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Friday, March 24, 2017

NAIL THE FENCE - NAIL THE ANGER STORY !!!

Once upon a time there was a little boy who was talented, creative, handsome, and extremely bright. A natural leader. The kind of person everyone would normally have wanted on their team or project. But he was also self-centered and had a very bad temper. When he got angry, he usually said, and often did, some very hurtful things. In fact, he seemed to have little regard for those around him. Even friends. So, naturally, he had few. “But, arrogantly, he told himself, that how stupid most people are!”
As he grew, his parents became concerned about this personality flaw, and pondered long and hard about what they should do. Finally, the father had an idea. And he struck a bargain with his son. He gave him a bag of nails, and a BIG hammer. “Whenever you lose your temper,” he told the boy, “I want you to really let it out. Just take a nail and drive it into the oak boards of that old fence out back. Hit that nail as hard as you can!”
Of course, those weathered oak boards in that old fence were almost as tough as iron, and the hammer was mighty heavy, so it wasn’t nearly as easy as it first sounded. Nevertheless, by the end of the first day, the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence (That was one angry young man!). Gradually, over a period of weeks, the number dwindled down. Holding his temper proved to be easier than driving nails into the fence! Finally the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all. He felt mighty proud as he told his parents about that accomplishment.
As a sign of your success,” his father responded, “you get to PULL OUT one nail. In fact, you can do that each day that you don’t lose your temper even once.”
Well, many weeks passed. Finally one day the young boy was able to report proudly that all the nails were gone. At that point, the father asked his son to walk out back with him and take one more good look at the fence. “You have done well, my son,” he said. “But I want you to notice the holes that are left. No matter what happens from now on, this fence will never be the same. Saying or doing hurtful things in anger produces the same kind of result. There will always be a scar. It won’t matter how many times you say you’re sorry, or how many years pass, the scar will still be there. And a verbal wound is as bad as a physical one. People are much more valuable than an old fence. They make us smile. They help us succeed. Some will even become friends who share our joys, and support us through bad times. And, if they trust us, they will also open their hearts to us. That means we need to treat everyone with love and respect. We need to prevent as many of those scars as we can.”
A most valuable lesson learned. Everyone gets angry occasionally. The real test is what we DO or how we react when we are angry. If we are wise, we will spend our time building bridges rather than barriers in our relationship. This story is probably not new and you might have read or heard it before. But everytime when you read this it brings a fresh perspective and each time reminds us the side effects of not keeping our anger in control

Thursday, March 23, 2017

KNOWLEDGE PAYS THE BEST INTERESTS !!!


Friends , many times in our markets invetors or traders always strive to understand whats happening with particular stock or the markets as a whole, here comes the experience, knowledge and wisdom to the rescue. I came across many stories on markets and one such is articulated here about the power of training and wisdom. 

This story is in Arabic context where an arab sheik, father of three sons left 17 Camels as an Asset after his death. His will was read to his three sons. The Will of the Sheik were Father stated that the Eldest son should get half of 17 camels, the middle son should be given 1/3rd of 17 camels, the youngest son should be given 1/9th of the 17 camels.

As it is not possible to divide 17 into half or 17 by 3 or 17 by 9, the sons started to fight with each other. So, they decided to go to Cadi (judge) a wise man. The wise man listened patiently about the Will. The wise man, after giving this thought, brought one camel of his own & added the same to 17. That increased the total to 18 camels.

Now, he started reading the deceased father’s will again.

Half of 18 to eldest son = 9.

So he gave 9 camels to the eldest son.

1/3rd of 18 to middle son = 6.

So he gave 6 camels to the middle son.

1/9th of 18 to youngest son = 2.

So he gave 2 camels to the youngest son.


Now add this up:

9 + 6 + 2 = 17 &

This leaves 1 camel, which the wise man took back.

MORAL of the story: Training or wisdom is that 18th camel that we bring to the table to solve any problem! However, to reach a solution, the first step is to believe that there is a solution. If we think that there is no solution, we won’t be able to reach any!  -  READ SUCH STORIES HERE


                                           !! HAPPY INVESTING !!


MORE SUCH SHORT STORIES - here
 

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Thursday, June 16, 2016

PANDIT & THE POWER OF COMPOUNDING !!!

Hello friends, after a very long time coming up with an interesting short story on market, till now we have heard stories narrated or heard as in foreign context, today I have this Indian story – the story is quite interesting and very simple in understanding – It goes like this

Once upon a time in a very small Indian village there lived a poor Brahmin poet. His financial condition worsen to such a level that he was not able to feed his wife and a new born baby. Tired with his misery and poverty he decided to seek help from the king. He went to the king’s palace where, King was playing chess with one of his minister. King told him to visit his darbar (court) the next day and recite some of his poems. Next day the Brahmin went to his court and on the permission of the king started reading his poems and songs, King was pleased and happy with his creations & granted Brahmin to wish something as a reward. Brahmin thinking for a second pointed his finger towards the chess board & requested King to place one grain of rice in one box of the chess and double that in the next box till the enitre chess board is filled. King laughingly said “Just rice grains ! - King was astonished by this and said, "You don’t want gold coins or land or big house !”. Brahmin said “No, just one rice grain in one box an double that grain in next till the entire chess boxes get filled, doing so I will feel that I received my reward.”     

King and the court started laughing on the simple thinking of Brahmin and king ordered his courtier's to bring rice grains. King's men started putting one grain in one chess box and two grains in second and four grains in third and eight grains in fourth and so on, when they reached tenth box, they needed to put in 512 grains. Till the twentieth box, this number increased to 5,24,288 rice grains, and when they reached half on 32th box this number increased to 214,74,83,648 rice grains and within hours this number went into billions. Ultimately, the King had to surrender to the intelligence of the Brahmin and gave away all of his riches to him because Kings promise is a promise to full fill his wish and this all started with just One grain of rice.


Moral of the story – Never under estimate the Power of Compounding (Read one such real story on compounding - Here ), and investing minimum amount every month in SIP,  can create great wealth for your retirement -  READ SUCH STORIES HERE

                                           !! HAPPY INVESTING !!


MORE SUCH SHORT STORIES - here


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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

DON'T BUY BCOZ SOMEONE IS BUYING !!

Hii Friends,
Once again I am back with very funny but meaningful story I recently heard at my work place. It's always fortunate to be surrounded with so much of wisdom. This story was narrated by one of our elderly client who read this story in his early days and narrated this story to us on hearing someone saying that so and so stock is being bought by some influential big investor, so we should buy that..... contradicting to that he narrated this story, thus giving us the unforgettable lesson on how we should learn to apply our own mind and not to be fettered by the saying of others, develop your own thought process -  




It was Autumn!
And the Red Indians asked their newly elected chief if the winter was going to be cold or mild. Since the new Red Indian chief was from the modern school of thoughts, he was never been taught the old secrets and so he couldn't tell what the weather was going to be. Nevertheless, to be on the safer side, he replied to his tribe that the winter was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the village should collect wood to be prepared. But also being a practical leader, he went to the phone booth, called the National Weather Service and asked ''Is the coming winter going to be cold? ''

'It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold indeed,' the meteorologist at weather service responded. So the Chief went back to his people and told his tribe mens to collect even more wood. 

A week later, he called the National Weather Service again. 'Is it going to be a very cold winter?'

'Yes,' the man at National Weather Service again replied, 'It's definitely going to be a very cold winter.' The Chief again went back to his people and ordered them to collect every scrap of wood they could find.

Two weeks later, he called the National Weather Service again. 'Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?'

'Absolutely,' The man replied. 'It's going to be one of the coldest winters ever.
'How can you be so sure?' the Chief asked. The weatherman replied, 'The Red Indians are collecting woods like crazy.'

This is how stock markets works. Those who trust on rumours or stock call tips and see evidence of their correctness in the stock prices moving up or down may be caught in the same game. Many a times while the choice of stocks may be right, but the timing of purchase goes wrong. Thus, investors end up buying stocks after the prices have moved up sharply and they get tired or depressed as the stock refuses to climb in the short term or declines. And they end up exiting the counter just as the valuation starts moving up again. And left regeretted, so friends just don't buy because someone is buying - Hear them out why they bought that particular stock - understand their rational behind it - Apply your mind - can u understand the business - Do your set of homework - ask questions if u dont understand any aspects - then go for it - DON'T JUST INTIMATE PEOPLE, Develope your own thought process !!! -  READ SUCH STORIES HERE

                                                      !! HAPPY INVESTING !!

Reader Friends, grab a fresh hot cup of coffee, turn on your net & browse on to www.bhavikkshah.blogspot.com & take out few minutes to get to know the most interesting world of investment... Till then HAPPY INVESTING, don't forget to Share !!

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Monday, April 20, 2015

GOD & INVESTOR STORY !!! (FPFS – Day 5)

Hii Friends , 
This is my Fifth and the last day for Five Pics Five Stories challange and my all posts relating to this challenge is here (FPFS- day 4)

I am into a proffession whereby we deal with money, mostly other people's money, so it takes great responsibility to manage that, off course when you win you are praised but when you loose you are criticized. People always asks us what will the markets be, what will so and so stocks prices will be, and I say I don't know, I only know that this company is doing its best and is well managed and I see its future cash flows being intact and so I feel that this business should grow. But do I know what would be its prices be, NO I Don't know, M not GOD we are humans as you are and so we also cant predict future... 

Remember no one can buy at the bottom prices & Sell at top, So we try to find out stocks which are available at discounts and looking at margin of safety, we are humans too and so can do mistakes and that's why we have Strict Stop Loss (why stoploss of 8% - read Here) on our stock picks. Talking on Prices reminds me a short story told by my Uncle about an Investor who met God - 


Commuter reading Daily in Firstclass compartment in
mumbai local in rush hours 
A man dealing with stocks met God - God asked him to make one wish - he said "GOD please give me the copy of news paper dated excatly after 2 years from now"!. God was suprised but still granted his wish and Gave him the NEWSPAPER which was dated 2 years from now...... 

The first thing that man did was opened up the business page & Saw the stocks prices and invested in those stocks immediately which could fetch him multi-millions after 2 years.... After few days of buying spree and as tended by the Human psychology, he felt let me see what would be the news around the world after two years from now and turning on the pages he landed on Obituary section - On Which his Name was the First !!  - So, what this tells us, that do live in present and dont worry what will be there in future, Just live your life at the fullest .. 

This is my last day for the challenge series and I hope you all must have enjoyed reading some of the offbeat post, it was bit difficult for me to going into the creative zone after a long long time, I dont know how it has turnout.. but will say I enjoyed this very much.. after a very long time I was thinking beyond markets ..hehehe :)
Anyways thanks friends for your amazing supports !!

Please do keep on ur support for me & pl do visit again and share the posts :)

 Regards
Bhavikk shah
mumbai  



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I have been tagged by my dear friend Shweta, to take part in Five Photos Five Stories Challenge (FPFS) which is - Post a picture for 5 consecutive days and attach a post to it, fiction,poem or short wrtie-up. It can be anything to suit your taste. Thanks Shweta for tagging me :) I am tagging my blogger friend Priyanka Artiste, She is a brilliant, passionate & talented photographer.. All the best Priyanka... I hope u all enjoyed the 5 day series :)

Saturday, April 18, 2015

BAZAAR !!! (FPFS – Day 3)

Hii Friends, 
This is my Third day for Five Pics Five Stories challenge and my first post relating to this challenge is here (FPFS- day 2)
This is a beautiful poem by Harivansh Rai Bachhan which I feel fits perfectly on Markets.

Mumbai's famous Chor Bazaar 

यहाँ सब कुछ बिकता है , दोस्तों रहना जरा संभाल के !!!

बेचने वाले हवा भी बेच देते है , गुब्बारों में डाल के !!!


सच बिकता है , झूट बिकता है, बिकती है हर कहानी !!!


तीन लोक में फेला है , फिर भी बिकता है बोतल में पानी !!!



कभी फूलों की तरह मत जीना,



जिस दिन खिलोगे... टूट कर बिखर्र जाओगे ।



जीना है तो पत्थर की तरह जियो;

जिस दिन तराशे गए... "खुदा" बन जाओगे ।।

-- ।। हरिवंशराय बच्चन ।।


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I have been tagged by my dear friend Shweta, to take part in Five Photos Five Stories Challenge (FPFS) which is - Post a picture for 5 consecutive days and attach a post to it, fiction,poem or short wrtie-up. It can be anything to suit your taste. Thanks Shweta for tagging me :) I am tagging my blogger friend Deepa Prabhu, She started photography as a hobby which has now become her passion. A very brilliant photographer will surely amase us with her talent. I will tag a new person on Day Four :) 

Friday, April 17, 2015

THE FISHERMAN & INVESTMENT BANKER (FPFS – Day 2) !!!

Hii Friends , 
This is my second day for Five Pics Five Stories challenge and my first post relating to this challenge is here (FPFS- day 1)
A few weeks ago, I came across this fantastic story about a fisherman and an Investment Banker. 



This is the story that states the "Be More with Less" principle of life. We are so inclined with the materialistic world today, that we forget the importance of what we have. We work harder and harder to make more & more, so that we can buy more, to have more, like being in a rat race just to have more. I too was no exception to that, atleast before knowing this story. This story makes you realise how important is to live the real life                                   ...... (my Investment banker friends, do read this ) .......

So, the story is - An American Investment Banker was at the pier of small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked in. Inside the small boat there were several large yellow fin tuna fishes. Impressed by the catch of the fisherman, the American Investment banker complimented the Mexican fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.

The Mexican replied," Only a little while". The American then asked why didn't he stay out longer in the sea and catch more fish? The Mexican said he had enough to support his family's immediate needs. The American then asked, " but what do you do with the rest of your time?"

The Mexican fisherman replied, " I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take a nap in afternoon, stroll into the village each evening where I sip Wine, and play guitar with my amigos. I have a full and busy Life." 

On hearing this the American scoffed, "I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat. With the proceeds from the bigger boats, you could buy several boats, eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to middlemen you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then to LA and eventually to New York, where you will run your expanding enterprise"

The Mexican fisherman asked, " But, how long will this all take?"

To which the American replied,"15 - 20 years".

"But what then?" Asked the mexican. 

The American laughed and said,"That's the best part. When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and became very rich, you would make millions !!" 

Fisherman said," Millions - then What?"

The American said, "Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take an afternoon nap, stroll to the village in the evening where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos." 

This story is smiply superb, it brings clarity to what the money game is all about & definitely not about. This story brillantly breaks the illusions of ours for pursuing wealth and financial freedom. We have so forgotten to all the goodness we're surrounded by today just in race to chase the money.

The truth is it doesn't take lot of money to have a truly wealthy life, but it does take freedom. Believe it or not values do determine your path in life, regardless of your financial goals. Having clarity around issues like these develops you as an better financially sound person - at both times, while building wealth and after wealth is achieved.


I hope you like this story which I read somewhere, but the story do teaches US a lots ENJOY!!! 

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I have been tagged by my dear friend, Shweta to take part in Five photos Five stories Challenge (FPFS) which is- Post a picture for 5 consecutive days and attach a post to it , fiction, poem or short write-up. It can be anything to suit your taste. Thank you Shweta for tagging me :)
This is different for me as I have never tried such as U all know I am finance guy but as we say "There's always the First Time" so here it is...I am tagging my dear friend Renu Sethi on my Day Two and as a part of the challenge, I will tag a new person on Day Three.

Thursday, April 16, 2015

My Work Place (FPFS – Day 1)

Hii Friend's, 
One of my dearest friend tagged me with Five Pics Five Stories challenge and I was like ... How will I write it and on what topic as I write only on Stocks which are much easier than this !! Yes, it is hehe !!!

Anyway, So I thought let me write about what I know and Yup it clicked me, what could be more interesting than to write on the place where I work !!! Here is my Day 1 of my FPFS challenge

                              !! THE ICONIC BSE (PHIROZE JJ TOWER) !!
The iconic Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Tower is in South Mumbai and houses Asia's oldest 140 year-old bourse BSE, also known as BOMBAY STOCK EXCHANGE. It's a 29 storey tower with area space of around 3,50,000 sq. ft, accomodating 540 odd entities mainly by brokers and financial institutions since 1980. BSE is located exactly in between Dalal Street, Hamam Street, and Bombay Samachar Marg. which gives easy access to financial institutions with the stock exchange and so BSE, the building is not only important in commercial value but also a symbol of financial capital. BSE is Asia's first & fastest Stock Exchange with a speed of 200 microseconds. BSE has more than 5,500 companies listed making it the world's No.1 exchange in terms of listed companies. The companies listed on BSE commands a total market capitalization of US$ 1.69 Trillion as on 15 April 2015. The exchange buliding was targeted by terrorists in 1993 when a powerful car bomb exploded in the basement of BSE buliding claiming 50 lives, after that BSE was fortified with "Z" category security control and half a dozen commandos are always stationed in the building premises permanently.


This is the second entrance at east where a Five-foot tall bronze Bull Statue is erected since 2008, you have to get a security clearance, whereby you are issued a security pass. This entrance at the east is infamous due to superstitious beliefs from old-timers that it gave a big fall in markets with Harshad Mehta scam soon after these gates were opened.

The most interesting I feel is this particular spot, there is a Sugarcane juice center just in front of the Eastern gate with Bull Statue with a huge screen which plays live news from the Business channel. What's interesting is that during lunchtime lot of people gather there, some having cane juice and some having famous sandwiches of Paramesh or famous Dosa's from Jay Snacks and
they all would be talking only on stocks. You will hear people saying so and so stock will go up or down, some would be starring at the screen, some would be calling their brokers giving instructions for buy or sell. This particular place becomes more evident when there's a fall in the market, all kinds of emotions from traders to professionals, even the security commandos are not spared they too enjoy the sites....after all this is for money honey !!! 





A GLIMPSE FROM HISTORY !!







This was my first attempt, hope that you all like it.. do share your views and comment on it.. Have a wonderful day Ahead :)



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I have been tagged by my dear friend, Shweta to take part in Five photos Five stories Challenge (FPFS) which is- Post a picture for 5 consecutive days and attach a post to it, fiction, poem, or short write-up. It can be anything to suit your taste. Thank you, Shweta for tagging me :)
This is different for me as I have never tried such as you all know I am a finance guy but as we say "There's always the First Time" so here it is...I am tagging my blogger friend Namrata Kumari on Day One and as a part of the challenge, I will tag a new person on Day Two.
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