"Don't Jump Directly to Be a Trader or an Investor"

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1. Tell us about your background and journey.

Well it all started 5 years ago in 2015 when I started my journey of the stock market and started trading, investing, and analyzing different stocks using technical and fundamental tools. After which I used to handle share market portfolio of family and that time being young people at my age and elder then I used to see me as if am an alien (laugh) because all day I used to see my phones laptop and charts news and whatnot (I was mad I think).

It was going well and daily I used to get a call from my friends and from other people and they used to ask me about how the market will be today/ tomorrow, if there is any big news then how it will impact share market and they used to ask me in detail about that event. Most of them are not able to understand in technical terms of share market so I used to give different exams and make it easy for them and that is where I got an idea of making my own blog and am writing about all those things which happen in the stock market in easy and non-technical language and I used to share them all those, and this is how a trader and investor turned a financial blogger.

I want to educate people about financial independence and I want to teach them how to control their finances and downsize risk, as I believe the best way to make your identity is but educating people.

2. Which is your preferred financial daily?

I prefer going through Money Control News and Business Standard.

3. Your tips to the younger generation on how to go about understanding the basic financial stuff.

Read My blogs at www.battinaabhisek.online. Start reading newspapers like Economic Time and Business Standard as I, myself prefer them and last daily watch business news channels. You can gather a lot of insights if you go through these on a regular basis.

4. How can one know if Finance is the field for them? Can one take a test for the same?

Yes why now! But the point is how? Well everyone’s attitude and personality are different from one another and we can’t take everyone under the same roof it will be wrong everyone has some strong point with them, but one can know that he/she can do well in finance is your dedication, discipline and you should have a strong analytical brain and a quick decision-maker, remember you no need to be a great student or someone so intelligent just you should be dedicated and disciple that’s it finance is not rocket science but it greets those people how to respect but punish those who don’t respect financials.

5. One piece of advice that you feel would have helped you while starting out in this field.

If you want to dive into the stock market for trading/investing first read thoroughly about share market, you can get different blogs in my website on how to start investing, try to get a mentor or do some internship with financial firms it will give you the best foundation for financial markets, DON’T JUMP DIRECTLY TO BE A TRADER OR AN INVESTOR, I repeat Don’t.

If you want to be a blogger then also do the above things and start reading articles and blogs which are written so that you will get an idea on how to write it.

- Battina Abhisek (Financial Blogger)

Interview By - Monica Birua