Midcap Stock Carnage: Technical View!

Midcaps stocks were once again butchered today and today's fall was almost a 4% fall in midcap indices.

Several good quality midcaps like HDIL are down 37% this week; others like A2Z maintenance, Tulip are down by 30%; IVRCL, Everonn, Zylog, Crew BOS, SREI are down by 25%; Midfield, Marg, Opto, Logix have fallen by more than 20% each. Just to take a example of huge midcap crash this week.

Several readers have sent in their queries asking if this fall is going to continue. Pls look at the charts below:

Your Questions and our Responses!

Valued Readers keep on writing in and our responses below:

Question: I have 1000 shares @ 58.20 rs. of Finolex cables ltd. and 1000 shares @ 46.15 rs of Spicejet ltd.
What would be the target for next 6 months.Plz reply

Brandhouse Retail: Undervalued gem in Retail segment!

Brandhouse Retail is a undervalued gem in Retail segment, and boasts of premium brands like Reid & Taylor, Carmichael House, Belmonte and Dunhill. The firm is a part of S Kumars group and has more than 800 stores in 90 cities in India. With the opening of Retail segment for FDI, firms like Brandhouse will benefit with better investment at lower costs, better brand portfolio, advanced retail strategies, cutting edge technology and know-how from their global partners.

Your Portfolio analysis and Questions on Mahindra Holidays, GTL Group, Opto, Unitech, and Infrastructure Sector!

Valued readers have sent in these queries:

Question: Please advice on my portfolio given below, which is currently down by almost 11.25%. Due to this I am under tremendous pressure and don't know what to do. How do I handle the below scrip? Please advice/suggest:

· Balrampur Chini 1000 @Rs.67.02/-

· Central Bank 250 @Rs.94.55/-

· Dabur 225 @Rs.131.98/-

· Exide 225 @Rs.149.96/-

· GSFC 350 @Rs.72.70/-

· Geometric Ltd 275 @Rs.111.63/-

· Indoco Remedies 300 @Rs.68.2/-

· Jindal Saw 300 @Rs.130.98/-

· Punjab & Sind Bank 295 @Rs.80.6/-

· Rolta India 555 @Rs.65.94/-

· Zylog Systems 400 @Rs.67.8/-

Total Portfolio Amount (At Purchase) Rs.353000/-. Currently it is at Rs. 314000/- (Down by almost 11.25%). Please give suggestions.

Sensex to cross 50,000 in 2016?

A valued reader asks this very interesting question:

Question: Today i was watching CNBC Awaz and Mr Amit Rathi of Anand Rathi Securities talked in great confidence of Sensex crossing 24k mark in 2014 & forecasted that he saw Sensex at 50-60k in span of 10-15 years from now... Sometime back JP morgan had also forecasted in 2009 that sensex will cross 50k in 9 years..

What do you think on this ? .. also please suggest how to pick specific equities in this case of 10-15 year horizon ??? Should we aim only at index 30 stocks ?

Your questions on L&T, Educomp, Phillips Carbon Black, HCL Infosystems and RCOM!

Valued readers have sent in these queries:

Question: I am holding 250 shares of L&T @ 1640/ share since two months. Now looking at the cmp of it i am bit confused whether to hold it or sell it. please advice

Answer: L&T had a glorious year 2012, where it ran from a bottom of 961 to a peak price of 1721. You seem to have entered the party late and entered close to its recent highs. The scrip is not cheap fundamentally and hence correcting a bit now. It is also seeing lot of brokerage/analyst downgrades, which typically impact retail investor mentality and force him to liquidate in loss.

Your Questions on Den, VIP, Central Bank, Marg, Suven, Prakash Ind, Aban and Others and Our Answers!

Question: Please advice I am looking forward to buy the followings scrips @ current levels:

Punjab & Sindh Bank
DEN Network
VIP
Central Bank
Delta Corp

Your questions and our answers on Cravatex, Prestige Estates, Shree Ashta Vinayak, FCS Software, Austral Coke, Veer Energy and Others.

Valued readers have sent in the following queries:

Question: can you help me regarding two stocks (Cravatex and Foods & Inns)

Can I go ahead and buy or should I wait

Stocks Corner: Your questions and our Answers!

This post is dedicated to my Mom-in-Law who passed away unexpectedly, and left us for a higher and better world. Will miss you forever Ma.

Valued readers have sent in their queries:
Good portfolio, Bad Portfolio

Question: Pl. find herewith an attachment of my current Portfolio. You are requested to pl. advice me to hold or sell it this stocks. For investment which is better option e.g. Mutual Fund or Share market.