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Stock market investor? Here are a few tips for making timely exit

In certain sectors, a sound strategy would be to exit the stock when there is overall good news about the company

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Sunil Damania
In the Mahabharata, Abhimanyu, son of Arjun, knew how to enter the chakravyuha but was not aware of how to exit it. This cost him his life. Many stock market investors are like Abhimanyu. They know how to enter a stock, but fail miserably when it comes to exiting. Unless investors get both their entry and exit strategies right, even if they buy a scrip at the right level, chances are they will not make money from it. Ask investors who bought Vakrangee, P C Jewellers, or Manpasand Beverages. All these stocks had moved up substantially, but investors who did

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