Markets and Emotions

 Hello Reader

 Hope you all are doing fine.

 The stock market is a device to transfer money from the impatient to the patient.

 -Warren Buffet 

 This one is one of the topics which excites me to discuss.

 I thought about sharing some epiphanies of the stock market, I will try to make this as less boring as possible. Also, I would like to make it clear this is my opinion and it is realistic. disagreements and discussions are welcome!

 Okay, let us start with a fun fact now Indian stock markets are considered the most expensive ones to trade.

 Why do analysts say that? If you look at bigger markets like NASDAQ or the London stock exchange, they have a lot of options to fund a trader like, they believe in collateral management, extensive margins.

 But in India, as the years of passed by the securities exchange board of India (SEBI) has brought a ton of rules curtailing the margins that can be given to traders from sub-brokers: the reason being they want to flush out all the small fish from the tank and only keep the big trading bulls and bears in the ring!

 Starting September 2021, the futures and options market must be traded with a 100% margin which means all cash. The channel partner licenses are no more given to new entrants. (Channel partners are people who register with SEBI who are allowed to pump in the margin to traders who can't afford the whole value of the trade) 

 Critics of YouTube like MR. P.R Sundar, Vikram Prabhu who believe and earn huge in option selling have commented saying indeed Indian stock market is the most expensive one for trading.

 SEBI justifies this by saying they implemented the zero-margin rule to protect investors money and safety collectively called investor protection.

 So now the question is can we do not trade anymore? when I say trade I mean intraday trading, Of course, you can have two ways to do it either load your DEMAT with the amount required to trade or build your capital by investing in  shares which can be pledged  to pledge this as collateral and can get margin incase you want to start trading.

 Losses and Emotions:

 After throwing some light on the current situation, let us understand what the right thing is to do in my opinion.

 How to start this journey in the creation of wealth as it is described by the “gurus” how can you get a stable income or increase annual gains by investing money in markets?

 Some myths that people should strictly remove from their minds:

• The stock market is not, and I repeat is not gambling.
• You just don’t lose money if you invest in the market there are no thieves in there who just steal your money, it's your wrong move.
• There is a clear distinction between a trader mindset and an investor mindset.
• All traders are not good investors and vice versa.
• You cannot earn stable profits by just watching DIY (Do it yourself) videos on the internet.
• The stock market is seriously just not just a trend it is an emotion that leads to either a profit or a loss and it is a field that requires a lot of understanding and research.

 Why I felt the urgent need to write this nonfiction is, I see a lot of young people who want to enter the markets but are not getting guidance from people who are well established in markets or anyone for that matter.

 Eventually, they get misguided or take their own decisions and enter sectors of the markets which they are not familiar with for example the future and options market which is very volatile money and lose their hard-earned money!

 Also, I am seeing some successful people are posting videos on YouTube luring people to join their training where they make you feel index options trading or trading in futures is just like eating a pie? it is for them because they don't show you how they reached it, please realise they posted these videos after they reached the summit of success! so you are just being made to watch success stories, so don't you feel the building blocks of this success is not shown? 

 Guys imagine we are entering a stock market with a market capitalization of $3.4055 trillion! the sixth largest in the world and we are thinking just knowing to taste some small glass of wine makes us official wine tasters to the queen of England!

 Therefore, all we need is a structured approach.

 Start your journey with a simple investment in a good and healthy NIFTY 50 stock do discipline and monthly investments from your primary source of income, like Mr. Warren Buffet, says "buy and forget and don't buy a stock if you don't want to hold it!"

 This will help you build your capital, also make it possible to buy some margin by pledging these shares.

 Meanwhile, learn the various strategies which are used to trade do your self-study or enroll yourself for a course, MOST IMPORTANT please do virtual or paper trading for at-least a quarter before you put your real money in the market.

 Well, I would like to give it a pause there for today, I hope I could give you some insights which would help you build your portfolio and start your amazing journey in the market!

 All the best to you.

 Gold mines do have gold! But do we know how to differentiate gold and stones in the mine?

-Thomas Fallon

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 Thanks for your time, have a nice evening.

 Helios

Pay Cheque

Hello Readers

 

Hope you are doing well.

 

Okay! the ground reality is, even though, you are around the kindest of people, you need money to survive so please start working towards that!

-Unknown

 

It has been quite some time since I blogged, always great to be blog again.

 

My last blog, https://harishmurthy.blogspot.com/2021/01/blue-tick.html got some good hits, people like and agreed, and debated my thoughts on social media, messengers, the communication world so on.

Glad you guys echoed my thoughts and came back with honest feedback.

 

For today, I chose to continue about one of my old blogs:

https://harishmurthy.blogspot.com/2020/02/money-plant-delusion-or-reality.html , this one was a bird's eye view about financial planning and the options available at a high level, I knew for a fact that it needed more emphasis and thought it as it is a very vast topic. It is the need of the hour.

 

Before moving forward, how many of us are aware of and sensitive about financial planning can we call it future planning. According to some research papers on the net, the average is around 38.6 percentage worldwide.

 

This is a global percentage, and the United States cover 18 percent of this total percentage. The world together is left with only 20.6 percent of individuals who are thinking and planning.

 

Financial Planning Standards Board a very reputed institute which is famous for awarding the certification called "Certified financial planner" popularly called as CFP had conducted surveys during the Q3 and Q4 of 2015, here are some findings:

 

Consumers lack confidence in achieving their financial goals. Just 22 percent believe strongly that they will achieve their financial goals. Only 17 percent believe strongly in their financial know-how, and just 19 percent feel successful in sticking to their financial strategies.

 

Being debt-free is most important to consumers globally. Being free of significant financial debt (55 percent) and being free of typical consumer debt (54 percent) are most important to consumers, with being prepared for an unexpected financial emergency (52 percent), home ownership (52 percent) and building up savings (51 percent) next on the list of significant priorities.

 

Consumers are interested in financial planning services to help them get on track financially. Survey respondents view retirement planning as the most helpful financial planning service (50 per cent), followed by investment planning (38 per cent) and then budgeting, cash flow and debt management together at 36 per cent.

 

However, most rely on friends and family – not professional financial planners – for information on financial matters and planning. More than four in 10 (44 per cent) consumers rely on friends and family, while another 41 per cent rely on financial information websites. Fewer (31 per cent) turn to a financial planner.

 

Knowing whom to trust is the most significant barrier to working with a financial professional. Among those surveyed, 68 per cent rate "trustworthiness" as especially important when choosing a financial professional – higher than any other consideration. Yet, two in three consumers (66 percent) agree either strongly or somewhat that they do not know whom to trust when getting financial planning advice.

 

Those who work with a financial professional generally feel better prepared to achieve their financial goals. While those who work with a financial adviser express more substantial confidence in achieving their financial and life goals (31 percent strongly agree versus 15 percent among those who do not work with a professional), those working with a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER professional are even more confident (43 percent).

 

Consumers with a plan are more confident. And those who have a written, comprehensive plan are nearly three times more likely to feel confident they will achieve their life goals (38 percent strongly agree versus 14 percent among those who lack such a plan).

 

source: Global Survey By Financial Planning Standards Board Finds .... https://www.fpsb.org/news/global-survey-financial-planning-standards-board-finds-consumers-lack-strong-confidence-achieving-financial-goals-2/

 

In the United States, demographically & psychology retirement planning is enormous, big corporates milk their business from providing these services to be precise.

 

The Indian situation is quite different. We are a transition mode a generation who are getting "pension" which is gradually fading away. The Central Government abolished pensions for new recruits who are in the Government service after the year 2004.

 

The percentage of youth who get into jobs into multi-national corporations is also huge since the last decade.

 

Personally speaking, agreed that it is easy money, what they call the information technology-enabled services and the whole gamut of outsourcing which has happened since the IT boom has even enabled individuals to have money and has become goals to many fresh college pass-outs whose dream is to be part of such companies.

 

Education and our academia are of course, less practical, and more bookish.

 

But the need to switch on the torch in our brains is most important at earliest of ages, by which I mean to say, the moment you hit a working floor and get your pay cheque, that should rub the fire-stones of thoughts in our brains towards financial planning.

 

Nevertheless, we all have commitments to pay off, and situations keep coming in life related to your health or health of your loved ones that needs money which is inevitable.

 

Your planning starts after all this or long with  this, trust me it is possible.

 

The goal is to diversify your options. Trust me, this is an era of possibilities for the people with the right attitude and the acumen to achieve their goals. It should start with savings that should transform into fixed and movable assets.

 

Trust me there are enterprises out there, who are not frauds who are actually ready to help you to convert whatever savings which you had kept it aside for investment purposes into something fruitful, or there will be those trust worthy friends who have already have experience in this area who will definitely help you out.

 

Start investing in financial instruments available in your country, which is all together a world by itself.

 

The goal is always to have a second income and not depend on one this is time and again told by great people like Warren Buffet.

 

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 It is a wide-open space for you, you decide you just want to walk with a pay cheque or play ball with investments or hit a home run with sound financial planning? and if you do that planning in the right time, every ball you hit is bound to hit a home run!

 

Thanks for your time.

 

Helios.