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Off For A Week, And A Note on Failure

Posting will be light the next week due to extreme laziness caused by the holiday I’m going to be taking in Goa. Every year I take a small break, and always ...

Real Estate Bust In Progress: Volumes Down 43%, Revenue Growth Dips to 1%

At Capital Mind, we have captured a slowdown in the Capital Mind All India Housing Index (based on the Residex). This slowdown seems to be deepening. ...

Beta: Options Oracle Updated Plugin for India

Options Oracle is a pretty good tool that works for option traders all over the world, but it has not been maintained since 2012. The original authors have ...

Optionalysis: March2014 Option Strategies for Election Moves

This is a premium post for Capital Mind Premium subscribers. How do you setup option positions for elections? We saw this question in the premium group today ...

Candy “Crushed” in a Rough IPO

The IPO of King, the maker of the popular game “Candy Crush” has listed in the US, but fell about 15% from the IPO price of $22.5. In the US, shares get ...

Buffett Got The Answer Right in 1999, But the Reasoning Didn’t Work Out

Buffett made a very interesting talk in 1999, on the stock market craziness, and it would be more than apt to review it now. He said: Now, to get some ...

Einhorn Withdraws Case Against Blogger Who Revealed Holdings. Is Anonymity Good?

In an interesting test of the anonymity of the internet, Hedge fund manager David Einhorn first demanded to know the identity of a blogger that revealed his ...

Links: Housing Index Gains, Foreclosure Crisis, Energy Up/Downs, Chinese PMI Slows

Karthik Shashidhar mentions the Capital Mind All India Housing Index in his post on how to calculate “disproportionate” income of politicians. (LiveMint) ...

Government Taps Institutions For 5,500 cr. Selling Axis Bank Shares

The government will sell Rs. 5,500 cr. worth holdings of Axis Bank that it holds in the SU-UTI structure. This was created when the US-64 fund was liquidated; ...

SEBI Calls Financial Technologies "Not Fit And Proper" To Promote a Stock Exchange

Finally, the ball has fallen. SEBI has found FT to be not-fit-and-proper to run a stock exchange. In an order yesterday: FT isn’t Fit and Proper to own ...