In this blog, we have always maintained that selecting a stock for trading is not really a tough task. In fact it is very easy. You can do it by any method, random or involving some research. At the most one will go wrong and lose some money. The real difficult part is staying with the trade when it works out.
The problem does not lie with the wrong trades. Traders continue with that. It is the trades which go right are real problem. Traders do not know what to do with these trades. Whether to get out or not? How much profit is enough?
And generally there are no answers forthcoming for such questions.
I would suggest staying in a trade for as long as possible , maybe even for two /three years. After all, any new trade will have similar chance of success or failure. So why not stay with what is going right?
Traders like to be active even at the cost of losing money.
Let us see how some selections have performed over a long period.
Selections Made in May 2017 :
The above image is conversation in COMMENTS to one of my answers on Quora. The comment was posted on May 30, 2017.
The first comparison was done after almost 3 months. The status in August 2017 was:
After 3 months, 7 out of 9 short selections were right while NIFTY had moved higher in that period.
From then on, NIFTY has made new high on multiple occasions and is currently trading at 11456 which is 19.4% higher than 9595 on May 26, 2017.
The status of these selections as on March 22, 2019 is :
RELIANCE has gained 100% in this 20 month period while DRREDDY is up about 14%.
All the other 7 stocks are down , the biggest fall coming in RCOM and RELINFRA. BHEL and CANBK are also prominent losers.
The best part about these selections is that that 7 out of 9 stocks have fallen when NIFTY has been going up all the time.
Staying short in these trades would have given profits even when the market direction was wrong. Just imagine the results if NIFTY were to go below 9595 level which existed on May 26, 2017.
We all can make such selections. Do not think too much of it.
Good stocks keep rising and bad ones keep falling. I think these selections are a good example of this fact.
Reference to Quora posts :
For the Quora comments :
For 3 months comparison:
Comments
vishal agarwal March 24, 2019 at 10:23 am
Sir, you have a unique way of looking at market and stocks. Going by your style one can just focus on a confined list of stocks to make money. Also for a lot of stocks, the direction is also set which is down. So all we need to do is just wait for the right opportunity to go short in these stocks.
ReplyT.sai March 24, 2019 at 10:28 am
Thank you sir for giving such statistics.
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