Investment Goals

I am just listing my investment goals. These will continue to be added or modified upon in a regular basis.

1. Average around 15% annual gains.
2. Beat the S & P 500 by 3-5 percentage points a year.
3. Keep learning & do my own homework.
4. Keep number of open positions small & manageable.
5. Try to find atleast one great investment idea every year.
   
6. Pick stocks with a 3-5 year time horizon.
   
7. Know in detail about every pick. Have specific price targets and stop loss points.
8. Don't be greedy. Take profits regularly.
9. Contribute atleast 10% of my income to my investment portfolio annually.
   

What I plan to do with this blog.

I have been investing in the markets since 2005, and in those years, i have made a few good investments as well as bad ones. But I never really took the time to analyze what went right or wrong in each of those investments. So I going to use this blog as an investment journal to explain my picks, my thoughts on the market as well as the do's and don't that I have learnt so far.

The first set of posts are going to focus on my investment mistakes and missed opportunities and analyze them a little bit. They will then be followed by the successful investments I have made and what went right in those.