Randomwalk

Option Trading is both a science and art. Options give you a way to perfectly play your market view which is not possible with future or cash position. I will start publishing weekly strategies with risk and reward for each of them. Before starting that it’s essential to lay down the background of options and … Read more

US Market is a case study in itself. Great Depression-era levels of unemployment. An economy in downward spiral. More than 100,000 dead from a killer virus. Cities in flames amid widespread civil unrest. And a stock market that marches ever higher. The recent U.S. market turmoil from the coronavirus pandemic feels like eons ago. The S&P 500 cratered … Read more

People these days are suffering from hobson’s choice when it comes to liquidity. Put everything in saving account ! With the liquid funds yields going down to 4-5% there is not much incentive in taking any incremental risk. For the past few months I have been exploring some of the options which can deliver higher … Read more

Another month of uncertainty of Lockdown and now people have struggling with their existing portfolio as lot of Debt Funds closed down and saving bank rates have been lowered as banks are no longer looking to borrow from the public. I will cover the performance of various investments and the strategy going forward. This month … Read more

Lot of people ask me how can they Invest/Trade Bitcoin in India in the most efficient manner.I have compared few platforms for Bitcoin Investment.Before that I will like to explore the rationale behind bitcoin investing! Bitcoin is on the other end of investment spectrum compared to FD,where you can make 1000% returns or you can … Read more

Is there a mid-point where we can get a decent yield at reasonably low risk? The solution is corporate bonds. Until now it was very difficult for retail investors to buy corporate bonds from the exchange due to less liquidity. Treasury and HNI are able to buy these from their brokers. It’s better to choose … Read more

Lot of people are wondering which assets to buy in a market which is uncertain about future prospects.An easy way to determine is to weigh the upside vs downside from the current level and determine if the risk is worth taking. Some of the best opportunities come out when people are selling in panic.In Public … Read more

As we navigate the murky waters of the coronavirus pandemic, the world seems to have entered uncertain times. And those deepening worries are reflected in fluctuating markets worldwide as the Black Swan event of 2020. Even as India so far has remained relatively less scarred from the COVID 19 virus compared to some other countries, … Read more

CLOs originated in the late 1980s, similar to other types of securitizations, as a way for banks to package leveraged loans together to provide investors with an investment vehicle with varied degrees of risk and return to best suit their investment objectives. A CLO is a type of structured credit. Structured credit is a fixed-income … Read more

Market haven’t been crazier than now since 2008. Uncertainty, fear and paranoia has gripped people and panic selling of stock has been rampant. Investors have been fed nothing but copious amounts of volatility in the past few weeks. One interesting trade people can do now is to bet on volatility to go down. The signal … Read more