Keep Running...

    A novice, and a veteran in the stock market, both would link the word "easy" with "money"; but not in a similar manner. While a novice would like to, and would, link the two words to form "easy to gain money", a veteran would link the same to form "easy to lose money".

    Every novice in the stock market is an optimist, even if he is a pessimist in all other aspects of life. His journey begins with losing something or other. Some lose their movie tickets, dinner plans or vacation trips, and some other bold ones lose their car, house, or even their friend's property. Hovewer, the story is not all sad. In between these loosing sprees, the person will have some wins. These moments have the credibility to get framed as few of the best moments of his life. These wins are the motivating factor to barge deeper into the war field, and under the influence of illogical optimism, lose some more; the strength of motivation stronger than that of what can be achieved by any human resource personnel, manager or a professional motivator. The journey continues with haphazard emotional swings, as rough and unpredictable as the charts of the market themselves.

    After continuously weathering these emotional swings for some time, the person accidentally looks at his bruisses, and if lucky, realizes that the degree of injury was not worth the occasional euphoria moments. These lucky few are still optimists, and they want to find out that one big mistake which  they are sure to have committed but dont know what it is. A phase of research and the quest for the mistake continues; with a sense of gain in knowledge, like what is seen in spiritual gurus during their meditation.

    Finally, some lose their patience and give up the meditation, with the question still open. Few others finally accept that there is no free lunch. The very few remaining ones feel, they have entered the elite list of enlightened souls, with a capability of garnering the goodies more often than inflicting injuries on themselves, or at least on par with. Although, in fact, even they themselves wont be able to really judge, if they are above, on, or below par, until their death; because, the weighing scale might tilt any time. Thus, the sword of uncertainty will always be hanging over their head.