Amazing Similarities with Trump and Small Investors

1^st June 2025

Amazing Similarities with Trump and Small Investors

Dear Investors,

Namaste! Today we are dealing with the unique similarities with the US President and the Small Investors. They are so similar that you would not be able to decide – to laugh or to cry. The wisdom from the same – if taken with a learning mindset  – can take you to the top. So, let us start.

Big Goals: -

Trump started the presidential oath taking speech with a commitment to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. Today more that 4 months are over. 130 days or so. The way he is behaving and if he is allowed to behave the same way – AMERICA will NEVER be GREAT in his time for sure. 

Small investors come to the market with a goal to become a NEXT RAKESH or BUFFETT. He talks about long term and patience and things like that. But as soon as his shares move up by Rs.10 or so in the intra-day -he becomes the DAY TRADER. He will buy for the long term and do the trading in the same way. He will buy for TRADING and become a long term investor in the same. Sensex moved up from 100 in 1980 to 83000 in 2025 but small investors are still small. 

So, there is no relationship with their thinking / talking and doing. 

Wrong Field: - 

Trump is an out and out businessman and that too successful businessman. He has come to the POLITICS assuming he will be able to repeat his success here also. In fact, he has failed terribly when you compare against his peers like MODI JI / PUTIN and XI. These three are real politicians and they are doing their role with 100% accuracy. 

Small investors are successful in their JOB / PROFESSION or BUSINESS. They have made money over there and now they want to multiply the same at a faster speed in the share market. So, they come to the market looking at the examples of RAKESH or BUFFETT. But 90% of them don’t have the skill sets and the temperament of seasoned investors. 

Selection of wrong TEAM: - 

Trump, being a businessman, selected the top team of the billionaire to assist him. Now they are also not politicians. They are good business people but bad politicians. See MUSK left the team on Wednesday after spoiling his name for the last 4 months. He created havoc in the government departments and created a bad name for himself. 

Small investors have no mindset to select the team of consultants to help him. He will take the TIP from his broker / fellow travellers in the train or bus / job colleague or his friends. Nowadays they are influenced by influencers. All these sources are also small investors. None of them are seasoned investors themselves. 

SKILL SETS and STRATEGY: - 

TRUMP knows that he doesn’t have the skill sets of seasoned politicians like his peers but he is not ready to develop the same or follow the strategic inputs of the real politicians in his country. He is too egoistic to listen to somebody. The way he is changing his steps everyday – he has made a JOKER of himself in the eyes of the WORLD. He doesn’t understand that there is something like STRATEGY. 

Small investors also know deep down that they don’t have the skill sets to invest. So, they go for TIPS / do call and put and big futures transactions to make fast money. So-called smart small investors are making other mistakes. They invest in MUTUAL FUNDS and SIP. They are brainwashed by vested interest to do the same. I have yet to come across a billionaire by doing the above activities only. But I have known 100s of billionaires by doing investments in long term equities. 

For the same - all they have to do is to spend 3 years – the way they spent in their graduation course  – for learning the investments from proper GURUS but they find 3 years is a very long time. 

24 carat GOLD V/s. 18 carat Diamond Jewellery: - 

If you go to the market – 24 carat gold will be the costliest. What’s more – you can’t use it. It just lies in your bank locker or home safe. Looking at these qualities – some people call them DEAD investments. 

Another form is to buy 18 carat Gold Diamond jewellery. This is cheaper. You can wear it. You can flaunt your wealth in your PARTY or SOCIETY. You can make a show off that you have arrived in your career. I see my small investor friends buy 14 carat jewellery or light weight jewellery for their consumption as the 24 carat prices are hitting the roof.  

Now, when the emergency comes – you can sell your DEAD investment of 24 carat gold without ANY LOSS and deal with the same. Whereas, you will end up losing on making charges / less prices for the gold and diamond as the quality may not be good from day one. 

Modi ji is like 24 carat gold in the area of Politics. He will be remembered for 1000 years for steering India from chaos to clarity. 

Buffett and Rakesh are like 24 carat gold in the area of investments. We must learn the right things to do from these two sources rather than listen to TOM DICK and HARRY. 

MY ADVICE to the INVESTORS who are behaving like TRUMP: -

First Be the TRUMP then become a joker like him. It’s perfectly okay for him as he has made tons of money for his generations. What’s more he is screwing up the USA name / image and wealth and not his own by his own steps. As such he is 78. He has seen a long life. 

But as a small investor – you have to deal with your day today expenses / retirement planning and future family responsibilities. Many of you are not even married. You all have a long way to go. 

Learn the fine art of investments first before you jump. 

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Wish you happy investing. 

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Hitesh Parikh.

Astro-Scientist.