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Recent comments

  • 262 Prashant Purker on Foreign Stocks and Taxation

    Satya I will like to carry further the argument by Sach Truth. I read up the Section 48 which indeed specifies the method of calculation of Capital Gains. However, it DOES NOT specify the currency of calculation to be INR. In fact the section is e ...

    03 Aug 2026
  • 88 pulak giri on Asset Allocation, An Introduction

    Hi Karthik Very inspiring and insightful. I am an NRI non US, non Canada based. I want to invest in gold. As RBI doesnot allow SGB for NRI. So amongst GOLD ETF and GOLD mutual funds which one would be the best option for SIP with a long term outlook ...

    03 Aug 2026
  • 681 Attri De on The Option Greeks (Delta) Part 1

    Hi sir, Shouldn't the table for the approx delta values look something like this............... Option Type Approx Delta value (CE) Approx Delta value (PE) Deep ITM Between + 0.8 to + 1 Between – 0.8 to – 1 ...

    02 Aug 2026
  • 125 Naren on Arbitrage Funds

    Hi Karthik, I have read this entire module and thanks for bringing me into Mutual Fund Investing. I just wanted to ask how can we analyse different Arbitrage Funds and what parameters to compare upon? There are Equity and Debt fund analysis chapter ...

    02 Aug 2026
  • 89 ARUNANGSHU NANDY on Pair Trading logic

    thanks ...

    02 Aug 2026

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