30 books I wish I read before Investing my hard-earned money:

1. You can be a Stock Market Genius by Joel Greenblatt
2. Common Stocks, Uncommon Profits by Phil Fisher
3. Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman
4. The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon
5. Winning the Loser's Game by Charles Ellis

6. The Zurich Axioms by Max Gunther
7. The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks
8. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
9. The Intelligent Investor by B. Graham
10. A Zebra in Lion country by Ralph Wanger and Everett Mattlin
11. Learn to Earn by Peter Lynch

12.Poor Charlie's Almanack - The wit and wisdom of Charles T Munger
13.Speculative Contagion by Frank Martin
14. The Long and the Short of it by John Kay
15. More than you know by Michael Maubossin
16. Influence - The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini

17. The Psychology of Judgment and Decision making by Scott Plous
18. The Real Warren Buffett by James O'Loughlin
19. Devil take the Hindmost by Edward Chancellor
20. Risk Intelligence by Dylan Evans
21. The Emotionally Intelligent Investor by Ravee Mehta

22.Accounting for Value by Stephen Penman
23. Common Stocks and Common Sense by Edgar Wachenheim III
24. Big Money Thinks Small by Joel Tillinghast
25. Memos from the Chairman by Alan C Greenberg

A Mega-Thread on Jesse Livermore’s Wisdom:

1. Never be completely bearish or bullish on the whole market because of one group or a few stocks have reversed its course from the trend.

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2. There is only one side of the market and it is not the bull or the bear, but the right side.

3. Don’t trust your own opinion and back your judgment until the action of the market itself confirms your opinion.

4. Markets are Never wrong – opinions often are.

5. The real money made in speculating has been in commitments showing in profit right from the start.

6. As long as a stock is acting right, and the market is right, do not be in a hurry to take profits.

7. One should never permit speculative ventures to run into investments.

8. The money lost by speculation alone is small compared with the sums lost by investors who let their investments ride.

9. Nothing new ever occurs in the business of speculating or investing in securities and commodities.

10. Never sell a stock because it seems high-priced.

11. I become a buyer as soon as a stock makes a new high on its movement after having had a normal reaction.

12. Watch the market leaders.

13. The human side of every person is the greatest enemy of the average investor or speculator.

14. Wishful thinking must be banished.

Name two or three stocks in your portfolio which you are betting would grow their profits at 15-20% CAGR for the next 5 years.
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Few apps/tools we use for stock research:

1) @Tijori1
2) @mystockedge
3) @screener_in
4) @TickertapeIN
5) @Trendlyne
6) @Investopedia
7) @moneycontrolcom
8) Research Bytes
9) Google Finance
10) Valuepickr

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Mega-Thread: 50 Pearls of Wisdom from Rakesh Jhunjhunwala on Life and Stock Markets

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1) Never in my life have I have made an investment when a stock is popular.
In fact, I like to invest when the stock is not popular.

2) If a girl is beautiful a suitor will come.
If a stock is beautiful, a suitor will come.
So I don’t search for suitors when I invest.

3) Respect the market.
Know what to stake.
Know when to take a loss.
Be responsible.

4) Emotional reactions are a sure way to make a loss in stock markets.

5) Anticipate trends and benefit from them.

6) Traders must go against human nature.

7) Successful investors are opportunistic and optimistic ones.

8) Growth comes out of chaos.

9) The market is above individuals. The market is rational. An individual can never be smarter than the market.

10) Maximize profits and minimize losses.

11) Invest in a business,
not a company.

12) When in doubt, listen to your heart.

Top 10 Useful Stock Market Related Apps:
1) Screener
2) Rate Star
3) BSE India
4) Valuepickr
5) Tickertape
6) Stock Edge
7) Investopedia
8) Tijori Finance
9) Markets Mojo
10) Moneycontrol

From selling snacks on the street to building a multi-billion-dollar empire

Mega-Thread on the story of Haldiram's

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1) Ganga Bhisen Agarwal, affectionately known as Haldiram by her mother, started The Haldiram Empire in 1937 before India gained independence.

2) He was born into a Malwadi family in Bikaner and married Champa Devi.

3) He started out selling Bhujia, as per his aunt's recipe in his father's namkeen and snacks shop.

4) However, he and his wife later fled home owing to a family quarrel.

5) Later he started by selling on the street mong daal namkeen prepared by his wife.

6) Haldiram opened his first business in Bikaner in 1946. He began selling his Bikaneri Bhujia there.

7) He recreated the Bhujia by including moth flour and made it thinner. His sales and income improved dramatically because of all of these adjustments.

8) Later on, Haldiram attended a wedding in Kolkata, and only he got the idea to set up his shop there.

9) With this step, the first branching out of the Bikaner Bhujia business was started.

A Mini-Thread on Bharti Airtel: One of the world’s leading telecommunication services providers with a presence in 18 countries

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1) Largest Player in B2B connectivity:

Airtel Business is India’s largest player in the B2B connectivity space and serves over one million businesses with an integrated portfolio that includes connectivity, cloud, security and collaboration, and data center solutions.

2) Stake in Indus Towers:

Presently, the company owns ~42% stake in Indus Towers (erstwhile Bharti Infratel) directly and through its wholly-owned subsidiary Nettle Infrastructure Investments Ltd.

3) Indus Towers Limited has over 175,500 towers and 318,300 co-locations and a nationwide presence covering all 22 telecom circles.

Its leading customers are Airtel, Vodafone Idea, and Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited.

4) In December 2020, the company, through Nettle Infrastructure bought a ~5% stake in Indus Towers for ~2,900 crores.

A Mega-Thread on a 111-year-old conglomerate and one the most debated stocks of the Indian stock markets #ITC (Earlier known as Imperial Tobacco of India) @ITCCorpCom

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1) ITC first set foot in 1910 at Calcutta based on agricultural products and services.

2) A year later in 1911, it began sourcing leaf tobacco from South Indian Farmers to mass-produce consumer cigarettes, a landscape it would dominate for over a century!

3) In 1911, They set up a stall at the Delhi Darbar to promote Scissors, one of ITC's initial cigarette brands.

The constant need for promotions ultimately led to the relocation of the company from Calcutta to Delhi.

4) The first step of ITC’s Indianization was initiated in 1954 with 6% Indian shareholding. It steadily rose to 40% by 1971!

5) ITC was the first Indian company to prioritize consumer research, laying the ground for its legendary R&D center that is now half a century old.

6) It is rebranded today as ITC Life Sciences and Technology Centre and continues to play a pivotal role in developing its diverse product range across varied sectors.