Introduction Let’s start with something interesting you have probably noticed yourself around you. You go to bed at night and reach for your phone in the morning to scroll through your social media feeds. You see something funny or an interesting dance move. The next night, you notice that everyone is doing the same thing. […]
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I did not first notice the rise of retail investors in India in any financial report. I noticed it in a tea stall conversation. Two men in their early thirties were discussing something intensely. Not cricket. Not politics. Not petrol prices. They were talking about an IPO. One of them was explaining how many “lots”
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Introduction: Watching the Idea Before the Numbers The basics of the stock market are usually explained with clean diagrams. Boxes and arrows. Buyers and sellers. Demand and supply. But that is not how I first noticed it. I noticed it in conversations. Someone is checking their phone during a family function. Someone casually mentioned, “The
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