Ignore it all...

I'm sorry I'm being so blunt - even rude - but as the Indian stock market has had its ups and downs, any self-declared experts have swung this way and that, like a weather vane in shifting winds. One week, they're proclaiming the dawn of a new bull run, their voices dripping with conviction; the next, they're prophesying doom with equal certainty. What's most remarkable is not their ability to be consistently inconsistent but rather the unshakeable confidence with which they deliver each new forecast, all the while hoping that their audiences had forgotten the previous one. When the markets went down in October, and everyone said that the FIIs were shifting masses of money to China, we had many articles, opinions and reels about how fabulous China was. It was a reversal, and the opinions reversed, too. Then, that cycle repeated itself in a matter of weeks. Somehow, investors are supposed to glean some wisdom from these flip-flops. Suggested read: Not just the day's numbers What's particularly a