Friday, February 29, 2008

Golden Rules of Investment in Shares

1) Behind every stock there is a company and you should always find out what it is doing. You should be able to explain what the company does and its products/services to a layman.

 

2) You should have enough confidence in the stocks you hold and the reason why you bought them rather than worrying about their daily price fluctuations.

 

3) Don’t get carried away by glossy annual reports. Most only contain information that is already available in the market. One should try to figure out anomalies

and understand the finance of the company. Beware of window dressing.

 

4) Invest only in companies/businesses you understand.

5) Investing without research is gambling. No investor has succeeded by relying on luck.

 

6) You should study facts, annual reports, and financials, value the company, future outlook and then make a decision.

 

7) You should never buy a stock based on popularity or tips. Adopt relatively simple methods for evaluating a stock.

 

8) One can never time the market. Ignore forecasts predicting the end of recession or beginning of a bull run. If you are confident of a stock, buy it for the

long-term.

9) You should look for stocks that have not yet been discovered by the market or companies that are “off the radar scope”.

 

10) If a company’s fundamentals are not strong, avoid the stock altogether and instead wait for better opportunities.

 

11) A bad management will never give good return in good times, but good management will fill the gaps when better times arrives.

 

12) Adopt different yardsticks for different companies.

 

13) Success comes by hard work, patience, persistence, flexibility, willingness to do research and equal willingness to admit to mistakes and ability to ignore

general panic.

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