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However, the payoff of strategy is that of limited profit and limited loss as there is one out of the money sold put. The maximum gains will be restricted up to Rs 8,125 because the gains of a long 39,000 strike Put will be offset by the sold 38,500 strikes Put if Nifty Bank closes below 38,500 on expiry.

"Markets have not discounted a sharp and long recession in the US. If that scenario pans out, the market may witness sharp drawdowns. Thus, it would be better to partly move into pharma and FMCG," said Dr V K Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist, Geojit Financial Services. Foreign portfolio investors pumped in Rs 2,765 crore in FMCG stocks in September, the highest inflows last month, while they bought healthcare stocks worth Rs 1,833 crore.

Nifty IT index has corrected more than 50 per cent on a year to date basis, compared to a two per cent drop in Nifty50. It is the worst performing sectoral index for the year and only one in the bear grip, falling more than 20 per cent.

We have seen good up moves in some of the banking space wherein banks like ICICI and SBI have been outperformers. But if you go beyond that Axis Bank today at 750 levels used to be at 650 back in 2015, same where IndusInd Bank is much lower than where it was in 2015.

Financial planning, money management, and investments have traditionally been male-dominated and male-oriented. Women have not been encouraged to actively manage money as the ecosystem has predominantly targeted men.

Gold prices have moved lower over the course of 2022, as many central banks across the globe have embarked on rate hiking regimes in order to get control of inflation. Gold in India hit another new low, as the US dollar continued to make new highs on the back of the US Fed announcing one of the most aggressive rate hiking campaigns in decades.

The correction in commodity prices in the second half of the previous quarter has offered some respite to the industry. This has also instilled the hope that the worst for the FMCG sector in terms of higher input costs and rural growth slowdown may be over.

Credit Suisse Group strategists said this week that earnings faced an "extreme" risk and that stock funds had yet to see "significant" outflows - all implying further declines in the S&P 500.

However, it also depends upon the stocks you select, a majority of companies need constant active tracking as in monitoring their quarterly earnings, sectoral tailwinds, and actions of the management at periodic intervals, and doing it on a part-time basis is dangerous.

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said last week that 57% of the dip in reserves was due to valuation changes.