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The Faithful investor wins again

  The Faithful Investor Wins Again! From "All fall down... to All gallop away"! Humpty Dumpty Sat on a wall; Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; And when all thought that this could not be put together again; it galloped away!! The popular nursery rhyme and the financial markets seem to have a lot in common. On one side, the memory of the market bloodbath is fresh when investors lost lakhs of crores helplessly in what we call the 'March Madness', where the financial markets fell by more than 30% pushing the indices to the lowest in last three years.  The panic and uncertainty was everywhere which didn't spare even the investor of fixed instruments. In less than 8 months the indices climbed back and recorded a fresh all time high on 11 Nov 20 and yes what a come-back indeed! Between 'Then' and 'Now', the investors passed through mixed feelings ranging from total despair; naturally due to the extent of notional losses that many faced, to the the current