**SS wanted to be the biggest bull of them all. As the year 2008 began he swore on the first of January that his name will send jitters among the bears in the market. Friends told him, "Be careful" More friends told him, "You have made enough money in the last six months , now get out",Lot more friends said "You can make money only by going with the trend" Some more friends told him, "Do not gamble your ranch on a single trade"
SS was too full of himself. He wanted the market to respect him not the other way around. He gave quotable quotes, "My time has come" "My favorite trading time is for ever" "I will set the tone of the market" Gajini the bear did not like him one bit. He kept watching him closely. In the first week of January he give him a first mild shock. SS did not heed to it. He bought more stocks. His friends warned him, "You are over leveraging" He retorted, " One to fifty is over leveraging? I have not even begun yet" His advisor came to him "We are overbought in the Realty sector" SS gave his all knowing smile, "That is the sunshine sector. DLF will touch 2500, Unitech will hit 1800 by the end of the year. I will make them hit" Gajini smiled as he heard it. Came January second week. "Are you crazy to apply for one crore shares in Reliance IPO. It is overpriced at 300 " His investment banker cautioned him. "Once it hits the market I will take it to 3000 " SS boasted. Gajini was waiting. January third week he gave him a bigger shock. The market hit the circuit filter. SS felt a little dazed. His memory began to go fuzzy. But his spirit was intact. "The bull run is over" his advisor told him. "As long as I am around the bull run is not over. I am the bull and I will run" SS thundered. And immediately ran along side little bro in the Mumbai marathon. His portfolio went on dwindling as the year progressed. "You are forgetting all the rules of trading" his friends cautioned him. "What rules" he shouted in a weaker voice, "I make the rules" Gajini smiled and started shorting the market even more. It was nice to get a bakra like SS. Then came October 2008. SS bought more in the market. Gajini gave him a last big 440 volt jolt. SS lost everything he had including his memory. Gajini had his men pick up SS and they got down to do their job on SS with knives and ink. SS was thrown back into the stock market. But how could he trade? He had lost all his memory. He did not remember the rules of trading. In desperation SS ran to the wash room in NSE and tore his shirt. Then he became happy. Gajini had tattooed all the rules of trading on SS's body. The tattoo on his arm read, "I will not trade against the trend", The one on his stomach read "I will not trade all on a single trade" The biggest tattoo on his chest read, "I will not trade without stop loss" 2009. SS is slowly making progress in his trading. Gajini is slightly on his backfoot and has tattooed on his hand, "I made a mistake in letting the short term memory loss patient go long" Oh Well Aamir did not like this script. He said it is not Oscar material. I reminded him that "Wall Street" won an Oscar for Micheal Douglas. "Main award ke liye kaam nahin kartha" he said and walked out. But not before tattooing "Tu Scrptwriter nahin ban saktha" on my wrist --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""GLOBAL SPECULATORS"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalspeculators?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
