Why Making Money in the Share Market is Actually So Difficult (5 Years of Lessons)?

[james_kerala]

Look at these threads.

Capital allocation

Towards a Capital Allocation Framework!

Ever since the astute senior investor (Mr D) brought my attention to it, I have been trying to refine my thoughts on the subject and create my own models. They have reached some shape and structure - that I feel confident of sharing the outcome with all fellow-learners. This is NOT a complete model but rather in the nature of a Work-in-Progress document. While one senior pointed me to it and helps me with refinements, another (Mr M) helped me tremendously in creating the model(s). Both of them…

Exit/sell decisions - few threads you can contribute further

VP Chintan Baithak Goa 2017- Selling decision

As we were setting the agenda for this years annual meet, we looked back on the topics discussed in previous meets. Even though we covered breadth of topics across various investment styles/philosophy, we realized that there was hardly any discussion around selling. All our topics/conversations revolved around stock ideas, buying strategies, investment framework for buying right and allocating capital. We seldom discussed anything related to selling. Even within group, lot of us, though adopted …

As a value investor , when do you sell?

Hi Sachin While I don’t know and no particular strategy is right or wrong but with my investing experience of 12 years have realized that there is lot of wisdom in this line “the best time to sell the stock is never”. If you have done the selection well (right management, good opportunity size etc) and if you can then best holding period is forever. I did an interesting analysis and found something insightful which is the reason for above. I have been buying selling stocks since 2011, other d…