Gibu Kurian Mathew
Well if you ask me why I have this blog with my name in the title, then its for the search bots to make sure people who search for me, find me. I have a long list of lost friends from back in the 80s. I hope those guys search me out ! Well I have tried with not much success.
1)Well my history has quite a few friends from Junior School, KWT.
2)St Mary Central School, Thiruvalla Some names : >
3) St Berkman's College - SB College Chengnacherry, Kerala :
4) Karunya Institute of Tech
5) InPractice Technologies, Chennai
6) Now AdventNet, Chennai
Guys it sure would have been nice to get in touch :-)
Well what triggered this post : I got a mail to my office ID from a long lost friend Aanand Vasudevan !
Some other spellings for the bot : Gibu K Mathew or even Gibu Kurian Matthew. Jibu
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Stock Market Crash
We witnessed the biggest ever stock market crash in Indian stock market history in the last 7 days. Starting May 18 through May 22.
May 18 Sensex losses 826 points
May 19 Sensex loses 453 points !
Here is what I did. I invested in 6 mutual funds during this time. I invested 35% of the funds I had for investing into 3 mutual funds on May 19. I exited one stock SAIL (at a profit though) and moved that money into another 3 mutual funds. Well I would say donot panic sell. There is no need. I jut thought it was ok to sell SAIL.
Well my preferred fund houses are Templeton, Sundaram and Reliance in order of preference. I would compare this mode of investing on different days of a crash like an SIP :-) I am already invested in some of these funds via a monthly SIP. But the fact that these funds like many others wiped out all the gains to levels 3 months back got me thinking , Why not do a SIP kind of stuff during a crash too. Yes there is an entry load but still I think it is a good bet. I was expecting the markets to recover on May 19. But it furthur tanked ! Hence the only option was waiting for the initial upward trend or stability and then going for another round of invetment.
I guess this is a less risk prone strategy of investing in stocks. I know it makes me look like a scared puppy in front of the bears and bulls. Who cares about machoism I just want to ensure my hard earned money works hard for me and I get it back.
Well I am no pro in investing, but I have a strong feeling that this is a good strategy (esp. for those busy people) to use if you have the money in hand during a crash.
Some of my preferred websites to track the stock market are : www.equitymaster.com and hdfcsec.com. The login version in equitymaster.com terrific especially if you want to do trend analysis etc.
May 18 Sensex losses 826 points
May 19 Sensex loses 453 points !
Here is what I did. I invested in 6 mutual funds during this time. I invested 35% of the funds I had for investing into 3 mutual funds on May 19. I exited one stock SAIL (at a profit though) and moved that money into another 3 mutual funds. Well I would say donot panic sell. There is no need. I jut thought it was ok to sell SAIL.
Well my preferred fund houses are Templeton, Sundaram and Reliance in order of preference. I would compare this mode of investing on different days of a crash like an SIP :-) I am already invested in some of these funds via a monthly SIP. But the fact that these funds like many others wiped out all the gains to levels 3 months back got me thinking , Why not do a SIP kind of stuff during a crash too. Yes there is an entry load but still I think it is a good bet. I was expecting the markets to recover on May 19. But it furthur tanked ! Hence the only option was waiting for the initial upward trend or stability and then going for another round of invetment.
I guess this is a less risk prone strategy of investing in stocks. I know it makes me look like a scared puppy in front of the bears and bulls. Who cares about machoism I just want to ensure my hard earned money works hard for me and I get it back.
Well I am no pro in investing, but I have a strong feeling that this is a good strategy (esp. for those busy people) to use if you have the money in hand during a crash.
Some of my preferred websites to track the stock market are : www.equitymaster.com and hdfcsec.com. The login version in equitymaster.com terrific especially if you want to do trend analysis etc.
Friday, May 12, 2006
Website Monitoring - Site24x7
Here is a new website monitoring service - Site24x7. You can monitor your personal websites or corporate websites. The free version will allow you to monitor one website. Its currently in beta though.
Try it out and send your feedback!
Try it out and send your feedback!
In Vegas
I was in Las Vegas last week for the N+I tradeshow. The tradeshow went well. Its my second trip for Interop. I was there same time last year. I had other friends from office along.
This time the show had lesser visitors but we did have more fun :-) We took the Singapore > Tokyo > LA > LV route. Solid 22 hours of flying, not to say the one our wait at the immigration and security checks in US airports now.
Our return trip had a 2 hour city tour of Singapore. Well Changi airport Singapore rocks!
This time the show had lesser visitors but we did have more fun :-) We took the Singapore > Tokyo > LA > LV route. Solid 22 hours of flying, not to say the one our wait at the immigration and security checks in US airports now.
Our return trip had a 2 hour city tour of Singapore. Well Changi airport Singapore rocks!
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