Inve Blog · Topic
Mindset
13 articles on mindset.
Anchoring Bias in Investing: Can't Sell a Loser
Anchoring bias makes you hold a losing stock, waiting to break even. See how buy-price and management-guidance anchors trap Indian investors, and how to escape.
Confirmation Bias in Investing: How You Fool Yourself
Confirmation bias turns stock research into self-agreement. Use Munger's iron prescription to test your thesis, shown on real Indian concalls (Zomato, Adani).
Story Stocks in India: Narrative vs the Numbers
Story stocks like EV, defence and quick commerce move on narrative. Learn to tell a real delivery record from a receding target — using Eternal's own concalls.
Survivorship Bias in Stocks: Why Best-Stock Lists Lie
Survivorship bias makes every 'best stock of the decade' list lie: it shows winners that survived and deletes the look-alikes that went to zero. Avoid the trap.
Averaging Down Stocks: When It Fails, When It Works
Averaging down a falling stock feels like conviction but is often anchoring. Learn when adding to a losing position compounds and when it digs the hole deeper.
Circle of Competence: Own Only What You Understand
Buffett's circle of competence, explained for Indian beginners: why knowing your boundary beats a big circle. A two-sentence Britannia-vs-Bajaj-Finserv test.
The Power of Compounding vs the Cost of Trading
The power of compounding rewards doing nothing well. Churn, F&O, fees and short-term tax are a silent tax that compounds against you — SEBI and Pidilite proof.
How to Evaluate Promoter Integrity in Indian Stocks
In India's promoter-driven market, an honest owner is your first filter. How to read kept-vs-dropped guidance, share pledging, and the Coffee Day collapse.
Margin of Safety: Don't Overpay, Even for a Gem
A great business at a terrible price can pay you nothing for years. Graham's margin of safety, the P/E in one line, and a real HUL example for Indian investors.
Price vs Value: Mr. Market and the Gap That Pays
Stock price and business value aren't the same. In March 2020 the Nifty fell 38% while companies kept earning. Learn to read that gap and stop panic-selling.
SIP and Rupee-Cost Averaging: Why It Beats Timing
SIP and rupee-cost averaging won't maximise returns — they remove the one decision most Indian investors get wrong: when to buy. Here's what they really do.
Temperament in Investing: Why It Beats a High IQ
Why temperament beats IQ in investing: 93% of Indian F&O traders lost money to panic and greed. Learn how behaviour, not brains, decides what you keep.
What You Own When You Buy a Share
A share is a permanent ownership stake in a real business, not a number on a screen. The mindset that separates owners from the 93% of F&O traders who lose.