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    Top seven most common investing mistakes

    EVER watched any saas bahu sagas on television? How many blunders the protagonists in these serials make! And for their howlers, they are beaten up, jailed and even murdered (only to miraculously become alive again!).

    August 04, 2011 / 12:38 IST

    EVER watched any saas bahu sagas on television? How many blunders the protagonists in these serials make! And for their howlers, they are beaten up, jailed and even murdered (only to miraculously become alive again!).


    But, alas, life is not an Ekta Kapoor soap where you can make umpteen blunders and get away with it.


    For your investments, you might have to pay a heavy price for even small mistakes that you do. Here are the seven most common blunders that investors make.

    1. Believing that trading is the same as investing
    When you buy and sell stocks and mutual funds at the drop of a hat (read
    first published: Aug 4, 2011 12:31 pm

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