Sunday, February 14, 2016

TEN IMPORTANT POINTS ABOUT INVESTING

My messages are for fundamental value investors only. All else, traders, must stay away. My time frames and reasons to buy is not match to traders, and even my profit expectations from an investment will be higher.

1.     It’s very difficult to find multi-baggers. It’s extremely difficult to find five multi-baggers at a time. It’s impossible to find ten multi-baggers at a time.

2.   Do not focus on chasing gains in every opportunity the market offers. Instead of chasing opportunities, be extremely choosy in selecting stocks and make a portfolio with target to double in a year.

    That could turn Rs.1 Lac into Rs.10 Crores in 10 years.

After 1 year
After 2 years
After 3 years
After 4 years
After 5 years
After 6 years
After 7 years
After 8 years
After 9 year
After 10 year
2 Lacs
4
Lacs
8 Lacs
16 Lacs
32 Lacs
64 Lacs
1.28 Crores
2.56 Crores
5.12
Crores
10.24 Crores

3.     Select a stock that can be held for at least a year because there is a clearly identifiable story behind it, that may go say 3 times in a year because the EPS will rise, accompanied by some PE expansion from a low PE-base, so that with some degree of errors also, the stock should go up twice in a 12 month period. 

4.     Not many such stocks would exist, especially with good or even reasonable track record. At least, not many such are clearly visible that can be held for 12 months and at the same time providing 3X-4X returns within that time. Therefore, whenever one is seen, stick to it, and give it time to unfold over that 12 month period. If necessary, stick to just 2 to 5 stocks - instead of chasing 1-3 month trades in 15-20 stocks.

5.     This method of concentrated portfolio and seeing it grow also saves one from Operators` suck-ins, because, many stocks indeed doubles but not necessarily for the right reasons and not really from cheap valuations. When it is almost impossible to accurately judge the future profits, provide excessive importance to present valuations and past track records – because there are no guesses in there.

6.     The key to making money in stocks is known as "Buy Right, Sit Tight". Money is made by sitting, not trading. It takes time to make money. Nobody can catch all the fluctuations.

7.     If one truly knows what the price will be "daily / weekly / monthly basis", he is either God or is an Operator. The rest, at best, would make an "excellent guess" why and how a business may perform and, therefore, how its stock price should behave "over time".

8.    Valuations will change based on actual business performance. Therefore, quarterly results must be taken as the proof of the correctness of that "guess", although just one bad quarter, in between, almost always will not be the correct indicator of a guess going wrong and vice versa.

9.    Investment is like “watching grass grow” - patiently. In that context, SMSs, questions about short term price movements, time-to-time advice seeking etc. is irrelevant. Stock price changes over medium to long term depend on how much extra profit will be made. Therefore, instead of the stock price and targets, focus on why Net Profits will increase. 

10.  Diversification is for HNIs / FIIs / Mutual Funds, who have to spread their crores of rupees in that manner because they cannot put that much money in 4-5 stocks. The Market Cap of the stocks will just not be able to absorb that kind of money during buy and during sell. Therefore, all the opinions in news, analyses, and articles written by these institutions always reflect about diversification.

Disclaimer: I am not a research analyst. Please take your own decision after reading the results, annual reports, other informations available about the company.