"Trading without proper learning, understanding, and a well-defined process is not investing or trading.... it's GAMBLING." 🎲 @TheVivekSinghal 🙏

📊 99% of traders either don't have a well-defined strategy or lack the discipline to follow one consistently. 🎯❌ 📈 0.99% of traders do follow a strategy, but they understand only their own approach and often assume that other approaches cannot work. 🔨👀 🧠 Only 0.01% of traders (like @TheVivekSinghal sir) recognize that markets offer multiple paths to success. They understand different trading and investing styles, their underlying logic, strengths, limitations, and the conditions under which each can work. 📚⚖️ 🎯 They also understand that no single approach is universally superior. Different approaches suit different temperaments, personalities, risk appetites, goals, and life circumstances. 👤📈🏡

📌 Who Should Use a Stop-Loss? 🤔📉 1️⃣ If you pick stocks primarily based on price action, chart patterns, and momentum 📊🚀, your thesis is invalidated when the price behaves differently from what you expected. In such cases, a price-based stop-loss is an essential risk-management tool. 📉⚠️🛡️ 2️⃣ If you pick stocks primarily based on business quality, valuation, and a medium-to-long-term investment thesis 🏢📈💰, short-term price volatility 📊🔄 does not necessarily invalidate the thesis. With disciplined position sizing (e.g., 2–3% of capital per position) 🎯📏, not using a price-based stop-loss can be a reasonable approach, provided the business thesis remains intact. 🧠✅📈 💡 The usefulness of a stop-loss depends on the strategy being followed. Applying the same rule across different approaches, time horizons ⏳, and position-sizing frameworks 📏💼 can create more confusion than clarity. 🤷‍♂️🌫️ 🎯 Every risk-management rule should be evaluated within the context of the strategy it is meant to serve. A student of @TheVivekSinghal sir 🙏📚

My biggest allocation (around 5% of the portfolio) is now on the "mattress" 🛏️ I can "sleep well" 😴 with it all the way until it becomes a 2x... or even a 3x 📈🚀 This is my first-ever stock picked inspired by the 3x-3y strategy taught by @TheVivekSinghal sir 🎯📚 Let's see how the journey unfolds! 🤞📊✨

Query: Where did @TheVivekSinghal sir go wrong in suggesting Rajesh Exports? 🤔 My Response 👇👇 Before responding to the above query, let me first summarize some of the core lessons taught by Vivek Sir in his online classes, which are freely available on his YouTube channel 👇 🔹 As retail investors, we generally have to rely on audited financial statements and balance sheets certified by CAs. 📊 🔹 Even if a company clears all the parameters of a good business, frauds can still happen. Cases like Satyam have shown that not everything can be detected in advance. ⚠️ 🔹 Retail investors are usually not capable of consistently detecting frauds early. In the stock market, unexpected things can happen to any particular business. 📉 To address these realities, Sir has always emphasized risk management: ✅ Never deploy more than 3% of total capital in a single trade, irrespective of how high your conviction may be. 🎯 ✅ Average up or take a second entry only when either the valuation becomes more attractive or the financial/business performance has improved since the first purchase. 📈 The foundation of the approach itself acknowledges that any stock can fail, even go to zero. The objective is to ensure that such an event does not derail your long-term compounding journey. 🌱 As I am still relatively new to the market and my understanding of businesses is evolving, I have reduced this limit further and generally deploy only 1–2% of capital per trade. 🙏 I am comfortable tracking stocks, maintaining watchlists, monitoring quarterly results, maintaining a detailed trading ledger, and evaluating portfolio performance. Because of this, I am also comfortable managing a portfolio of 50–60 stocks. 📋📈 I have often stated that I follow an approach where the boom 🚀 or doom 💥 of any single stock should neither make nor break my portfolio. Therefore, when people ask, "Where did Vivek Sir go wrong in suggesting Rajesh Exports?" 🤷‍♂️ My mind goes in a different direction. I wonder, "Where did investors go wrong if a single trade was capable of causing serious injury to their overall portfolio?" 🤔 A stock going wrong is always a possibility. In my view, a portfolio suffering serious damage because of just one or two stocks is often a position-sizing problem 📌, not merely a question of stock selection criteria.

My story of Rajesh Export: I took a trade in Rajesh Export in 2023 with ₹40k, which was around 3% of my portfolio at that time 📊. I have shared earlier that I had lost conviction in Rajesh Export long ago. Since I do not average down or take a second trade in a stock without personal conviction, I never added more shares of Rajesh Export 🚫. Today, the position is down nearly 75% 📉, reducing its value to around ₹10k. At the same time, my portfolio has grown substantially through deployment of regular monthly savings 💰 and appreciation in my other holdings 📈. As a result, Rajesh Export now constitutes only about 0.17% of my current portfolio. So, if I say that I will continue holding Rajesh Exports and watch its complete journey till the very end 👀, I hope that doesn't sound completely irrational or nonsensical to you 😄. @TheVivekSinghal 🙏

Over last two months since 31st March 2026 📈 🔹 Smallcap Index: 18.5% 🚀 🔹 Midcap Index: 14.5% 🚀 🔹 My Portfolio: 21% as on today 🚀 If I was not in panic mode two months back, then what exactly is the new concern now? 🤔 In fact, I am much more relaxed now than I was three months ago 😌 Please see this too 👇 x.com/i/status/2054241525136… @TheVivekSinghal 🙏

Fall in love ❤️ with some activity 🎯, and do it! 🚀 Nobody ever figures out what life is all about 🌍, and it doesn’t matter 😌. Work as hard 💪 and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best 🌟. Keep up some kind of a minimum ⚖️ with other things so that society 🏙️ doesn’t stop 🚫 you from doing anything at all ✨.” — Richard Feynman

“Ab toh market girne wala hi hai 📉😨 Chalo abhi portfolio bech dete hain… baad mein neeche ke levels par dubara kharid lenge 🎯📊” Dear Friends 🙏 Honestly, thoughts like these don’t even cross my mind 😄🤪 As a core principle of my approach inspired by @TheVivekSinghal sir, I am perfectly comfortable if my portfolio falls along with the overall market 📉🙂 For me, wealth creation is less about predicting every market move, and more about staying consistent with strategy, patience, and discipline 🧠⏳🔥

Core principles of the trading approach of @TheVivekSinghal sir 📈🧠⚡ 1️⃣ Find great businesses: Debt-free profitable businesses with 10–15 years of historical performance 📊 and 10–15 years of future growth prospects 🚀 Note: Vivek sir has described six criteria for stock selection in his online classes freely available on his YouTube channel. 2️⃣ Prepare a list of stocks of these great businesses 📝 and trade only in these selected stocks 🎯 3️⃣ Trade (buy & sell) in these stocks based on 3–4 backtested technical strategies 📉📈⚙️ Note: Vivek sir has taught 10-12 strategies in his online classes. You can choose any 3-4 strategies as per your liking. 4️⃣ Track these stock lists regularly 🔍 for financial performance (in screener.in) 📑 and for buying opportunities based on technical strategies ( in TradingView) 📊 5️⃣ Max 3% allocation in one trade ⚖️ and max 2 trades in a single stock at a time 🚦 6️⃣ Record all open & closed trades in Google Sheets 📒🧾 7️⃣ Keep trading based on preset rules of the approach 🔄 It's just like running a grocery or medical shop 🏪💼 systematic, disciplined, and process-driven ⚡ Above is the core framework of Vivek sir’s trading approach 🧠📈 There is a lot of scope for modifications and customization in the details of this approach 🔧✨ On whatever point in this approach you feel discomfort ⚠️, put efforts into understanding that point deeply 📚🧠 Learn about that point from multiple sources 🔍, and after proper understanding, suitably modify the point to remove your discomfort ✨ The purpose is to make the trading approach so easy, smooth, and sustainable 🌱 that you can continue with it for a very long period.... for the rest of your life ⏳📈 ..... even while going through ups and downs in other aspects of life 🌊⚖️ @TheVivekSinghal 🙏🙏

💡 Bro Tip: If stock trading is just a side activity for you while working full-time, don’t follow the daily commentaries of full-time active traders on Twitter. 📉📊 Their mindset, risk appetite, and time commitment are completely different from yours. ⏳⚡ Trade according to your own lifestyle, goals, and peace of mind. 🧠💰

What still surprises me is that despite witnessing so many uncertain outcomes and events in life, I never truly understood the fundamentally uncertain nature of life itself. 🤔⏳ It was the markets 📉📈 that finally taught me one of the deepest truths of human existence: uncertainty is not an exception in life; it is its very nature. 🌍🎭 Those who understand the uncertain nature of life and markets, and continuously prepare themselves for uncertainties, tend to live with greater peace 🧘‍♂️✨ and prosper with greater resilience. 💪📈💰 @TheVivekSinghal 🙏

In about last 23 trading days, smallcaps index rallyed nearly 23% 📊🔥. Midcap index has also given similar rally. So a correction from here is completely normal and healthy ✅📉 irrespective of whatever news is being linked to it 📰🎭 Dear Friends.....many people will make you feel again and again that the world is ending… 🌍⚠️😨📉 But remember ☝️... for each of us, the world ends only once, the day we die. ⚰️⏳ Until then, life goes on 🌅, opportunities return 🔄💰, and markets recover 📉➡️📈🚀💫