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I help busy professionals earn their first dollar in the stock market — peacefully. No hype. Rules-based. Weekend process.

Author, Peaceful Weekend Investing | Ex-Nasdaq | SEBI RA

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Disc # All messages/posts are for educational purpose only.

08/09/2026

A stock falls for a long time. Then it stops falling.

It goes sideways, flat, for six months — sometimes ten years. Volume dries up. The news stops. Nobody is excited, nobody is angry.

That is the quiet event you should be watching. Every seller who wants out is out. The stock has moved to strong hands — patient money taking it from impatient hands.

"It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting." — Jesse Livermore, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

But a base is not a buy signal. Boring can outlast your patience.

Flat six months near the lows on quiet volume goes on the watchlist. Draw the line across the ceiling. Do nothing until price breaks it on heavy volume.

Educational purposes only. Do your own research.

08/09/2026

I bought the right stock. And still lost money. Here is why.

You are following the series. You did the homework on Saturday, found a great stock on the weekly
chart, the 10 and 30 week lines, all three conditions passed. Now nobody asks the simple,
fundamental question: how much do you buy, and what is your plan?

Most people say all of it. I am so excited. Whole amount, one click, one price, just buy. Did that
happen to you? You found the right stock and on that week you went all in. That is not a mistake
of the stock market. It is normal. Everybody does it. The question is, you do not have a plan.

Say a stock is at 100 and you put in 30,000, whatever the currency, on Monday. By Wednesday the
stock is 92. Nothing changed in the company in one day, but the price dropped. That is normal. Now
you are 8% under the water, but the stock you picked was right.

Here is the part people miss completely. Never buy your whole position at once. I buy in tranches,
three or four. Piece one goes in when everything meets, very precisely, and it is some money, not
all. Once it starts moving in my direction, I add at a precise point. Once it is a couple of weeks
ahead and still working, I add more, until the full allocation is in. It has worked for me. Try it.
Three or four pieces gives you peace. Never buy at one go. That was a mistake I was making earlier.

Sizing matters too. If you are not putting in the right size, the needle will not move for your
portfolio. You need to know what risk you are carrying at any point. Averaging up, not down, is
what you should be committing to.

Three steps, every time. Decide the full amount you want to buy from your portfolio allocation.
Split it into three or four pieces. Never buy all in one go. Be patient. Boring is the key word.

Comment PIECES and I will send you the 1 page 3-piece buy plan.

Day 64 of 100. Education only, do your own research.

07/09/2026

You do not lose money on bad stocks. You lose money skipping step number one.

There is a Japanese idea called shu-ha-ri. Three steps, in order, no shortcut.

Shu - learn the rules. Not your version. The actual rules, followed completely.
Ha - break the rules. Once you understand why they exist, you earn the right to bend them.
Ri - transcend them. They live inside you. You stop thinking about them.

Most investors skip straight to ri. One book, three YouTube videos, then their own indicator. And they wonder why they keep losing.

"We remain faithful to these forms with no deviation." - Endo Seishiro shihan, on shu

Burj Khalifa was not built by someone who skipped engineering school. Your portfolio cannot be built by someone who skipped step one.

Which stage are you on?

Educational purposes only. Do your own research.

07/09/2026

"It has come down enough." Can you name the thing that proved it?

Most people do not have an entry system. They have a mood. A mood sounds like this: the stock has
come down enough, it feels like the bottom, it is due to take the next rally. Due is not a thing.
A feeling is not a signal.

A trigger is different. A trigger either happened or it did not happen. You cannot be a predictor;
you need certainty, and you need to be able to point at it on the screen.

Here is my system, and it is small. A weekly chart. A 10 week line. A 30 week line. Moving
averages, that is all. Then three conditions. One, price above both lines — both of them, not one,
because you cannot go far wrong with that. Two, price close to the lines, one over the other, so I
am not chasing it up. Three, the 10 week has crossed above the 30 week, and recently — in the last
10 weeks, not two years ago. All three, or I do not really look at the stock. Not two out of three.
All three.

Here is the part that actually matters. Those three conditions are not there to find winners, and
they are not there to make you take a buy decision straight away. They are mainly there to put a
stock on your watch list. Because when I sit down with the charts at nine at night, I am not the
best version of myself — I am tired, and nobody makes that decision well at that moment. The list
does not get you excited, and that is exactly the point. You have to have a process that is as dumb
as possible.

Three things to do this week. Write your entry conditions down as conditions, rather than as they
happen to you. Take the last stock you bought, run it through, and see how many conditions it
actually met — then put it in the comments, and be honest. And if it would have failed the test,
that is the most useful thing you have learned this month.

Day 63 of 100. Education only — do your own research.

06/09/2026

Two hours a week. Saturday morning, coffee, done before lunch - then I do not open it again until next Saturday.

Daily checking is not research. It is anxiety with a chart.

The two hours, in order:

20 min - the weather. Is the overall market healthy? No single stock until that is answered.
20 min - the filter. The screener cuts a thousand names to a handful. Machine's job, not mine.
40 min - the charts. One at a time, 30 seconds each. I am an hour in before I have an opinion.
20 min - write it down. What would I buy, at what price, why. On paper, before money moves.
20 min - alerts. Holdings first, then the new ones.

The order matters more than the hours.

"The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting." - Charlie Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack

Save this for next Saturday.

Educational purposes only. Do your own research.

06/09/2026

If you are making investing and trading decisions with no process — just off a gut feeling — this
one is for you.

I have six checks and they come every Saturday. A twenty minute block to go through six steps.
Very boring. It is not an apology, it is by design, because the alternative is a fresh decision
taken in the heat of the moment off a headline, a friend, a tip, or whatever a group is saying.
That is not a list. That is noise.

Here is the list, and I repeat it in video after video on purpose. One, market breadth — how many
stocks are above the 30 week line. Two, the sector the company sits in, and whether that group is
trending up as well. Three, the weekly chart with two moving averages on it, and whether both are
trending up. Four, one sentence — can I write down what I am buying and what the company does.
Five, the size, because the size changes your game. Six, the hard one, doing nothing.

Most Saturdays I go through the whole process, look at what I already hold, find that nothing else
really qualifies, and do nothing. Doing nothing is not a bad outcome. It is also an outcome, and it
belongs in the strategy.

Three steps for this weekend. Write the entire process down on paper and stick it on the wall where
you will look at it every week. Put the same appointment in your diary, every week, as a peaceful
weekend investor. Then go through the list week over week over week and watch what it does to the
way you decide.

Day 62 of 100. Education only — no buy or sell recommendation.

05/09/2026

Trend is your friend. Everyone says it. Nobody can define it.

Say it out loud right now: what is an uptrend?

If the answer was "it's going up", that is a description. And you cannot act on a description. Going up since when? Since Monday, since March, since 2019?

A trend you cannot define is just a mood. A mood changes at exactly the wrong moment, usually right after you buy.

Your edge is one rule you can repeat.

Two questions:

1. Is this a higher high than the last one? Higher highs, higher lows, yes or no?
2. Is the price above the 30 week line, and is that line rising?

Two yeses, likely an uptrend. Not a feeling. Ten seconds, any chart, any market.

No recommendation to buy or sell. Educational purposes only. Do your own research.

05/09/2026

The market is open five days a week. I am not.

I have a job and chores, and so do you. Yet the advice everybody gives is to watch the open, check
the news, check the macros, check the fundamentals, and follow it closely. When, exactly? Between
meetings?

So I stopped watching and set alerts instead.

Here is what people get wrong. An alert is not a reminder. It is a decision you already made,
handed to a machine to watch for you — your entry price, your exit price, the level where you add
more. You already decided those. So you do not sit and wait for the price. You tell the app to
tell you.

Two rules make it work. One alert per stock, not five — at that level I have already written down
what I will do. And no alert on a stock I have not done the work on. Break that one and the phone
turns into noise, you start ignoring it, and nothing happens at all.

When it fires, nothing happens automatically. It fires, I open the chart, I read my weekend notes,
and I run my three questions. The alert did not make the decision. I told it in advance what the
decision was.

What that gives back is five days of not looking and five evenings of not refreshing the screen.
The stock does not know you are watching. It does exactly the same thing either way.

Peaceful does not mean doing nothing. It means you are on top of it, and deciding while you are
calm rather than while the price is moving.

Three things this weekend. Set one alert on one stock. Turn off every other alert — news,
dividends, all of it. And book 30 minutes each weekend to look at your holdings and refresh them.

Day 61 of 100. Education only — no buy or sell recommendation.

04/09/2026

Every stock is in one of four stages, and three of them are not worth buying.

Stage 1 is the base - a stock stops falling and goes sideways for months or years. Volume dries up, the news stops. But a base is not a buy signal. It is where you build the list.

Stage 2 is the advancement. Higher highs, higher lows. That is the stage worth buying.

Stage 3 is the top. It stops climbing, goes choppy, and six months later has gone nowhere. Not a sell-all signal, not a buy-more signal - a stop adding signal.

Stage 4 is the decline. Lower highs, lower lows. It looks cheap all the way down and gets cheaper.

Open your holdings and ask which stage each one is in.

Educational purposes only. Not a recommendation to buy or sell.

04/09/2026

When you buy a stock you think you are making one decision — which stock to buy. You are actually
making four, and you have to be ready at that moment in time.

Entry. Stop. Size. Exit.

Which stock to buy is the easy part. Let me take the other three one by one.

Entry is not "sometime this week". It is a trigger price, or a condition that has to happen before I
do anything at all.

Stop is the price where I accept I was wrong. Written down before I buy — not decided on the day it
falls. That is the most critical part, because on the day it falls you are not deciding anything,
you are reacting.

Size is how much of my money goes in. Nobody talks about this one, and it is the one that changes
the dial. Your position on the stock, and when to add more, is what changes the game.

Exit is when money comes off the table. It is the most difficult of the four and you need real
clarity on it, otherwise you simply give back all the gains you made.

Now be honest with yourself for a second. How many of those four did you actually decide the last
time you bought?

I did number one for years. Eventually I changed, and that is what made me a peaceful weekend
investor. Not decided on the day — written down beforehand.

Real money is on the line. Treat this as your business. Once you do, you start writing all four down
objectively and you are ready with your own instructions before the market opens.

Three steps as homework:

1. Take one stock you are watching and write all four down, so you are absolutely clear.
2. Size is the hardest part. Do not start with a number — start with a rule. No stock should ever be
picked randomly; you need a strategy for it.
3. If you cannot write down the stop, you do not buy. That is the whole filter, and it is in your own
interest.

Day 60 of 100, making you a peaceful weekend investor.

How many of the four do you decide before you buy? Type the number below — I am looking forward to
your comments.

Save this for your next buy, and send it to friends and family who only ever think about number one.

No buy or sell recommendation here — education only.

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