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Learnings from Sensex journey: Line between success, failure is discipline

Dalal Street is where dreams are made and destroyed

BSE, sensex, market, shares, stocks, trading, brokers, investment, investors, growth, results, Q, earnings
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Nilesh Shah
I did my Chartered Accountant articleship at Hamam Street in Mumbai, the lane be hind Jeejeebhoy Towers, three decades back. I could hear the noise from the trading ring many a times in my office. Naturally, the noise and possibility to make quick money attracted me to the stock market.

It was a Wild West with vocabulary like company circle buying, vandho (dispute), payment crisis, galo (gap/difference), patavat (settlement) being part of official lexicon. Might was right. 

Bulls and Bears were making money, while  retail was slaughtered.

Inevitably, I rode a roller coaster ride in my early days in the
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