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FDs or government bonds better than "Insurance" plans

A twitter discussion led Ganesh Babu into writing about how insurers take you for a ride. An ad at www.simpleinsurance.in from ICICI shows you how, if you ...

Flabbergasted by Fibonacci

Vinod Sharma writes on the Magic of Fibonacci Numbers (Business Standard) Though the Fibonacci series was first explained by Pingala, the ancient Indian ...

Buy and Hold: Cracks in the wall

There is the theory that one can buy stocks or an index, and hold for a long long time, and boom, we have a winner. This theory has been peddled to ...

F&O Course: Presentation is online

The online course in futures and options was a lot of fun. It stretched to 2 hrs and 15 minutes. See/hear the recording which contains a complete set of ...

F&O Course: Has to be Dec 13

Due to some unscheduled laziness the Futures and Options course has had to be moved to December 13. I wanted to do it tomorrow but for this WiZiQ will have to ...

Cross-margining: the why and the what

SEBI has announced cross-margining of cash and futures/options, for all participants. Cross-margining is essentially allowing cash positions (shares in a DP ...

Would you like an online course for Futures and Options?

A number of commenters here have expressed their interest in F&O but that it is entirely difficult to decipher or understand. I was thinking of an online ...

Investing in a Bear Market

How does one think about investing in a bear market? Value suddenly becomes apparent. So apparent that you feel like everything is value. Value is ...

SIP of Unhappiness

Systematic Investment Plan investors must not be very happy. Most SIPs on mutual funds, if started from Jan 1, 2006 when the Sensex was 9500 and the Nifty ...

Bond Markets, Inflation, Policy Action And the Lag Effect

This comes from two comments to my last post asking me how active bond markets or the lack thereof affect the policy reaction to inflation. I’m not an ...