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This I found crawled by google. somebody is going ti have a tough Monday.

History rarely repeats itself. But sometimes, the charts make you pause.

The Nifty’s current correction is beginning to look eerily familiar. The index has now gone through eight consecutive weekly declines, its longest losing streak since 2001.

During the comparable phase of the 2001 decline, the Nifty fell roughly 20.5% in seven weeks and eventually lost about 27% over nine consecutive weeks. In the current episode, the Nifty has declined roughly 8.7% over eight weeks. The pattern looks similar. The magnitude doesn't. And neither does the backdrop.

2001 was marked by the dot-com bust, the Ketan Parekh episode and the shock of 9/11. Today, the market is dealing with a very different combination of foreign outflows, crude prices, currency pressures, global interest rates and geopolitical uncertainty.

This is where an investor needs to be careful. A chart can tell you that something has happened before. It cannot tell you that the same thing must happen again. The right response to a historical parallel is neither complacency nor panic. It is to revisit the numbers—valuation, earnings, asset allocation, investment horizon and risk capacity.

Because the biggest mistake an investor can make is to confuse a resemblance in the chart with certainty about the future. History is valuable not because it predicts tomorrow, but because it teaches us how to think when tomorrow is uncertain.

I’ve seen people in this subreddit talk about making a lot of money through F&O, so I’m trying to understand something.

Recently, a stock adviser contacted me claiming they could provide profitable trades. They first gave me a few successful calls, which made me trust them. They asked for ₹22k, but only after profits, so I initially paid ₹6k.

Then they gave me an F&O trade where I lost ₹70,000 of my hard-earned money.

This made me wonder: if some traders can consistently make substantial profits, why don’t companies simply hire the best traders, give them capital from taking a loan, and run F&O systematically?

Then people can just buy company shares instead of direct money for investment in fno to comply with sebi rules.

Will it start all over again