I began trading stocks during college at Delhi Technological University — analysing charts between lectures, placing trades during breaks. Most of what I tried early on did not work. Gut calls, hot tips, "this stock looks good" — the market was indifferent to all of it.
Then March 2020 arrived. COVID cut Nifty 38% in weeks. While most panicked and sold, one observation became unmistakable: those with a system stayed calm. Everyone else lost their nerve.
Thousands of hours went into the questions that actually matter: how to think about entries and exits without emotion, what protects capital in a crash, why costs and taxes quietly decide long-term outcomes — and, above all, how to manage the one variable nobody talks about enough: your own behaviour.
The hardest lessons weren't about markets at all. They were about fear, FOMO, and the constant itch to do something. The more I studied my own mistakes, the clearer it became that temperament — not prediction — is what separates investors who compound from those who don't.
That's what EquiWise is about. Not tips, not hype — just the durable principles of disciplined investing, explained clearly enough that you can think for yourself in any market.
I want to help people invest with less fear and more discipline.