I am a 26 year old software engineer from bangalore. I started investing in stock markets a year ago.
I believe in long term investing as well as regular profit booking.
I believe the greed and fear are always overdone.
The recent correction has made lot of fundamentally good stocks attractive but somehow the focus has not shifted on them. Well strange are the ways of market.

The following stocks look attractive to me:

Reliance Industries
BHEL
HDFC Bank
SBI
SpiceJet
Indian Hotels
Siemens
GMR Infra
Parsvanath developers
Sayaji Hotels
Punj lyoyd


Well to be frank , I have invested in some punter stocks too and i have learned that you should not put more than 5k in such stocks as it becomes difficult to average them if they fall considerably. The same is valid for stocks moving on some news.

Also i believe in averaging my holdings at lower levels.
For good fundamental stocks i usually wait for 6-7% correction from my buying levels.
For small /midcap stocks i usually wait for more than 10% correction.
All these are subjective depending on the quality of the stock.

I feel by investing in bluechip stocks itself an average joe investor can make more than 25% depending on the time he enters the market.

Also i believe in keeping at least 25% of the cash in hand to deal with market volatility.

Last but not least Discipline is very necessary . Never stray away from your investment plan.

I dont consider myself as a seasoned investor but i have tried to put together whatever i have learned from the market so far.