| The stock market is a really nice place to invest your | | | | present US $ 140/ a barrel, changed everything for |
| hard-earned money. Provided you know all the ropes. | | | | the worse. With inflation soaring high internationally |
| The Stock Market is no place for the tender-hearted | | | | and in developing countriesl like India, investors and |
| and the weak-kneed. The Stock Market is a a Great | | | | traders sold their positions for fear of losing heavily. |
| Leveller, in that it lifts you up one day and dumps | | | | FIIs pulled out totally and left the markets in the |
| you on the mat , the very next day. This is true in | | | | lurch. |
| the case of the Indian Stock Market, the undisputed | | | | The prospect of the Indian stock market recovering, |
| leader of the Asian pack. Here the foreign institutions | | | | which fell from the dizzying height of 23000 (BSE |
| hold all the trump cards. The domestic institutions and | | | | Sensex) to the present 14000-15000 levels, in a |
| the mutual funds do play important roles but they | | | | matter of about 5 months, looks rather bleak All |
| are in no position to change the trend of the market | | | | IPOs in the recent past have been non-starters. The |
| on a given day. Volatility is the word that springs to | | | | traded volumes in the Indian stock market has |
| the mind, when you think of the Indian Stock | | | | reached abysmal lows. With the crude price slated to |
| Market, more so in the year 2008. | | | | test new highs according to the experts, the future |
| The past 4 years from the phenomenal crash of May | | | | too looks rather dismal. |
| 2004, had witnessed unprecedented gains for the | | | | Now what does the average investor do? Is it time |
| Indian Equity scenario. Stocks which sold for Rs.50/ | | | | to book losses? Is it time to stay completely away |
| and Rs.60/ four years ago , rose to such dizzying | | | | from the market? These are the cardinal question |
| heights as Rs.2000/ and Rs.4000/, trading almost | | | | that the pundits are struggling hard to find answers |
| 400-500 times. The strange fact here is that nobody | | | | to. |
| , nobody really , had the foresight or vision to buy | | | | But amongst all this pandemonium, let us try to stick |
| and hold stocks for 4 years at a stretch. At the | | | | to the fundamentals of investing in the stock market. |
| slightest upward trend , most people liquidated their | | | | Never,ever, invest in a stock on hearsay and rumour. |
| holdings. But these four years gave the savvy | | | | Invest in a stock after looking at its fundamentals. |
| traders the opportunity to enter a particular stock | | | | Once invested stay invested until your target profit is |
| several times and exit with handsome profits. But the | | | | achieved. Never try to average in case of a fall. |
| year 2008 has been so far very unkind to the | | | | Never speculate. Invest intelligently. You shall stay |
| investors and traders. The International Crude Price | | | | afloat in this sea of sinking investors. |
| which rose from US$60/ a barrel in 2007 to the | | | | |