A note before you read this: This is a personal story about a specific trade I made in 2020, shared for the general lesson (buying during a market dip), not as investment advice or a promise of similar returns. Past results — mine or anyone else’s — don’t predict future performance.
This happened during the 2020 pandemic, the stock market had a crash and all my favorite company’s stock had their lowest rate, a market crash ( in stock market language ). A market crash is a time you get all your favorite stocks at a heavy discount. As a beginner, I used to follow a few stocks that are fundamentally good and performing stock. But those stocks were at a peak price. And this lockdown bought all stock to their lowest rate and I had the opportunity to get few stocks of INFOSYS at Rs 633. (it was a good price )
INFOSYS, TCS, and ITC (I bought the latter at Rs 158) were the stocks I personally chose to buy during this dip, based on my own view of their fundamentals at the time — not a suggestion that these specific stocks are right for anyone else today.
I also tried buying TCS, but no luck because it all hit the lowest rate and many were behind that stock to buy. So whatever stock I could get I bought and left trading.
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The graph above highlights the lowest and highest points I referenced at the time.
I bought the shares around March 23rd, 2020 and sold around July 25th, 2020 for Rs 928 — a real trade I made, specific to that particular market crash and recovery period.
That worked out to more than 40% return within roughly 6 months — a genuinely good outcome for that specific trade, but a market-crash-driven opportunity like this doesn’t come along often, and this single result shouldn’t be read as a typical or repeatable outcome.
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Note: Short-term investment gains attract capital gains tax
All I did at the time was follow share market news to understand why prices were falling — which, during that period, was simply the broad market impact of COVID-19, not stock-specific news.
The stock market can be genuinely engaging to follow, but patience and avoiding greed matter more than any single trade.
