Your Portfolio Is Not a Party Flag
Open X this morning. One feed screams multi-bagger. Another screams economy dead. Both want the same thing: the next swipe of emotion. India’s board is stacked with crore figures, FY26 PAT screenshots, GIFT Nifty ticks, and #MultiBaggerStockInNews. Somewhere a chart glows green. Somewhere a portfolio bleeds red. Politicians smell blood either way. Ruling-side accounts polish the 7.8% GDP medal until it blinds. Growth! Capex! India rising! Opposition handles polish the Sensex slide until it looks like a funeral. Dead economy! Kitchen fire! Collapse! Same stage. Two scripts. One audience: young people who confuse a hashtag with a balance sheet. Watch the trick. When indices climb, power claims the victory lap. When indices fall, rivals claim the autopsy. Neither side hands a risk note. Neither side asks what oil at triple digits does to margins. Neither side explains that retail FOMO and SIP faith are not the same as national destiny. The feed sells certainty. Markets sell probabilit...
