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Mahatma Gandhi, once visualized that the biggest weapon to dethrone the British was to avoid trading with them and buying Indian made products. He felt that a Nation can be broken into pieces by adopting a strict trading methodology. Most of the freedom fighters believed in his vision and used products manufactured by Indians. That Philosophy stands even today with the US imposing strict trade curbs on countries like Iran, China, North Korea, and Russia. From imposing trading sanctions to letting increase in the Oil supplies, to destabilize few economies, the US has started to feel the necessity to utilize its own natural resources. The US still stands to be a major exporter with almost half of the world’s innovations coming from them. The roots are with them and it is their ideas that trigger the business and the global markets. They make use of the less labor costs in India and China and expand their business. Of late, the Europe has been a mere puppet with f...

This post explains my experience on entry tinto the indian stock markets. This can guide you in a way to avoid the frequently committed mistakes when one enters into the big bash of trading. The trap I fell into was looking into the past trends of stocks (say a year) and their returns. Most of the stocks were penny stocks which yielded around 200% returns in the last 1 year but they were purely operator driven. When entering into stock market investing you should do more research on the current events. Especially the US currency and US stock markets which drive the globals stock trend. After that you should look for large cap stocks (say asset with 50000 crore Rs). Banks and Pharma stocks can be bought initially since these 2 sectors favorable offer good returns if invested for 1-2 years. Don't fall into the trap of making quick money and invest in penny stocks (say asset with 30-500 crores). These will be company/oprator driven and wont give you a favorable return. If ...

Having a financially balanced life may seem more difficult these days due to inflation and the living cost having gone northwards. However everybody wants a peaceful balanced life. We can follow the below technique towards achieving that. We ought to save around 40% of our total income towards achieving a financially balanced life. For example, if a person earns 1 lakh per month below is the breakup., 5% of savings towards health insurance                 - Rs. 5000  per month 5% of savings towards life   insurance                 - Rs. 5000  per month 5% of savings towards mutual funds                     - Rs. 5000  per month 5% of savings towards stock markets                   - Rs. 5000  per month 5% of savings towards GOLD             ...