with an investment, or are unwilling to admit a failed investment and end up to book losses later when they are in dire need of money. Sell decisions should be made at the time of an investment. As an intelligent investor, if [...]

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Stock Picking – Which stocks to buy?

by Amandeep Singh on April 19, 2009

in Investment Basics

Having understood all the basics of the stock market and the risk involved, now we will go into stock picking and how to pick the right stock. Before picking the right stock you need to do some analysis. There are two major types of analysis: 1. Fundamental Analysis 2. Technical Analysis Fundamental analysis is the [...]

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