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Long Term Buyer - How To Time Market (My journey)

Almost 12 years ago I started my first step towards equity market via mutual fund. It happened by chance, where in sales representative of bank mentioned about astonishing returns of mutual fund. I was surprised, though rate of return shown was too much to digest so thought of taking chance and started SIP of Rs 1000 for six months. This was the beginning, slowly I started gaining interest in the mutual funds and to the equity market almost 7 years gone. I got impressed with mutual fund returns that was the initial phase later on also started in equity market. 

Journey of equity market was not that easy, during that I learnt a lot and finally understood that long term investment is the only way to build wealth.

Gradually I started investing in fundamentally strong stocks on monthly basis, though I was always wondering if there could be way to get clue about the upcoming trend. Basically I wanted to time the market so that I can buy when market is low and hold on or at least do not buy when market is on the high, ultimate aim was to build high return by buying low and utilize trend to own advantage.

One day I heard about technical analysis on TV there in one expert was providing levels for buying a stock. Wow, this what I was looking for long time, my dream of, combining both fundamental and technical looks like a possibility now. Spent almost 3 months on learning basics of technical analysis and its underlying parameters after that for next 6 months applied these to selected stocks/index tracked these on paper, once I got confident that yes this would work.

Now I was eager to implement in my portfolio, first one was Nifty ETF it worked, my confidence increased  
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