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Fundas : Financial Shenanigans Part 4: Key Metric Shenanigans

In our earlier posts we had written about how companies manipulate revenues and expenses to boost earnings, we had also spoken about how cash flows – ...
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Fundas : Financial Shenanigans Part 3: Manipulating Cash Flows

In this post we look at how company’s can manage the cash flow statements and hide the true economic picture of the company. The Financial Shenanigans ...
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Fundas : Financial Shenanigans Part 2: Manipulating Expenses

In the first part of this series, we wrote about how companies could manipulate earnings. We continue here with examples on how companies manipulate ...
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Fundas : Financial Shenanigans Part 1: Manipulating Revenues

This is a quick note to the shady promoter community. If you’re looking to hoodwink the public investors then this series is for you. It will help you ...
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Your Emergency Fund – Make Hay While the Sun Shines, But When It Doesn’t….

Life looks funny in hindsight. Our younger self in that life looks hilarious, all worried and anxious about how a bad situation would ever be overcome! ...
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The Volatility Brings Hope For The Broad Market

Budgets generally appease one set of people while ticking off another set – this is also called Balancing the Budget. This budget though seems to have pissed ...
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Concepts: Developing a Quantitative Trading Strategy – The Foundation (Part 2)

Developing a investing strategy is probably the most important aspect of investing in securities. In this post, Prashant Krish discusses the different kinds of ...
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Concepts: Developing a Quantitative Trading Strategy – A Curtain Raiser (Part 1)

This is the first in a series of articles that detail out how you can build your own quantitative investment or algo trading ...
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Beware of the Tracking Error

The first index to represent Indian stocks was the Bombay Stock Exchange’s SENSEX created in 1986, the first Index fund was launched by IDBI – IDBI ...
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Nifty Small Cap Index is massively down. Should You Buy?

The Nifty Small Cap Index is down 40% from its peak, the Nifty Mid Cap Index is down 25% from its peak while Nifty 50 is down just 8% from the peak. In terms ...
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