Search blogs  
Browse by category
Author:ravi kanth
Banking & Finance
he would buy monkeys for Rs10.
Tuesday 25th, November 2008

Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for Rs10.
The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them.

The man bought thousands at Rs10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers
stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy at Rs20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started
catching monkeys again.

Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer rate increased to Rs25 and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at Rs50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him.

In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at Rs35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell it to him for Rs50.'
The villagers squeezed up with all their savings and bought all the monkeys.

Then they never saw the man nor his assistant, only monkeys everywhere!!!

Welcome to the 'Stock' Market!!!!!

This is one of the most beautiful mails, related to trading in stocks, it describes the Market

 
Comments
Comment 1: By Joydeep Bhadra on 19th Dec 2008
This is a very old tale...Adi katha...nothing amazing in it...seems like you are the one who chased behind monkeys and lost everything...a loser goes around preaching such things.

Comment 2: By prathaba rutheran on 07th Dec 2008
Wonderfull comment; Let Mr. Manmohan sing read it

Comment 3: By subramaniam chidambaram on 07th Dec 2008
Wonderfull comment ravi...........

Comment 4: By sudhakar batchu on 06th Dec 2008
Yes, trading when done by those with business sense can be a real value. But when people who are lazy (have no busines sense) start trading, it would become gambling!

as we all know, the number of real business men are only few % compared to the number of lazy men in this world.

******dont give the money keys to monkeys ****



Comment 5: By sameer kumar pradhan on 02nd Dec 2008
realy this one is grt

Comment 6: By Ranjeet Jha on 02nd Dec 2008
Good one Ravi

Comment 7: By m rao Chandra Mouli on 01st Dec 2008
Thank You Ravi.

Comment 8: By Ramachandran Nair on 29th Nov 2008
Did I see my face in one of those monkeys sold at Rs.35.00?

Comment 9: By SAM MITTRA on 26th Nov 2008
CAN U READ BETWEEN THE LINES ?

JUST LAUGHING........Laugh everyone Laugh

BANDAR KYA JANE ADRAK KA SWAD

A very famous quotation in hindi

let me try translate this in english...though i m not good at it.
Monkeys cant be made to understand why ginger is good even after its pungent taste and peculiar smell.Humans have understood its benifits and therefore included in his regular diet to keep them healthy...once they felt the real benifits
they became use to its pungent tatse.

Pls correct me if i didnt do right and justifyable translation...this is how I look at this traditional saying.
one needs to read in between the lines even when its not mentioned but with positive thinking.

I just mean positive creative and useful interpretations.

hahahahahahha.....

I just want every one know...there can be humor without creating misceonceptions and stockmarket guys know how to laugh and make others laugh tooo apart from making serious statements those benifit at large.

I just mean positive creative and useful interpretations.

Does it make sense?


Pls let me know

regards

SAM


Comment 10: By VENKATESWARAN CHITTOOR VENKATSUBRAMANIAN on 26th Nov 2008
Ravi

Please forward this mail to the triumvirate of our Economy DrManmohan Singh, Dr.Montek SinghAhuluwalia and P Chidambaram who are making monkeys of ourselves all these times

Comment 11: By SAM MITTRA on 26th Nov 2008
Yesss its nice to laugh it out when market envoirenments help to laugh louders WITHOUT VARIFYING THE FACTS .. . I differ...... Stockmarkets arent for Villagers and Monkeys are not traded there, they are based on companies performence who are doing millions worth of business.... They are meant for people with a apptitude for doing seroious business and ready to work hard to earn money along with creating long term capital assests bit by bit.

Thes above story fits best for people who look at financial/stock markets from the sky and just want make fortune without doing serious efforts.....the only business every one wants enter close to top when News papers journalists start drawing attention....that tempts common man to make a fortune in the shortest times.

Investments in stockmarkets are like any other business but need skills to be aquired before even jumping first time in the sea. The skills need no pre-qualifications....just COMMON SENSE.

People lose money because of their own Greed and lack of knowledge and finally blame Markets of being bad( THE EASIEST WAY TO JUSTIFY ONE'S OWN INABILITY ).

THRUST BLAME ON OTHERS AND YOU WILL BE NEVER GOING WRONG

Pls check my blogs:

http://blogs.siliconindia.com/stockline

one can learn how to earn in stockmarkets even in bad times....IN FACT THE CURRENT TIMES ARE THE BEST TO RESEARCH AND GET IN STOCKMARKETS FOR LONG TERM CAPITAL GAINS.

GOOD OPPORTUNITIES ALWAYS EXIST ....WE JUST NEED TO SPOT THEM AND ACT. Opportuities are more or less depending upon the market sentiment prevailing at a particular time.........THE JUST PRICES CAN NOT BE SEEN WHEN MARKET SENTIMENT IS RUNNING HIGH...

IT TAKES JUST FEW HRS TO LEAN INTRODUCTORY .... BASICS IN FEW DAYS .......ADVANCE IN FEW WEEKS.....PROFESSIONAL IN FEW MONTHS


WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF VIRTUAL ASSETS ....THAT GIVES U REAL MONEY WITHOUT DOING REAL FIELD WORK...JUST CARE FOR FEW PRINCIPLES.
THE MOST FELEXIBLE PART OF THIS BUSINESS IS EVERYTHING CAN BE DONE IN INSTALMENTS.... AT YOUR WISH ...AT YOUR CONVENIENCE...ANY TIME..... ANY WHERE

INVEST SOME TIME BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO INVEST IN STOCKMARKETS

regards

SAM

Comment 12: By Arvind Pal Singh on 26th Nov 2008
i think, it is definetly a bad idea to invest in monkeys, as far as stock market is concerned, i hv seen guys seeing a trap and still going for it becuase of the greed to become rich quickly

Comment 13: By anupama shukla on 26th Nov 2008
its simply superb ravi...u r the best.........................i just dnt hav words to say.........ravi..........

Comment 14: By rajesh jain on 26th Nov 2008
Hi Ravi,

Hats off no words the mails which you share is really awesome, very sensible & humours too.

Comment 15: By anjali sinha on 26th Nov 2008
wow...this one really flored me ...what a great way to explain stock market and how all get taken for ride
anjali sinha

Comment 16: By richa agrawal on 25th Nov 2008
hey this is really true........

Comment 17: By Kishore Rajpurohit on 25th Nov 2008
Excellent one Ravi. Thanks for sharing

Comment 18: By Maryam Hayyat on 25th Nov 2008
hehehe..really nice one.. Stock Market

Comment 19: By sowmya kadiri on 25th Nov 2008
ravi this one is really gr8.............

Post your valuable comment here
Email:      Password:  
Don't have SiliconIndia ID? Sign up      Forgot your Password?  Retrieve

 Latest postings

LOVE and marriage
A student asks a teacher, "What is love?"The teacher said, "in order to answer your question, go to the wheat field and choose the biggest wh... more >>
Know Your Value...!!!
Know Your Value...!!! A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a Rupee 500 note. In the ... more >>
DREADFUL EQUATIONS
DREADFUL EQUATIONS: Human = eat + sleep + work + enjoy Donkey = eat + sleep Therefore, Human = Donkey + work + enjoy Therefore, Hum... more >>
Put a shark in your tank and see how far you can really go!
The Japanese have always loved fresh fish. But the water close to Japan has not held many fish for decades. So to feed the Japanese populati... more >>
PLEASE READ N FORWARD AS MANY PEOPLE IN YOUR CONTACT LIST
PLEASE READ N FORWARD AS MANY PEOPLE IN YOUR CONTACT LIST LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER ... more >>
More postings 1  2  3  4  5  6    next >>

Editors choice

Truth and falsehood
It is strange that the biggest corporate fraud in Indian History ... more >>
By
VENKATESWARAN CHITTOOR VENKATSUBRAMANIAN
India's Enron moment, Satyam does asatya
The irony lies in the name—Satyam, meaning truth. The real tru... more >>
By
Rohit Dabrai
2008 - History would love it!!
2009 is in. As curtains are drawn on 2008, it would go down as on... more >>
By
Jacob Joseph
where the mind is without fear
In the wake of the new terror attacks which split City of Mumbai... more >>
By
Banudas Athreya
Options Trading , My Comments
Looks like people are very much interested in learning about Deri... more >>
By
Manish Chauhan

Guest contributors

Vinod Dham
Vinod Dham
Executive Managing Director, NEA-IndoUS Ventures
Deepak Puri
Deepak Puri
Chairman & Managing Director, Moser Baer
Arun Subramony
Arun Subramony
Vice President - Global Delivery, UST Global.
Raghuram G. Rajan
Raghuram G. Rajan
The author is Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Busine
Robert.H.Chapman
Robert.H.Chapman
Chairman and CEO, Barry-Wehmiller Group.
 Our sponsors