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LearnTA: The Doji, White Soldiers and Black Crows

In today’s edition of Learning Technical Analysis, we’ll study a few Japanese Candlestick Patterns. We’ve already looked at the basics of what candles ...

“How Many Chances Do I Get”?

One stereotypical example quoted in behavioural finance is about our irrational risk aversion. Look at the Nobel Prize winning Kahneman “In my classes, I ...

Learn TA: The Momentum Oscillator called RSI (Premium)

We’ve now done two lessons on Technical Analysis: An Introduction to Technical Analysis, Supports and Resistances The concept of Moving Averages Today, ...

Greed and Fear: Warning Signs of Market Euphoria

Markets ride high as the Nifty goes up another 1% today on what seems to be fumes. It just doesn’t want to go down. In 2007, I had that feeling. That weird ...

Learn TA: Moving Averages

In the first chapter on Technical Analysis we talked about the basics of charting and support/resistance. We know now that support is a congestion area where ...

Suckered: The Fraud SMS Pump and Dump Scheme

Reader and friend Haresh Nagpal writes on twitter about the proliferation of fake SMS’s that are pump and dump schemes. He mentions an SMS like this: And ...

LearnTA: Introduction to Technical Analysis

Technical Analysis is how you analyse stocks based on their price movements. Prices are an indication of fear, greed and all those emotions that are inevitably ...

EcoManifesto: Government Should Cut Size And Earn Money Selling Assets

As part of our EcoManifesto series we bring you the second edition: How should the government earn money? We’ve already said that we should cut tax rates and ...

The Best Explanation of BitCoin, And All Financial Products

This is why because after this, you will never, ever, ask what BitCoin is. Replace BitCoin with “Insurance plan”, “Structured Product”, “Elliott Wave ...
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How Do You Calculate “Contribution” of any item to Inflation?

Technical note: How do you see the contribution of any individual element to inflation? Assume we have two items, A and B, which are priced at Rs. 100 each, ...