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Why Mutual Funds are a Better Option for Retail Investors

It is simply instinctive to get attracted toward equity. The success stories – few true and many false – of people having become millionaires overnight, are bound to allure anyone. But the fact is that Stock Market isn’t easy money; Stock market is not everyone’s cup of tea.

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SENSEX: BLACK, GOLDEN OR BLEAK?

As the recent euphoria in Indian bourses began to settle down little by little, awe-inspiring sprut in volume and dramatic appreciation of scrips both in BSE and NSE caught too many retail investors, short-term traders, FIIs….by surprise. In the wake of Congress-led govt’s roaring comeback to power on Monday 18th May’09, what came to pass was termed as “historic”, “unprecedented”, …..! Some of them, especially the rumour savouring media, went an extra mile to crown the day as “Golden Monday”. Within a span of 5 to 6 years, a BLACK Monday left all its dark patches on a series of Grey Mondays, dull Tuesdays, darker Wednesdays, pale Thursdays and hopeless Fridays to enter the domain of light and thereby to emerge as “Golden Monday”! Of course there are sceptics about and they evidently posed a polar contrast. To them, the move hardly has got any leg both from the fundamental and technical perspectives, and put it as “unjustified, unabashed” and “malafied” practice of manipulation. In this article, let’s weigh the pros and cons of many faces of the event to find out how golden have been the tint of the prospects of Indian bourses on Monday May 18, 2009.

 

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