Investing

It’s been almost 7 years since I started learning about investing. It has kept me curious throughout all these years, as I read more about it and learned how it works. Some of the lessons were profound and some very trivial. Out of all of them, the one lesson that I would give the most weight is this: having a sense of what’s enough. It’s something that sounds very simple yet keeps me intrigued the more I think about it. It’s probably one aspect of investing (and many things in life) that would give you the highest leverage, used the right way. ...

Warren Buffett once said “Investing is simple but not easy”. If you have invested in the stock market at some point, chances are that you have experienced a bear market, which is essentially a period when your investments keep losing value. By definition, stock market investments come with a set of risks. One of the biggest risks is volatility i.e. the prices go up and down in an uncertain way based on external conditions. This is essentially how the stock market is designed to work based on the supply and demand. ...