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In this episode of Market Minutes, Zoya Springwala talks about the key factors to watch out for today before the domestic market opens. Unconfirmed reports of strikes in Iran might fan the risk-off sentiment, leading to domestic markets echoing the weakness seen in Asian indices on Friday. Also, catch Puneet Sharma, Whitespace Alpha on the Voice of the Day segment. Market Minutes is a morning podcast that puts the spotlight on hot stocks, key data points, and developing trends.

Whitespace Alpha is the top performing AIF amongst Category 3 Long Short Funds for FY 2023-24

The Lok Sabha polls are an important event when seen through the lens of investing. They impact people's financial goals marginally, if not substantially. However, retail investors are advised not to get carried away by short-term volatility and instead focus on long-term wealth creation.

Passive ETFs/Index funds outperform the majority of active fund managers. How many times have we read this headline! By now, even the most rookie investor understands that active managers who run a high expense ratio face an uphill battle in beating their benchmark indices on a net return basis.

In an interview with Moneycontrol, Puneet Sharma, CEO and Fund Manager at Whitespace Alpha, stated that he is not worried about the IT sector as we enter FY25. He also mentioned that he would be cautious when trading in this sector, but a happy long-term investor. Puneet further added that the IT sector has experienced large spikes in volatility, which may continue to occur in line with global investment actions.

From a Nifty trader's perspective, while the higher timeframe charts continue to look attractive, the cycle of higher-highs higher-lows is certainly visible on the daily time frame with in-between time-wise correction phases, analysts maintained.

Revised estimate for the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for FY2023-24 and the fiscal deficit are the two numbers that Puneet Sharma, president and CEO of Whitespace Alpha, will closely track in the interim budget on February 1.

Authored by Puneet Sharma, CEO of Whitespace Alpha, where he recommends bidirectional strategies to take advantage of volatility in the market.

Whitespace Alpha, has secured a CAT 1 AIF Special Situations Fund License. A significant achievement since its inception in 2019.

Anyone investing in the equity markets should not be swayed by short-term gains or losses. The long-term market returns should make up for the fact that the market has had a poor run in 2022 till now," Puneet Sharma, President of The Fund and CEO of Whitespace Alpha, says in an interview with Moneycontrol.

Keeping a 1-1.5 percent stop loss on a volatile stock is nothing better than a gamble. Even a minor fluctuation in the opposite direction will trigger your stop loss and get you out of the trade before you can blink.

The equal-weight method gives equal importance to each constituent in contrast to market-weighted investing, wherein the weight of each member is determined by the size. This is why during periods of volatility in bigger stocks, equal-weight indices outshine the benchmarks.