How much time one should allocate daily for Investment Mastery?

 8^th September 2020

How much time one should allocate daily for Investment Mastery?

Dear Fellow Travellers,

Namaste! I often come across the above question. Compared to my Dad’s time in 1970 – where FIAT car was used for 30 long years or more, our child is a 2minute NOODLE generation. We are in between. In short, the current generation’s attention span has reduced drastically. They want something new each moment, they want all and something instant. If it is not instant, they don’t want.

They want to be seen on Facebook / Instagram / WhatsApp / and other social media platforms simultaneously. They have an obsession for SPEED. Obsession for speed without patience is a very dangerous combination for sure shot failure.

Let me share a beautiful story before we deal with the subject.

A Seeker went to a GURU and asked him how much time it will take him to realize the TRUTH. Guru said 3 years.

Seeker said – My father is very old. I want to go home as early as possible. I am ready to work day and night, ready to follow whatever you say, can’t we reduce this time?

Guru Said – In that case, it will take 10 years. Seeker became angry and said – do you understand what I am saying – I want to go home before my father dies. I want to do it as fast as possible.

Guru said – I don’t know about your father. But I am sure at this speed, you will realize the truth when you become as old as your father is now - 70-80 years of age

Seeker said – they let us start with option one. I am ready to wait for 3 years.

Guru said – we can’t start with you. You go back. You have urgency in your mind and with urgency, you can’t get the TRUTH.

What majority of investors want?

The majority of investors want something for nothing. This was beautifully said by Curtis Faith of TURTLE TRADER. He had once said

“In investing and trading, the vast market consists of amateurs….

1.   Who are looking for magical answers to make lots of money quickly and with little risk and very little effort?

2.   They want specific ideas.

3.   They want to be told exactly what to do.

Those looking for such things will not find them. They will not be successful as long as they continue to favour the easy over the truth”.

One must read above – as many as possible. Most guys will fall into the above category.

If you also have the above mentality – then your learning curve will be very long and probably you will never learn the right investment concept in your life.

If you want to learn Investments – you need to understand what – What Market Promises? Once you understand what market promise – we can deal with the learning aspect in terms of time.

What Market Promises?

1. It promises a playing field, not the game. It means you will have to master the game of investments.

2. It promises to reward risk, not proportionately. It means taking more risk does not mean more return and vice versa.

3. It promises opportunity, it does not promise profits. It means you have an opportunity. Profit will come as per the market’s wish or as per your LUCK.

4. It promises a lesson, not learning. It means – you need to learn from your experiences.

5. It promises that the quality of indicators and analysis is proportionate to the number of participants, not quality. In statistics, we call it DATA SIZE. All your indicators must be seen in comparison to the number of participants.

You may not like the above TRUTH of the market but I think it is important that we all are reminded what the market promises us while we invest.

So, unless you have the patience to master the market, you will end up wasting your time and resources.

So, now let us answer the above question.

How much time one should allocate for Investment Mastery?

I have two perspective on the same. GURU perspective and Market perspective. I am not mentioning the Disciple perspective as most of the Disciple the same as mentioned above. However, if you are ready to TRANSFORM yourself – the below given two perspectives will help you.

Guru Perspective: -

If I see from the GURU perspective – I would love to quote a famous chopai of Sant Tulsi Das Ji – who wrote Ramayana.

According to him,

एक घड़ी आधी घड़ी ,आधी की पुनि आध ,

तुलसी संगत साधु  की ,काटे कोटि अपराध।

“Ek Ghadi, Aadhi Ghadi, Aadhi Main Puni Aadh,

Tulsi Sangat Sadhu Ki, Kate Koti Apradh”

Ek Ghadi means 24 minutes. Aadhi Ghadi means 12 minutes and Puni Aadh means – 6 minutes.

You should spend this much time minimum with proper GURU. This is from Guru Perspective.

From Market Perspective: -

One should be in the market minimum for THREE years. The idea is that they see one cycle of Teji and one cycle of Mandi during that time. Unless they have seen both the cycles, they will not understand the market in totality.

So, the conclusion is – one must spend 3 years to see the market in totality and he should spend at least 6 minutes per day with the right GURU.

What Now?

We ask all our clients to be with us for a minimum of 3 years – so that they have the right market perspective and we communicate with them every day for 6 to 24 minutes through our messages. 

If you want to start your journey for investment success – you can take advantage of these facilities.

Happy Learning.

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Hitesh Parikh.