The art of selling

The other day I was reading a book on investments - Contrarian Investment strategies. It reminded me of the day I had tried reading "Gone with the Wind" during high school days. There were too many characters and nothing went into my head. I dropped out at around 110 pages. Now I am at the 60th page on this book and its giving me the same kind of creeps. Too many variables to comprehend. Infact the author mentions that stock markets are full of complex variables which cannot be comprehended by a human brain and this is where everybody ranging from experts to retail investors fail (trying to time the market). Little would he have realised that his book is going to be full of such variables which would be tuff to comprehend (chuckle!!). Anyways its a do or die situation for me with respect to stock markets. I have to tame the markets to get me to the super riches. Hence I stayed on with the book. But offcourse skipping most of the sentences and trying to skim out the important parts. But I am not getting what I am looking for. I want to know when to sell a stock, how many days to hold it? But this book doesnt seem to tell me anything of that sort. Everybody knows when to buy a stock. Low P/E, Low book values, high cash flows. But when do we sell? Anybody has any idea?

Environment Freindly..

These days all talks are about environment. Environment friendly vehicles, Environment friendly machines, Environment friendly campuses, Environment friendly bikinis (This is amongst the latest news I have heard). Guess Thai bikinis are made of Fish skin and offcourse we need to get rid of these bikinis as they are not environment friendly. Imagine if these bikinis start rotting in your cupboard or worst while wearing them. But the best of all inventions till date and the most environment friendly of them all i'll tell you has been what is dubbed as the "Father of all bombs" (chuckle!!). Isnt it great that we as a human race have matured so much that even while making bombs and artillery we think of mother earth. It doesnt matter that the bombs when used can cause catastrophic results. But they are offcourse environment friendly. Its just that they'll wipe out any living being on earth. thereby leaving no environment at all.

Crazy Me

Its been one whole year since I myself visited this page. I don't know if its a problem with Gemini or if its with me but I tend to lose interest in everything that I start off with. I got a couple of requests from friends to continue writing but I just couldn't put my brain to so much trouble. Unexpected was the fact that even a request from a gorgeous babe did not ignite the passion to blog. Main apne marzi ka malik hoon and here I am blogging again trying to fight off the Gemini trademark.

Random Rantings..

This is my second day as a blolgger. I used to wonder all these days what's there to write each day. Is one's life so very eventful that you get to create new posts each day or is it just that people imagine even their coughing and farting to be as eventful as a mission to the moon. I am sure I will realise this as I grow old as a blogger. But for now this is my second blog and its on the second day.
I have started hating the breed of bloggers who make fun of their ugly aunts. These dudes and dudettes think of themselves as real cool but they don't realise they are as ugly as their aunts and their blogs even uglier. It comes as a package with the genes. You will realise this if you have read the Ken Follet authored novel "The Third Twin". For now lets keep the twins aside as they are not the cause of my ranting and neither are these dudes and dudettes the cause of my ranting who hate their aunts and whose blogs I hate.
The cause of my spoilt mood is the reason that I was turned down transfer to my hometown. My manager summoned me early morning to his office to tell me that I can either get a transfer to telecom dept and stay in chennai or go back to insurance dept and seek transfer to bangalore from there. There was this drama going on between the indian officials, Mulford and US regarding the nuke deal.

Mulford: Can you come to my office?
Indian Official: Sure I'll be there.
Mulford: See I spoke to the US authorities, and they say that if you don't vote against Iran then the nuke deal is off.
Indian Official: India cannot be pressurised under any circumstance. We are a sovereign country. We will do what suits our country the best..

But everybody knew what this meant. This meant "We will definitely vote against Iran. Why the damn are you making a hue and cry of this."

My situation seemed pretty much similar and my manager seemed none other than Mulford.

Mulford: Can you come to my office?
Me: Sure, I'll be there.
Mulford: See I spoke to the DM, and he says the telecom transfer deal is off if you ask for a transfer to bangalore.
Me: ok
Mulford: So please decide, you want a transfer to telecom dept or a transfer to bangalore.
Me: I will decide and let you know.

I came off his office like a meek rat without even being as brave as those indian officials. I could have atleast asked him for the reason of me being declined a transfer. Instead here I am ranting in front of you guys and a while ago trying to scare the hell out of my girl. As if she were the main reason for this plight of mine.

This reminds me of two more things that I hate most
Management and
Cowards..

The art of hanging on..

After deciding to flow along with the tide (the tide of writing blogs) I have created this spot for myself. Never in my life have I taken anything seriously nor have I hanged on until finish. This too I am sure will end unfinished somewhere down the line.
Hey I might seem like a pessimist.. but wait until I complete. Though I leave stuff unfinished and half done I have always had the knack of getting off one tide and hanging onto another which happens to be the tide of the moment.. getting far far away from those who think are superior to me or think are equal to me.