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Weekly Recap: Opiate for the masses

nifty heatmap

The Nify rallied +3.20% (3.62% in USD) as investors chose to ignore the gloom-and-doom surrounding realty and focused on the positives in IT.

Index Performance

index performance

Top winners and losers

ADANIENT +10.79%
RANBAXY +10.80%
DLF +11.06%
COALINDIA -8.87%
GODREJCP -5.49%
HINDALCO -3.22%
It appears that recovery trade is getting underway…

ETFs

BANKBEES +3.79%
PSUBNKBEES +3.70%
JUNIORBEES +3.25%
NIFTYBEES +3.12%
INFRABEES +2.91%
GOLDBEES +0.63%
Bank ETFs rallied and it looks like PSU banks are turning the corner – thanks to Prof. Rajan…

Advancers and Decliners

advancers and decliners

Yield Curve

Yields are down on the back of internationalization efforts of the RBI. Although much work needs to done, the markets seem to be giving RBI the benefit of the doubt…

yield curve

Interbank Rates

… and banks are lending freely to each other, as evidenced by the falling MIBOR rates.

interbank rates

Sector Performance

sector performance

Thought for the Weekend

Does social media keep people confused, misled and doped up? Social media keeps us engaged in the activities of semi-imaginary role playing and distracts us from events and action in the real world. As long as we’re busy pretending to be cool or acting outraged online, we won’t be fully present or even really care about legitimate problems. In giving us a chimerical outlet to speak our minds, get distracted playing a role in a game, and get our fix of dopamine, social media is the perfect opiate for keeping the masses deluded and powerless.

Source: The perfect opiate for the masses

Fundamental Quantitative Scores for Stocks

We are big fans of quantitative investment strategies, here at StockViz. The primary reason driving our obsession is that they work! They work because they impose discipline and gives us a framework to measure risk-adjusted returns. As a sign of our unwavering focus for providing our clients with an investment edge, we are now making our Fundamental Quantitative Scores for Stocks accessible to our trading/demat clients.

Fundamental Quantitative Scores rank each stock based on a single metric: for example, Return on Capital (ROC), Leverage, Total Accruals To Total Assets, etc. These ranks provide a snapshot of how the company is doing vs. all the other investment options out there.

Here’s a screenshot for Glenmark:

quantitative fundamental scores for glenmark

A couple of these metrics (Earnings Yield and Book to Market) are price based (and hence the blue highlight). The scores also indicate the total number of stocks that were analyzed on that metric. For example, Glenmark is ranked 748 out of 957 on Sales Growth Index. We’ll be discussing each of these metrics over the next couple of weeks.

 

Related:

Machine Learning Stocks
Quantitative Value Series
StockViz Trading/demat Account

Mera Bharat Mahan?

Good monsoons and election spending is apparently going to boost rural consumption in the medium term. The guys at UBS and Deutsche Bank put together a bunch of stocks that would benefit from rural growth and published it on ET.

We created a Theme that tracks this portfolio. So dood-ka-dood, pani-ka-pani.

Check out the Theme here: “Betting on Bharat October-2013

Previously: Prabhudas Lilladher Midcap 10-Sept-2013

 

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Making your portfolio more efficient

We spend way too much time picking stocks and too little time figuring out how to allocate our capital between them. Even if you end up picking the “right” stocks, poor allocation will drag down the performance of your portfolio.

For the first time in India, you can now find out the appropriate weights that individual stocks should have within your portfolio and constantly monitor your portfolio as the market changes – automatically.

Users who have uploaded their portfolio can have a look at these statistics under the “Analytics” section:

efficient portfolio analysis

And if you just want to upload an adhoc set of stocks and just see what the most efficient allocation is, you can do that using our Marko tool, named after Harry Markowitz who introduced Modern Portfolio Theory.

Be efficient, be smart!

 

Weekly Recap: Time is not money

nifty performance heatmap

The market opened October with a bang, rallying 3% (+5.3% in USD terms).

Index Performance

Pretty much everything except FMCG ended in green.

index performance

Top Winners and Losers

YESBANK +9.74%
SAIL +10.21%
BANKINDIA +10.48%
APOLLOHOSP -4.91%
HINDUNILVR -3.30%
NTPC -3.29%
SAIL away…

ETFs

BANKBEES +5.00%
PSUBNKBEES +2.83%
NIFTYBEES +2.61%
INFRABEES +2.52%
JUNIORBEES +1.12%
GOLDBEES -1.88%
Banks staged an impressive rally…

Advancers and Decliners

advancers and decliners

Yield Curve

The curve seems to be normalizing…

india yield curve chart

Interbank Rates

… and so are interbank lending rates.

mibor

Sector Performance

sector performance

Thought for the weekend

Thinking about time has the opposite effect on people from thinking about money. It makes them more honest than normal, rather than less so. Moreover, the more reflective they are, the more honest they become.

Source: Time is not money