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samirarora
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Thank you Basant for your comment and have changed it. But I'm surprised i've got 3 votes of 50% and more, because if you repeat that performance for 40 years you would be much richer than Warren Buffet and i doubt 3 people out of 4 on Equity Desk would do so well :)) I'm looking for realistic votes, and i've cast 5-10%!!
And if you see since my returns are 5-10%, ie the same as FDs at 8% or so, i might have lost more money in equities than actually made any gains. So it makes sense to diversify only when you are 100% positive on equities doing better else stick with FDs. |
Why is it so difficult to be on returns of 50 percent of more, since on started investing? I dont quite understand and i am hardly surprised that members are sitting on that kind of returns...isnt that the reason to be in the stock market in the first place?
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basant
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Posted: 27/Oct/2009 at 4:56pm |
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Taleb would call a 50%+ return as a rarity a Black Swan a random chance event - and so would I.
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Crimsonarcher
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Posted: 27/Oct/2009 at 4:56pm |
Originally posted by samirarora
Originally posted by Crimsonarcher
Thank you Basant for your comment and have changed it. But I'm surprised i've got 3 votes of 50% and more, because if you repeat that performance for 40 years you would be much richer than Warren Buffet and i doubt 3 people out of 4 on Equity Desk would do so well :)) I'm looking for realistic votes, and i've cast 5-10%!!
And if you see since my returns are 5-10%, ie the same as FDs at 8% or so, i might have lost more money in equities than actually made any gains. So it makes sense to diversify only when you are 100% positive on equities doing better else stick with FDs. |
Why is it so difficult to be on returns of 50 percent of more, since on started investing? I dont quite understand and i am hardly surprised that members are sitting on that kind of returns...isnt that the reason to be in the stock market in the first place?
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Is it 50% growth YOY on all your investible assets? You might make 2-3 times your money in 2-3 years in equities but what portion of your investible funds are in those? Also can you repeat this YOY for how many years? I know some like Rakesh jhunjhunwala have done 40-80 times in every 6 years for 30 years, but that would be very rare, and if you could then you should soon be in that league. But yeah i've now got 6 responses of 50% or more so maybe there are people who do that kind of returns.
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rapidriser
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Posted: 27/Oct/2009 at 9:20pm |
Only one person has negative returns?
Either the people who lost money are very shy and reticent, or at least some respondents are overstating their inveting success.
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amol.karale
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Voted.
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basant
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Posted: 27/Oct/2009 at 10:17am |
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This poll has perplexed me. I thought that there wouldn't be too many people having a 50%+ return but the data shows something else. Now there should be no incentive for anyone to wrongly cast his vote because he gains nothing out of this because there is no display of his identity but still it would be nice if we can have an honest poll.
I guess the idea is to compute returns since inception and not for the past one year!
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Shikari_Shambu
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Posted: 27/Oct/2009 at 10:32am |
I had voted (10-20%) for last 3 yrs or so...With all my efforts and strategies , I might have underperformed index  ...I probably should have bought an Index fund or some good rated MFs..  main culprits if I can remember are DishTV (had bought at 80 odd and sold at 30)...Pantaloon (bought at 500+ and had sold at 270 odd)... Even with a few doublers and triplers, my overall returns are not good...shows that the most important thing is to avoid BIG mistakes...its better to let some opportunities pass by...loss minimization is key, upside will take care of itself.
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