Did the Peter Lynch Screener worked ?

In June 2014, I created a stock screener after re reading ‘One up on wall street’ by Peter lynch. You can read the old post here now lets review how those stocks performed vis a vis broader markets

The screener outperformed broader markets by some distance. Now as with any good screen based trading strategies you need replace the old guard with new performers, I am doing it after nine months you … Read the rest

On 25^th may 2014 we wrote about how traders can ride the Modi momentum in large cap companies, we created a management and momentum box, read the old post here

After 9 months, let’s look at some of the interesting data, all the quadrant has been labelled as Q1,Q2,Q3 & Q4 as per below for ease of understanding

This is the average returns made by all four quadrant

We wrote in May ,

“The underlying theory is simple good companies with capable management will be able to leverage the modified environment to their advantage much faster than good companies with shallow management “

It did came out true as well with Q2 having highest return to date, both Q3 and Q4 on an average were not able to beat return to date market (Sensex) returns

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If you are a value investor and short-term investing is an untouchable concept for you perhaps you will not find much interest in below post

As a traditional investor we don’t know pay attention to stocks hitting 52 weeks highs on a regular basis as they are considered to be hot stocks or tip stocks gamed by speculators. But ignoring such stocks in not a great idea if you are a practical investor

Imagine you were a retail investor and had seen Symphony Ltd mount back to back 52-week highs in Jan’14 . Due to the way we are programmed we would ignore such info and look for other bargains in the market

Have a look what happened in one year

In last 365 days the stock has hit a new 52 week highs (the green dots) 67 times. Almost 1.25 times a week

What stops us from buying 52-week high stocks ?

Anchoring bias – The anchoring effect describes how we can be influenced, or “anchored,” on specific information, when stocks are at a 52-week high, this creates a psychological barrier of sorts, beyond which investors think the stock is unlikely to go. Investors discount the possibility that the … Read the rest

Even though there are still few hours remaining for coronation of Narendra Modi as India’s next prime minister, the stocks markets have behaved as if India is already transformed. This is the idiosyncrasy of markets they run so high on sentiments. The ground realities haven’t changed much since Manmohan Singh left office, so the exuberance on stock markets for an outsider is very tempting.

Am I the one who has missed the boat ?

Can I still enter markets at this level ?

Where should I put my money – on the stock that has risen 50% in last one month or Something which is still to be played out ?

If these are the questions haunting you – Read on

 First getting the facts right – Stock market is on song and every Suresh, Naresh and Pranesh is making money in stocks in 2014. The benchmark indices have risen almost 8% in last one month with some stocks like BHEL up astonishingly 45% in this period . These are maniac times and it is very exciting to be a stock trader these days. But what about an outsider has he really missed boat ?

My answer is NO, … Read the rest