Don't believe, it's been a decade

It has changed a lot in the perspective how I used to do trading or investing. I do remember my first trade on National Stock Exchange using the web platform on Indraprastha Gas Limited (less than 50 shares, trading sub 80 prices). Believe it or not, I had some insider information about the amount of dividend that the company was going to declare. It was just Rupees 1.5, and I don't remember whether I entered into this trade just for the dividend or something else. I had no idea at that time on the pricing movement relative to dividend or that you don't have to pay any tax on this income.

After ten years, it has changed a lot. Dividend is an important factor in my stock selection criteria, and I know how stock prices react during the dividend record dates, both pre-event and post-event. Well, it's been a long journey, be it volumes or the transaction amount or the instruments I now currently use day to day with ease and without any fear. 

Something which hasn't changed much, that all this shit is rigged. A lot of insider information leaked out to the privileged few and it's very difficult to make money with the public information if you are doing trading. A recent example should be of Oil. Oil is falling and the OPEC is not cutting production which means that oil is going to fall further. There was an article in Bloomberg saying that this is their deliberate attempt to wipe out the small shale gas producers. Nobody knows what's rigging at higher levels. Everybody knows this, and therefore, equity investments come with a disclaimer of risk.

Stay Invested!!
vA