Investing Basics - Feel free to ask the most basic questions

@ChaitanyaC probably meant this thread:

Some broad pointers I considered while building the model:

  1. What percentage of your PF can you risk allocating to a single stock? (Ties back to how much you know about that specific company)
  2. What percentage of your PF can you risk allocating to a single sector? (Ties back to how much you know about that specific industry)
  3. What percentage fall in your PF can you tolerate? (Ties back to your understanding of equities as an asset class - probably there is an additional layer if you are someone who manages other people’s money)
  4. What are your expected returns from each stock in your PF? (Ties back to your understanding of Opportunity Cost)

I have tried to give some weight to each of these questions in my model. But as @basumallick has rightly pointed out in the thread, the model is not really “accurate”. It wasn’t really meant to be. I only hope that the tool is a right step in the direction towards a logical way to allocate capital.

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