Friday, 29 July 2011

Why Did The Stock Exchange Crash And What You Must Do?

By Gunawan Wibisono


If you're a stockholder in the stock exchange, the events of the last couple of days must have caused lots of concern. Remember the black Tuesday of Jan twenty-two when the market plunged by over 11 % during the initial few mins of trade. Twitchy sellers pushed the panic trigger, sending the markets into a free fall, till it hit the circuit breaker, which instantly caused all trading to come to a halt, both, at the BSE and NSE. The thirty stock Sensex lost almost 2273 points throughout the day, before some price purchasing made it recover some losses. Eventually , it ended the day at 16,729.94 points, still down by 875.41 points. The prospects for the share market appears to have changed overnite. Let's have a quick look at the prime factors accountable for such an extreme fall in the markets.

Fears of a recession in the USA.

One of the largest reasons for the industrial strength fall in the markets is a phobia of recession in America economy. The worldwide investment climate has changed with the impact of the sub-prime crisis in America mortgage market taking its toll. Huge investment banks and conglomerates are declaring great losses and investors' confidence is totally shaken. There's a pronouncing that when the US sneezes, the entire world catches influenza. Not surprising that the majority of the economies are having inter-linkages with what has happened there. The after effects are felt in our markets also as the unwanted effect on IT firms, BPOs, KPOs, export orientated units and other sectors are feared ultimately.

Huge selling by FIIs and hedge funds.

Hedge Funds and Foreign Money Establishments ( FIIs ) have also started selling in our markets. This is as they need to reallocate their investments and book profits to chop their losses because of the financial implosion. The volatility of finance markets seen today is the results of continuing and heavy selling pressure by stockholders of all classes due to doubtful times and events.

IPOs drained out liquidity from the system.

Domestic factors also gave to the record fall in no little measure. The first market was inundated by a big number of IPOs. Liquidity was sucked from the market as folk invested in these offerings with expectancies of windfall gains on listing. Dependency Power IPO was oversubscribed by as much as 72 times with stockholders putting in bids for over 1,654.8 crore shares as against 22.8 crore shares offered. As per an estimation, more than Rs sixty thousand crore was locked in the offer by way of application cash, thereby causing liquidity issues in the secondary market.

Do not sweat and stay invested for the long run.

If you're a long-term financier, who has invested in basically strong firms, you shouldn't be worried too much about volatility and unexpected depressions. Remain invested and use the chance to buy at lower levels. There's totally no necessity to press the panic button and start selling amid high volatility.

Someone once asked the investment guru Warren Smorgasboard about when the appropriate time to sell one's stocks is and the answer was 'Never ; if you have quality investment '. Also, if you don't have a serious risk taking capacity, don't try and make a fast buck by making an investment in the so called momentum stocks. They may lose their worth in virtually no time and you'll be holding almost nothing. So be a smart financier and stay invested for the long run.




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