My Experience…..

Dear friends,

I am in a monotonous job routine, a fraction of my capabilities are lauded as that I am doing a great job and I wanted an intellectually challenging alternative intense work to relax.


Like all novices, I was attracted to the market watching the market gurus. … started following few Television Gurus and their recommendations. Convinced with their wisdom started buying the recommended stocks. The stocks which were daily going up, behaved completely opposite as if they were waiting for my entry to happen…. Started reading books on Market starting from Richdad Poordad …

Then started learning about fundamental analysis… So good…What else needed few strict criteria ( Low PE High Growth Low Debt and High ROE/ROA/ROCE ) applied on the stocks traded in the market can give a list of stocks where I can invest.

The ratios were very interesting … and found out my own magic ratio. Debt and Reserve adjusted Rate of Return. I felt as if I am the master now. That did not work too always. Sometimes my best fundamental picks did not go north due to bad entry points. When I am fed up with that and sell after the same stock used to zoooom. 

In the words of one of my learned Friend: Share market is a cauldron of several theories and postulates and models and… Theoretically, therefore, it cannot be deterministic. Only some trial and error model – heuristic – may help for some time. There are so many environmental variables in a stock price that it is not tenable to put them all in a simulation model. But if it is so uncertain then why try to predict it?

After years of meddling trying to learn from mistakes, realized… Good companies bought at a Technically Opportune time only will reward… For that, we have to marry the Technical Analysis with the Fundamental Analysis

I have developed a stencil in Access database linking many Excel Sheets for initial analysis.

I have a combination of short, medium and long term bets. If the price is less by 25% of the average PE ( say 3 years ) x Trailing EPS; that qualifies for attention, provided the PAT and Topline Growth is consistent. Then I wait for entry till the MACD in the weekly chart turns favorable. After it achieves the desired target, I book profit ( i will write a separate page on profit booking model )  allow the profit to run long and started adding on strength

This process populates my PF. When my PF as a whole reaches new high I will sit and close all my laggards… So far so good … Tadpole to Frog … long way to go

Comment by Mr.Pradip Roy  

Dear Mr Mohd Basheer

I appreciate ur efforts. Having said that may i put a note of caution!  Look Share market is a cauldron of several theories and postulates and models and ….. Theoretically, therefore, it can not be deterministic. Only some trial and error model – heuristic – may help for some time. There are so many environmental variables in a stock price that it is not tenable to put them all in a simulation model. But if it is so uncertain then why try to predict it?

Share market is a very passionate lover. Once u have fallen for it, there is no looking back.and ,like any proverbial love story it will either strip u naked or adorn u with most adrable jewellaary !

My Reply

Dear Pradip Roy Sir,

Thank you very much for your words of wisdom. I understand there is no magic formula to calculate the swings of human emotion. As you said i am in love with this stock market whether it strips me naked or reward me…

The amount of analysis I do is not at all necessary, but it thrills me. If I zero in and buy a stock and it turns out to be a flop fascinates me to explore. The winners I am not exited of…

What irritates me is the creative accounting even from famous companies …

Anyhow I am in love with the market… The more it becomes unpredictable the more i am amused….

Thank you again

My Method

What I understood reading books and observing the markets over a decade … is In long term, price follows earnings which is reported Quarterly. So this is what I call the FA signal. For the remaining of 89 days, stock price moves here and there, based on supply and demand without any solid reason behind them. This is the noise. One need to remove these noise from the price movement to get a feel of where the stock is going. TA makes meaning out of this noise and makes profit.

I collect watchlist of stocks from Result performance, Expert Picks, Recommendations from fund houses etc … and buy the first lot at a technically opportune time

When it reaches at a predetermined Target Price I sell all and buy 75% Quantity Quantity the same day at current market price

Now the safety factor achieved is 29%

Used to go on doing the same profit booking system till I gain confidence in the stock … if a stock retraces and comes back to the cost of holding price …. I exit without any hesitation.

After two profit bookings … a stock shall normally never make a loss again as the position building is gradual by averaging on the rise …. Unless otherwise there is a very valid reason I do not average on the way down

I have tried to explain with three stocks my profit booking analogy,,, hope it is understandable

After er a reasonable size is built up in a stock … it becomes part of the long term portfolio. It is a very boring process …Like stamp collection, it is a stock collection process

Once a stock enters into the Long Term Portfolio, I trim/add based on market condition. I book profit when the valuation goes beyond justifiable fundamentals … Like I did in Berger paints and start a SEP for the same amount booked …

I am happy with this process …. any suggestions welcome

Bharat Wire Ropes

Checked the numbers … yes, Sales growth is there … But all the symptoms of a bad company are also there … Huge debt … 70% Pledge

These Gurus are established stock Pickers … Let me closely watch How things change

Good …. These Guys are having the advantage of close to Management . IPO came for establishing Mega Factory of multifold production …. May be Factory is ready … RA s picks all are catching young the future champions

FA analysis is lagging information that gives a historical perspective and expects the history to extrapolate … It has no vision for the future. Business foresight is anticipating the market share and determining the Enterprise value

My Stencil

10 YEARS DATA DASHBOARD

During the process of learning, I looked into various websites to analyze the Earning / Fundamental data. I had to click through many pages –

Thought of designing a stencil to have a single page Dashboard which gives an overall view of a company

I am not a software guy … I am a bit familiar with Access database and developed this stencil

This stencil gives, in a nutshell, the last 10 years’ annual sales and Sales growth,  PAT, Profit Margin and Margin Growth . last few Quarters results…

A fair price based on historical valuations and a Target Price based on the hypothesis that Expected Returns are an extrapolation of what had been achieved historically.

  Data Inputs

Excel File containing Quarterly / Annual Results ( Sources: Screener.in , Ratestar .in )

EOD files from BSE Site

All are linked via Access Query and the result is expressed in an Access Form

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