30 books I wish I read before Investing my hard-earned money:

1. You can be a Stock Market Genius by Joel Greenblatt
2. Common Stocks, Uncommon Profits by Phil Fisher
3. Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman
4. The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon
5. Winning the Loser's Game by Charles Ellis

Name two or three stocks in your portfolio which you are betting would grow their profits at 15-20% CAGR for the next 5 years.
Reply below to make this a useful thread.

A Mega-Thread on a 111-year-old conglomerate and one the most debated stocks of the Indian stock markets #ITC (Earlier known as Imperial Tobacco of India) @ITCCorpCom

(Would appreciate a retweet as it helps educate more investors and inspires us to work harder on such threads.)

1) ITC first set foot in 1910 at Calcutta based on agricultural products and services.

2) A year later in 1911, it began sourcing leaf tobacco from South Indian Farmers to mass-produce consumer cigarettes, a landscape it would dominate for over a century!

3) In 1911, They set up a stall at the Delhi Darbar to promote Scissors, one of ITC's initial cigarette brands.

The constant need for promotions ultimately led to the relocation of the company from Calcutta to Delhi.

4) The first step of ITC’s Indianization was initiated in 1954 with 6% Indian shareholding. It steadily rose to 40% by 1971!

5) ITC was the first Indian company to prioritize consumer research, laying the ground for its legendary R&D center that is now half a century old.

6) It is rebranded today as ITC Life Sciences and Technology Centre and continues to play a pivotal role in developing its diverse product range across varied sectors.

Top 10 Useful Stock Market Related Apps:
1) Screener
2) Rate Star
3) BSE India
4) Valuepickr
5) Tickertape
6) Stock Edge
7) Investopedia
8) Tijori Finance
9) Markets Mojo
10) Moneycontrol

Few apps/tools we use for stock research:

1) @Tijori1
2) @mystockedge
3) @screener_in
4) @TickertapeIN
5) @Trendlyne
6) @Investopedia
7) @moneycontrolcom
8) Research Bytes
9) Google Finance
10) Valuepickr

Do comment below with a tool/app that you use the most for research.

From selling snacks on the street to building a multi-billion-dollar empire

Mega-Thread on the story of Haldiram's

Would appreciate a Retweet or like as it helps us educate more investors and inspire us in producing more such content.

1) Ganga Bhisen Agarwal, affectionately known as Haldiram by her mother, started The Haldiram Empire in 1937 before India gained independence.

2) He was born into a Malwadi family in Bikaner and married Champa Devi.

3) He started out selling Bhujia, as per his aunt's recipe in his father's namkeen and snacks shop.

4) However, he and his wife later fled home owing to a family quarrel.

5) Later he started by selling on the street mong daal namkeen prepared by his wife.

6) Haldiram opened his first business in Bikaner in 1946. He began selling his Bikaneri Bhujia there.

7) He recreated the Bhujia by including moth flour and made it thinner. His sales and income improved dramatically because of all of these adjustments.

8) Later on, Haldiram attended a wedding in Kolkata, and only he got the idea to set up his shop there.

9) With this step, the first branching out of the Bikaner Bhujia business was started.

A thread on Risk and Returns

Trader X -

Net-worth - 5 Cr
Trading capital - 25 lakh

Trader Y -

Net-worth - 30 lakh
Trading capital - 25 lakh

Trader X take risk of 2% per trade and he makes about 30-40 % Return on trading capital per month,

Whereas Trader Y only risk 0.25% per trade and he makes about 3-4 % on Trading capital per month.

Trader Y saw how much trader X is making with the same amount of capital that he has.

He is frustrated with his mediocre results as compared to Trader X, though he don’t know the fact that Trader X Is only trading with 5 % of his total net worth.

Trader X has much more risk taking ability in Rupee terms as compared to the Trader Y because he has higher net-worth.

Trader X will not have much impact when he goes into deep Drawdowns , 40-50% where as if the Trader Y goes below 15% DD , it will have deep psychological impact on him.

Even if the Trader X makes 100% return on his trading capital , turns 25 lakh into 50 lakhs ,

(1/25) A number of Silicon Valley investors are putting their money and influence into a campaign to gaslight rape victims into not seeking medical treatment

despite the warnings of top law enforcement officials

and NOBODY is talking about this.

(2/25) First, a little about me. I used to be a licensed sexual assault crisis counselor, counseling victims admitted to one of three Minneapolis emergency rooms.

After I'd speak to the victim, they'd receive a medical exam from a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE).

(3/25) During the exam, DNA and other evidence is collected with a "rape kit" to optionally be used in a civil or criminal case.

(4/25) But collecting evidence is not the ONLY reason to receive an exam.

The victim may also receive:
- counseling (hello!)
- treatment for (potentially invisible) injuries
- medications like Plan B and emergency antiretroviral therapy for HIV prophylaxis.

(5/25) Leda Health, a startup cofounded by Madison Campbell and Liesel Vaidya, is raising money to sell "do-it-yourself" rape kits that wouldn't require a hospital visit

which is possibly the most HARMFUL startup idea that I have ever heard of.

Thread on "The Final Checklist"
by Peter Lynch.

~ Ideas can come from anywhere - Peter Lynch.

~ If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some - Peter Lynch.

~ All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don’t work out - Peter Lynch.

~ Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies - Peter Lynch.

Price + Open Interest (OI) + Volume = Deadly Combo

There are many tools for Open Interest. Options Decoder from @TrueData2 is one of the simple yet powerful tools on options and OI.

Below are the 10 Powerful Features of Options Decoder

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#1 - PE CE Difference

This feature combines the OI of call options and put options and plots against each other.

At one glance, we can know what big players are doing!

(If they are selling more CE means, they are bearish on the underlying instrument)

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#2 - Advance/Decline

This feature displays all the F&O stocks in one place.

In one click, we can see the stocks in any order (like an increase in price, increase in OI, or decrease in volume, etc).

A highly useful feature for options traders!

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#3 - Open High

This feature displays all the strike prices that have an open high (or open low) for the selected instrument.

If many CE strikes show "Open Low", then the market is bullish!

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#4 - IV Price-OI Chart

This feature plots CE and PE vs. Open Interest (OI) for the ATM strike price.

Always Remember:

CE Long Build Up + PE Short Build Up = BULLISH

PE Long Build Up + CE Short Build Up = BEARISH

CE Short Build Up + PE Short Build Up = SIDEWAYS

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Trendline is basically use for majoring trend 📈 of any stock.

It is also useful for indentify demand & supply ....

Here it's applications 👇

➡️It is formed when a diagonal line can be drawn between a minimum of three or more price pivot points.

And that all three points must tested equally.

example 👇 #sis

➡️ Trendline is mainly useful for identifying trend 👇

⚡Uptrend - #happiestmind

⚡Downtrend - #bluedart

➡️ It is also useful for support & resistance.

Ex - ⚡ #happiestmind

⚡ #omaxe

➡️ If three point 📍have not be touched clearly then it is wrong ❌

Ex - ⚡ #bluedart

⚡#zeemedia