Anshu

Anshu

@write2him.bsky.social

Trade and Travel: Options Trader at a Hedge Fund.

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Unpopular opinion: If you make $170,000 a year but still live paycheck to paycheck? You might have a spending problem, not an income problem. ...Do you agree!?

"By owning great companies, you can just forget about all the noise and the irrational market fluctuations—and slowly get rich" - Francois Rochon

You receive tough feedback from physics, math, nature, or occasionally the stock market. If you don't receive feedback from anywhere, it means that thing is deceiving you.

Always strive to develop your talent rather than be loyal to anyone or any company, because what if the person who was once your god changes his faith?

If you’re stuck in a cubicle, your days there are limited. Start exploring a new skill today and open the door to fresh opportunities.

When I engage in stock market trading through options, I exploit time and fear, rarely relying on hope. Essentially, I predominantly sell options and seldom buy them.

"When you have the right approach and are doing the right things, you will see that your knowledge accumulates in the same way the economy grows—it’s a process of compounding.” “Start by learning from the best—listening, studying, and reading.” — Li Lu

"My largest positions aren’t the ones I think I’m going to make the most money from. My largest positions are the ones where I don’t think I’m going to lose money” - Joel Greenblatt

"One of the things we look for in businesses is if you see a business take a lot of adversity and still do well, that tells you something about the underlying strength” - Warren Buffett

In the stock market, people usually buy CE on individual stocks when bullish and hedge with an index PE when bearish. This gives you an idea of the market trend by watching CE skew vs PE skew.

अगर पैसा आये तो कुलबुलाहट नहीं, और अगर जाये तो बौखलाहट नहीं If money comes, there is no restlessness, and if it goes, there is no panic.

"A big takeaway from economic history is that the past wasn’t as good as you remember, the present isn’t as bad as you think, and the future will be better than you anticipate." - Morgan Housel

"There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating." - Peter Lynch

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The stock market and life are both games of odds, not certainties, so always keep some room or buffer for when things are not in your favor. Have enough money set aside to keep life livable even after a loss.

If you want to be a trader or investor, you need to understand human psychology. The more you understand people, the better you become in the stock market. The critical part is understanding how people perceive money and how they respond to risk.

"One person told me,"I have a list of 300 potentially attractive stocks & I constantly track them, waiting for just one of them to get cheap enough to buy." Well, that's a reasonable thing to do. But how many people have that kind of discipline? Not one in 100. - Charlie Munger

*Investing Wisdom:* "I love volatility. Human nature hasn't changed a lot in 25,000 years: Some event will come out of left field and the market will go down, volatility will occur. That presents a great opportunity” - Peter Lynch

*Investing wisdom:* "The beauty of stocks is they sell at silly prices from time to time - and that's how Charlie and I have gotten rich" - Warren Buffett

*Investing wisdom:* "Study successful investors, and you'll notice a common denominator: they are masters of psychology. They can't control the market, but they have complete control over the gray matter between their ears.” - Morgan Housel