Archive for May, 2009
An Insight of a Term Loan Evaluation by a Bank
The evaluation process by banks are one of the most comprehensive evaluations and can be used to evaluate almost any company. The presentation below tries to cover this process in few slides. The various topics covered include evaluation of companies, management rating, economics, risks and cash flow study.
Term Loan Appraisal (view in full screen [...]
“5 Trading Mantras” from Dad
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn
DAD had been into the markets for more than past 25 years. He successfully surfed the tides when others struggled. Being a broker cum investor for more than past 25 years, he has more experience than many books might teach. [...]
Free Stock Screeners for Indian Stocks
Stock Screeners are tools to help us find the stocks based on performance. Though we recently said that we were yet to have a good professional stock screener, we were able to find many. In fact, we were unaware that even BSE had its own little stock screener. Here we compare and review the free [...]
Google Finance – The best stock summarizer
There are many sites which provide the stock summary of India stocks on one page including Money Control, Rediff Money Wiz, Sify Finance, Yahoo! Finance etc. However, Google Finance is what we liked the most, and potentially the best stock screener in making. For financials, economic times remains the best.
Compare:
This is one feature that separates [...]
5 Great People – 50 Spectacular “Quotes”
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.
- Following the Equator
Warren Buffett –
The guru to almost every investor. The Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, and also ranked by Forbes as the second richest person in the world.
I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on [...]
Twittering the Market
Twitter is probably the fastest way to get the news and gossips. It’s quick, it’s fun and it’s better than the TV.
Just in case you are new to Twitter, here is Twitter explained in plain English.
Twitter in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.
How can Twitter help me with Indian stock markets ?
Twitter is micro blogging. [...]
Awesome BSEXL – One Excel sheet for everything
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” – Bruce Lee
Excel is one tool which we all have used more times than the calculators itself. Then why not get all the data of the companies on an excel sheet ? [...]
CHI Investments – Interestingly mis-priced
CHI Investments
Investment Rationale:
Holds investments worth Rs. 224.00 Cr as on 11th May, 2009 while it’s own market cap is just Rs. 28.50 Cr. The company is debt free. (Annexure 1)
Compared to other investment/holding companies, CHI is available at just 1/10th of the value of [...]
Steve Job’s shares three stories of his life – Must Watch
Steve Jobs is the CEO and co-founder of Apple and Pixar Studios, or in today’s language founder of the modern iPhones and iPods. Pixar is also the worlds largest animation company. The speech was given at The Stanford University in 2005.
I love this video and have watched it many many times. One must keep looking until [...]
How Stock Market works – Weekend Fun
Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for Rs10. The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them.
The man bought thousands at Rs10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their [...]
