Hanging man chart pattern
A Hanging Man chart pattern is a Japanese Candlestick trend reversal pattern. Please visit our videos section on Technical Analysis for Japanese candlestick details. A Hanging Man chart formation signals the reversal of a bullish phase and start of a bearish phase....
Head & Shoulders chart patterns
This is part of a series of posts on some common chart patterns. The one below is known as a Head & Shoulders Pattern (you need a little imagination here!) Chart is reprinted courtesy of Stockcharts.com and is also available here It indicates that the major trend...
A cup and handle formation
This is part of series on technical chart patterns. It is called a cup-and-handle formation, easy to see why!!! The cup formation is the shape of the letter “U” and the handle has a slight downwards tilt. A cup and handle formation signals a bullish phase, and it...
Mental Time Travel-2
As you navigate your way through the various standalone videos, posts and other content on the PIE site, you will hear a lot of talk about investing for the long-term. In Indian markets, that long-term really means only about 30-odd years, certainly not long enough...
Mental Time Travel-1
We described how investment types think about compounding and discounting in the related videos on this and related topics. Essentially, the idea was that we operate symmetrically in terms of going forwards and backwards in time. And that the rates that we apply when...
The curious case of The Northern Pacific Railroad
Have you ever come across a market situation where the price of a single stock keeps increasing while rest of the stocks are driven down dramatically. It. Is hard to think of reasons why such market pattern comes into play, but this is what precisely happened over a...
Karvy Scam and and Regulator response
In November 2019, SEBI issued an order to Karvy Stock Broking Ltd (KSB) preventing it from executing and settling trades on behalf of its clients. This was because KSB had apparently violated broking rules by transferring client shares to itself and then using those...
Domestic stock market turnover - how India stacks up
The stock market is seen as a barometer of economic development in a country. The vibrancy of the stock market has a high degree of correlation with the level of economic development in a country. The relative importance of the banking system vis-a-vis the capital...
Ticker Trivia
How well have Indian companies deployed the earnings retained by them? Earnings growth is a key factor to look for when evaluating any company as a potential investment. The ideal situation would be if a company is able to generate positive earnings through economic...
The IRCTC story
The video talked about how attempts to estimate demand in setting an issue or offer price for IPOs can sometimes result in spectacular failures. This post is about the October 2019 listing of the Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC). The IPO Thr...
Digital Payment
Digital wallets are fast catching up The rapid adoption of digital wallets in India has not come as a surprise to many people. In a recent study by the Boston Consulting Group, the significant disruption caused by digital payment systems was clearly evident. As the...
India ETF’s outside India
Talking about the few ETFs that are available in India at present got me thinking about India ETFs available to investors overseas. Here is a reasonably complete list. The total amount invested in these is about USD 10 billion, roughly half of what Indian investors...
A hiccup in the US repo market
Savvy market participants in the US are pointing to a recent injection of about $53 billion by the Federal Reserve into the “repo” market. What is this repo market? Repo is short for repurchase. These are extremely short-term (overnight, a few days, a week)...
Price reaction to market information.
There is a broader message in the YES bank posts, that have appeared many times in the blog. It is symptomatic of how its price has moved up and down in reaction to information that comes out from the company, the regulator, its analysts, To this, you can add today’s...
More mental accounting
(This post continues the discussion from a previous post: http://ccmrm.org/mental-accounting/) This post addresses a different scenario. Instead of the dilemma created by that impulse credit card purchase, suppose you got an unexpected bonus or a tax refund. We tend...
Final word on Yes Bank.
The YES bank story is still unfolding. I was wrong, there are cockroaches in more places than I had thought. Many more companies to whom YES has lent may default, especially if an economic downturn is impending. Evidence of sizable call writing positions, hundreds of...
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