Individual Assignment
Individual Assignment
reasing revenue
and potential of IT sector, one of the Big 4 IT firms in India
Design a portfolio of minimum 15 stocks with a corpus of 1 crore. Justify the reasons of selection of the stocks based
1. Traditional finance method (ideal portfolio)
2. Behavioural finance method (optimum portfolio)
After reviewing your portfolio, justify which stocks in your portfolio you will be selling in loss or booking profits in va
to the behavioural finance portfolio answer:
1. For the above designed portfolio in selecting the stocks any sort of emotions or psychological preferences was con
Ans: Yes. The stocks are selected based on the fundamentals, popularity, recommendations and personal preferences.
2. Suppose you get a new information with respect to the stocks you hold in the portfolio either or a positive or nega
Ans: I will not react immediately rather I would wait and understand the significance of the news before taking any deci
3. Have you selected the stock on the basis of looking at the price action that is 52-week high/low.
Ans: No
4. Have you selected the stock on the basis of first impression or notion which you initially have about the stock? Exp
Ans: I might get attracted to a stock on the basis of the first impression it would create on me but wouldn't invest only b
5. Suppose your stock goes up in next few trading sessions do you feel you should liquidate your position. State the r
Ans: Based on the market conditions if there is a significant increase i would like to book profits by liquidating the stock
6. Have you bought the stock in your portfolio because a well known investor has bought the stock recently.
Ans: Yes
7. How frequently will you churn your portfolio? Do you give more weightage to latest price moves? Based on that do
Ans: I prefer to review my portfolio every 1-2 months and gauge the market conditions. I would make changes to my po
8. Do you have a tendency to hold on to a losing stock for too long and winning for too soon?
Ans: I might wait long to sell a losing stock.
9. Do you have few stocks in your mind which you will select only if it comes to a particular price level? Why so?
Ans: This tendency would be helpful while trading for short term. Unless I am investing for short term I would not wait
10. What will you do if you get dividends from a stock? Will you spend?
Ans: I will prefer reinvesting it most of the times.
11. Suppose a bear market starts, what will you do with your existing portfolio?
Ans: I will avoid being impulsive and will conduct market research thoroughly to predict the future market conditions be
for defensive and less riskier investment options.
12. In your portfolio you claim to be a long term investor(buy/hold) but you trade often on impulse in the same stock
Ans: I try being patient and avoid being impulsive while making any trading decisions.
13. Do you select the stocks from one sector which is doing well as of now and buy all the stocks from that sector in y
Ans: Yes, definitely. I would invest in a stock from a sector which is outperforming but in order to reduce the unsystema
well.
14. Assume that you have got a negative alpha of your portfolio. Give the reasons why did you fail.
Ans: A negative alpha could be because of the underperformance of the portfolio. There could be several reasons reaso
out research before making investment, underdiversification, etc.
15. Have you selected the stock in your portfolio by listening to the media recently and how was the impact of the sa
Ans: I might consider stocks that are suggested by media.
selection of the stocks based on :
n loss or booking profits in various stocks or any other strategy you will adopt to revise your portfolio.With respect
io either or a positive or negative news, how will you react/reset your stock? (Hold on/exit/average)
he news before taking any decision.
k high/low.
ally have about the stock? Explain the reason for the same.
me but wouldn't invest only because of this reason. I would carry out proper research before making an investment.
price moves? Based on that do you decide to make your opinion about the stock?
would make changes to my portfolio as and when required.
soon?
he future market conditions before making any changes to my portfolio. I would try cutting down my losses, would go
how was the impact of the same stock in your portfolio going forward?
respect
estment.
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