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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 ? [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
10 (or even more) Years financial data of Indian companies
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. – Warren Buffett BSE India and other sites including Money Control, all provide the financial data of maximum 5 years. So what to do if you want the data of more than 5 years ? Economic Times provides the [...]
10 Business Geniuses to read about [Interviews]
Reading about the successful investors, managers, entrepreneurs and others gives not only the inspiration but also new ideas. We are an ardent reader of the esteem daily – “Mint.” The “Business Lounge” section interviews a successful Indian business person every Saturday. The interviews are written in a very unorthodox style and worth waiting for every [...]
Welcome to Dalaal-Street.com
“Dalaal-Street”, also commonly known as the “Wall Street of India”. This blog is dedicated to the thousands of people who are the part of this wonderful world of investing. Their talks, their ideas, their success, etc. will be shared here. The blog is authored by Pratyush Mittal. He is a Chartered Accountancy student and in [...]
