Interest Rate Hikes: More to Follow

It was an Action packed week, with RBI Policy, RIL Results and Options Expiry. The week also offers pointers to the future direction of the markets.1. RBI hiked Repo Rates by 25 basis points and Reverse Repo by 50 basis points. Repo is the rate at which RBI lends to the banks and Reverse Repo is the rate at which it borrows from the commercial banks. The CRR or the Cash Reserve Ratio was left untouched.2. The RBI sent out a message that further rate...

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Option Pain

This is Option Expiry Week and lets look at what Options Expiry is all about?The definition for Option Pain taken from Optionpain.com is: "In the option market, wealth transfer between option buyers and sellers is a zero-sum game. On option expiration days, the underlying stock price often moves toward a point that brings maximum loss to option buyers. This specific price, calculated based on all outstanding options in the market, is called Option...

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Markets Next Week

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Cardinal Climax

Have a look at this interesting read.http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/234091-hewitt-heiserman/61457-rare-cardinal-climax-planetary-alignment-this-summer-puts-stocks-at-risk-says-veteran-sky-watcherArchie Crawford is one of the best financial astrologers liv...

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Bharti Airtel

I had written a guest post for Subhankar's blog. Here is the link for those interested in knowing about Bharti and the Telecom space.http://investmentsfordummieslikeme.blogspot.com/2010/07/bullish-case-for-bharti-airtel-guest.h...

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World Economies: Where do they stand

There are 2 very important indicators which I like to track to see where the World Economies are moving. Stock Markets are just an Indicator of the Real Economic Activities. They may or may not reflect the actual underlying strength or weakness of the economy. They may run up ahead of the fundamentals based on hope. A hope of a better future.Job Growth and the Housing Market are key barometers of how well a country is doing. why jobs? Jobs offer...

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Counter point to Paul Krugman

We read what Paul Krugman said on Third Depression.Bill Bonner tears away Krugman to pieces.Enjoy Reading:http://www.equitymaster.com/DailyReckoning/detail.asp?date=7/9/2010&story=3Bottomline: We are still where we were earlier. Nobody suggests how to get out of the ho...

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Taran Marwah Posts

I have been tracking Taran Marwah for the past couple of years and he proved right more often than not. I am listing his website below, so those interested can have a glance at it.http://www.afund.com/afundindia.html?Enjoy Reading...

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World Markets Down: Why are we holding up?

It was a tumultuous week for the World Markets. Europe, Shanghai and the US markets tanked. Indian Markets have fallen barely 3 pc from the peak. Why this divergence. In the first part, lets look at the charts.1. Check the Dollar Index, it topped out on June 7th and a corrective down-move began. This led to a sharp up-move in the Indian Markets. The reason is clear FIIs have been buying no-stop since that day. This is the hot money which chases fast...

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Volumes

This week we started at 5269 and after 4 days we are nowhere as yet. On Up days the Volumes are more than down days in the past 4 days.That means short term markets have more likelihood of rallying than breaking do...

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