There are times when the market actually tells you to stop looking at it. There is something that I have noticed over the past month, and the thought came to me while talking with my better half. These days there seems to be a dearth of investing gurus on YouTube. Earlier, a scroll through…
In last month’s update, I wrote about the various announcements related to the war and the talks around it. Somehow, those talks have materialized. Even though, if some announcements were to be believed, there was no one significant enough left to sit on the other side of the table, it appears there are still…
We have gone through a March that probably most of us didn’t see coming at all. As a popular meme proclaims – we saw Holi, Navratri, Eid, war, Cricket world cup, IPL kickoff, uncommon hot weather, uncommon cold weather, rains, thunderstorms, LPG shortage, oil shortage and a market that corrected sharply. And we are…
A new year starts for the three investing stalwarts. And what a month this past one has been. There were moments when the markets seemed ready to break previous highs, and then came the pullback. The sharp drop at the beginning of the chart below reflects the impact of India’s budget. The next day…
Over the past few months, I had been hinting that Shekhar’s portfolio may need a relook. However, we had agreed at the outset that no changes would be made before completing one full year. That year is now over. As Shekhar looked at his portfolio returns over the past year, along with a comparison…
The first year ends. The second begins. And we are here. It’s Republic Day 2026. Today marks the one year of the No Goal Investing experiment which I had started on the previous Republic Day. I had set this up with an initial contribution on INR 1 Lac each for the three fictional personas…
Last month of 2025. It is a time for reflections on the year gone by and it was an eventful year. Precious metals shone, geopolitical tensions held centre stage for quite a few of these months, the market followed its own whims, and our three investors followed their discipline. In my last month’s post…
As you know, I use the date of 26th of every month to report the fate of the three portfolios I’m running as an experiment. However, as has happened in the past, the post gets delayed when the 26th is a weekday and I can’t find time. That’s what happened this month. As I…
Once bitten, twice shy—that’s the mood as I sit down to write this month’s update. In my post on the fifth month of this experiment, I was feeling bullish. Mr. Market was showing bullishness, but then the sixth month happened and I said what goes up must come down. Well this month, the markets…
The market flirted with happiness this month—only to forget why it was smiling in the first place. We are back to where we were at the end of May 2025, and we have been there for quite some time now. This month it felt like that Mr. Market has finally thought enough is enough,…