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Market Insights

Short, opinionated notes on how the Indian market actually behaves — not stock tips, not predictions. If we ever start sounding like either, tell us.

‘Buy the dip’ isn't a strategy. It's a hope wearing a strategy's clothes.

Every dip looks like an opportunity in hindsight. Very few look like one in the moment — and that difference is the entire problem.

The one-hour Diwali session is a tradition worth understanding — and a terrible sample size to draw any conclusion from.

The daily net figure gets treated like a verdict. It's one data point in a much noisier, longer series.

A stock hitting a surveillance list isn't automatically a red flag or automatically nothing to worry about. Here's what the stages actually mean.