In 300 years of human evolution, stock markets lagged behind other streams of activity. This awareness helps one to make successful investments, says Debashis Basu

When you buy a call option of Tisco, you are buying a financial instrument that has been in use for centuries of a company that is 90 years old, making a product that in some form or the other has been used by human beings for...

“Earnings will be good and therefore stocks will go up”. The market trashes this kind of facile short-term punditry of media and brokers time and again. But few investors seem to be bothered

For weeks before the earnings’ season began, the entire media, especially the television media, has been peddling the view how the market direction will be set by the nature of corporate earnings. This...

The line between “long-term investment” and speculation is thinner than you think, says Debashis Basu

“The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent” - John Maynard Keynes “One of the world’s most famous speculators, Warren Buffet, … .” - Victor Niederhoffer in The Education of a Speculator

In the last issue, we had discussed a tool that helps us determine what should be...