Horses for Courses- traderji-investorji.com?

At the CNBC investor camp last week, the fundamental analyst(FA) and Technical ansalyst(TA) speakers were taking veiled potshots at one another. Citing Warren Buffet, one of the speakers tried to scoff at technicals and got a rebuttal when a TA retorted that if fundamentals were everything, why was there such a hue and cry over turnover tax which adversly affected ths short term players. THen another TA settled the issue by stating the main thing was to earn money and each individual should be free to choose his own preference.

I see no conflict betwen the two. Buy and hold(not a full time occupation for non professionals) and while doing that avail of trading opportunities. It is like funds flow statement-short term funds for short term objectives and long term for long term objectives.

Over the last 3-4 months, I have been trying to learn TA and have repeatedly come across how subjective it is and how important it was to pinpoint one's trading style. Today I read that well known investor Benjamin Graham laid the said emphasis for investing..

Goerge Soros, regarded by many as the world’s greatest investor did both investing and trading well.

Even on the metastock company Equis website, it was given that it was rare to come across a short term trader who was not an equally good longterm investor and vice-versa.

In light of all this, I strongly feel that we would have been better of with something like traderji-investorji.com at least in the initial stages to encourage more and more people to participate. There a re a plethora of websites in America imparting investor education.

Here too, we could have articles on value investing, growth investing, CAGR, approach of some of the world’s greatest investors which were mentioned in the CNBC camp.

Despite being an MBA(Finance) and a son of a chartered accountant who has been very successful investor, I don’t know things like Discounted dividends model, projected earnings, PEG being done practically. There is no Indian website which displays them in their ratio analysis.

I read an interesting article on Warren Buffet which stated that till today nobody knows how he calculated the intrinsic value. I think investing too should be made a little more comprehensible and transparent for the common man. In Investments books also it is written that in the stock market there is no such thing as an expert in the true sense.

Taking all this into consideration and the fact that this forum is not tilted towards technicals despite its name, I would recommend an name like traderji-investorji.com.

What's the difference between a trader and an investor?

A trader holds securities for a short period of time.

An investor holds securities for a long time.

Okay, what's the difference between these holding periods?

A short holding period is anywhere from one minute to one year.

A long holding period is anywhere from one year to forever, depending on who you ask.

Actually, the dividing line between a trader and investor isn't fixed (except for purposes of taxation).

Traders pay taxes, investors do not pay any taxes! (No taxes or long term capital gains tax on holding over one year).

I can however have a seperate Catagory for Investors where they can discuss value investing and more in this same forum as it will be easier to manage and more cost effective.

Just give me the catagory heads and sub-heads to start with.

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Traderji

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Nice of you to point out differences. My point was that in the initial stage, more individuals may get interested in this forum. Besides, articles on investing too are interesting.

Give me some time before I come out with the categories. Thanks for being receptive.

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