Every quarter, a particular kind of stock idea sweeps through Indian WhatsApp investor groups. The CEO gave a magnetic CNBC-TV18 interview. The promoter is a Padma Shri recipient. The company launched a sleek new product. One trait shines — and
SEBI’s landmark 2024 study revealed that 9 out of 10 retail traders in equity Futures & Options lose money — a cumulative ₹1.81 lakh crore destroyed across just three financial years. Yet in the very same window, NSE-registered investors climbed
If you have spent any time on Indian investing Twitter in the past three years, you have already met the most expensive emotion in money — and it is not greed. It is envy. Greed is a man wanting more.
Investor education series — Behavioral Finance lane. This article studies one specific cognitive bias that affects long-term equity investors in India, grounds it in the original academic literature, translates it into the Indian context using SEBI and NSE data, and
Most Indian retail investors track quarterly EPS growth and stop there. They never ask the deeper question every long-term compounder must eventually answer: where is that growth coming from, and how much does the company have to spend to keep
Pick a stock you “feel good” about. Pick a stock you “feel bad” about. Now ask yourself: did the feeling come before or after you looked at the numbers? If you are honest, the feeling came first; the numbers were
Pick a stock you “feel good” about. Pick a stock you “feel bad” about. Now ask yourself: did the feeling come before or after you looked at the numbers? If you are honest, the feeling came first; the numbers were
The Securities and Exchange Board of India’s most recent investor demographics report tells a sobering story: India’s listed-equity universe has expanded from 3 crore unique investors in 2014 to over 11 crore in 2025, and yet the same regulator’s three-year
If a fund is described as “90% of investors retain capital” you commit. If the same fund is described as “1 in 10 investors lose capital” you hesitate. The math is identical. Your decision is not. That gap is the
The number of registered investors on the National Stock Exchange has crossed eleven crore in 2026, up from roughly three crore in 2020 — a 3.7x expansion in a single market cycle. Yet a 2024 SEBI study found that nine
Indian retail participation has crossed 11 crore registered investors on NSE — up from 3 crore just five years ago. Yet a SEBI study covering FY22-FY24 found that 9 out of 10 individual traders in the equity Futures & Options
One of the most repeated lines in Charlie Munger’s lifetime of public talks goes like this: “The first principle is that you have to ask yourself, what’s my best alternative use for this dollar? And that’s the standard against which
The Securities and Exchange Board of India’s longitudinal study on the Futures & Options segment confirmed what disciplined long-term investors have suspected for years: roughly 9 out of every 10 individual traders in Indian F&O lose money, with aggregate retail
Estimated reading time: 9–11 minutes. This is an educational value-investing essay written for serious Indian long-term investors. The Titan Biotech section is a corporate-process illustration of a categorisation principle. Table of Contents Toggle 1. The Sentence Almost Nobody Quotes From
Estimated reading time: 11–13 minutes. This is an educational behavioural-finance article written for serious Indian long-term investors. It is neither a research report nor a stock recommendation. The Titan Biotech section is a corporate-process case study — not a buy/sell/hold