The unrealized profit

My investing journey

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The hunger to know how it works and the truth

It all started with the question that why money behaves differently. Well how the money as we know today came into existence but it was all a faint idea I wanted to chase honestly the real motivation was money. And that's how a 17 year old boy stated to learn how this thing works so one day he can afford everything he wanted like that cool vehicle, that new phone, that ticket to that scene somewhere in the world..

"Stock market satta hai!!" - that one random uncle

It is nearly impossible that one did not hear about the stock market while chasing money and here it was the "world of securities", everything from equity to options and forex and everyone absolutely sold on the idea that you can become a millionaire overnight. I was pretty much fascinated by the idea that I can take money by just making them a shareholder of my firm. But future and options, that was really fascinating for me and I tried but could not understand how I can make money from an instrument which was created as a Risk Management Tool for the equity markets.

Everyone is right and everyone is my friend

Once I started searching YouTube, reading articles and talking to people I was flooded with all types of advice and tips on what to buy and what to sell and by all types of people ranging from the uncle at grocery store to the grandfather of my friend.

But how can I be a 0.00000000001% owner of company that made paint which we used to paint our house

NO I am not that big of a person... Yes this is what I though when the I heard that I can be an owner of a company. But when the dust settled I realized many people are doing that but not my school friends, they have no interests in all of that jazz. Then I learned the concept of broker and CSDL and NSDL and the authorities like SEBI which is a watchdog for the securities markets that operates in India.

That first share

I opened my first Demat account after my father told me that stock market is not good ;) and ignores all the listed service charges and went straight and bought 1 share of TATA Motors and learned what is volume, LTP and all of that red and green things.

Why the hell it is not moving

After I bought my first share I started staring at different parameters of that particular security day and night and after 2 hours of panic that why the share price is not moving at 11 in night I searched and got to know that exchange remains open only between 9:15 AM and 3:30PM. It is all a common knowledge today but I was completely unaware of this at that time.

The big loss

Yes we all lost money while riding that stock you thought will make you a fortune. And like most of the investors and traders out there I also lost money in Yes Bank and boy it was shocking, I wipes out my whole semester fee on that one company and suddenly all of the voices of those random uncles stared flooding my brain that "beta stock market satta hai!!".

5 years of compounding

Its been around five years when I first started chasing money, the motivation has now changed and with the motivation the perspective towards investing and compounding also changed. Over the years I lost hard earned money but one thing which I gained by these experiences is that I got a perspective of what is important and the importance of active income to make investment. Just like money knowledge also compounds and that I believe all of my journey will help me manage and invest my future earnings effectively. So in conclusion all of those events made me a better strategist and added a new lens to my vision of reality.

Hitesh Out!!