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The most essential ingredient in trading is an edge.  All successful traders have it and in no way one can succeed in stock markets without this.

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Red Flags in Reliance Industries Q2 FY 2018 Result

While analysts are cheering trying to justify why Reliance Industries stock price should get re-rated, I found the balance sheet which was with the result release to be quite scary. I have encircled the items which seems to be looking not good for the shareholders:

Current Asset to Current Liabilities, which measure the liquidity position of a company stood at 0.58 in Sep 2017 vs 0.62 in March 2017. Any figure which is less than 1 is not very healthy. It is approaching half which in my view is a cause of worry.

Very Low Interest Payout: Non current and current financial liabilities (including trade payable) put together is roughly 3.99 lakh crores while the interest outgo in the second quarter of FY-18 was only 2272 crores which is just 0.57% for 3 months. No body gets loan at less than 2.3% per annum. So the interest outgo is bound to go up very significantly in coming years when the interest capitalization is stopped and the trade payable(> 84000 crores) are paid / reduced.

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How to choose between Fixed Deposits and Equity for investments?

Stocks Vs Fixed Deposits - Which one is better for you?

If your Investment horizon is  less than 3 years, fixed deposits are better investments than equities as cyclicality might create huge volatility in stock prices in short term while if you have surplus that you can set aside for more than 5 years, diversified equity portfolio or Index ETF such as Nifty BeeS are much better choice as per the performance of different asset classes over the last century.