{"id":2037,"date":"2010-01-23T14:39:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T09:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2010-01-23T14:39:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T09:09:04","slug":"mistake-generally-made-by-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/mistake-generally-made-by-investors\/","title":{"rendered":"Mistake generally made by investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Biggest Mistake is simply following                        Trend .<\/span><\/strong> We have seen a classic example of this irrational investor                        behaviour in the last few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Till the first week of May, we witnessed an unprecedented                          one-way rise in the stock market for almost six months.<\/p>\n<p>Valuations were stretched. Experts were advising caution.                          But people had forgotten that markets do fall. So they                          kept buying.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>They were afraid that if they did not buy today, the                          prices would go up tomorrow and they would have missed                          out. It was a case of panic buying.<\/p>\n<p>Then we saw a market crash.<\/p>\n<p>The Sensex fell almost 1500-1600 points.<\/p>\n<p>Now, people were selling as if there was no tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Fundamentally, the economy still looks pretty solid.                          The expectation of corporate growth is promising. So there                          is no reason to believe that the shares have lost their                          basic value. This is just panic selling.<\/p>\n<p>If we look at our investments from the fundamental perspective,                          we will not buy when everyone is buying and the market                          is over-valued. Similarly, we will not sell just because                          everyone is selling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biggest Mistake is simply following Trend . We have seen a classic example of this irrational investor behaviour in the last few weeks. Till the first week of May, we witnessed an unprecedented one-way rise in the stock market for almost six months. Valuations were stretched. Experts were advising caution. But people had forgotten that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5675,3311,5674],"class_list":{"0":"post-2037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"tag-investing-mistakes","8":"tag-investors","9":"tag-mistakes-by-investors","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}