Yes, you are right, SJD. Markets responds more readily to political upheavels, news and rumours than economic performances - except perhaps during quarterly results!
SJD, why I said what I said is my personal inference after going through all that transpired in indian stock market in the past few years. It is not that I am a doomsayer or it is an ego play to prove anything to myself or others. It is more like a bit of scientific experiment sort of to see whether my hypothesis gets validated by the markets or not. Pure curiousity at this point in time.
You raised many different issuse in your post, So here, I would attempt to braid a couple of them in one single thought. I hope you would be able to make sense out of it as to what's going on from my point of view. If not, I ask for your indulgence anyway.
You see, for whatever reason if one's vision doesn't exceed one's nosetip, then GAAR is a partypooper kind of thing. And such a 'visionary' should stick to intraday trading. Cause that is the only kind of trading that wouldn't require any effort of structured thinking: just follow the next sheep's rear and you are home free...or in a ditch. But never ever in some kind of Gordon Gekko's office, puffing at 50 dollar Havana. Gordon Gekkos are the cream of the trading world, who have first-rate thinking brains. (
So there...now, as a bonus, you also know my recent, personally derived reason as to why daytrading is so popular the world over! :rofl
Anyway, coming back to topic. In the long term, however, GAAR is an absolute necessity ( Yes, you are absolutely right in your opinion). I mean, India is not Cayman islands or a casino in Las Vegas! However, trouble with GAAR is the usual trouble that aflicts India. It is too little too late. Now the tiger has become maneater, and they are thinking to train it back to be a deerhunter. No, it won't do. Worse, GAAR may do the exact opposite of what the F-ers in delhi think it would! They should have had something like this in place the moment FII and their tattoos, MFs, were making this market their playground. But that time collectively we all were licking their toes, as they were the ones who got us busy counting zeros of Sensex and dreaming of becoming an economic powerhouse. In fact, too busy to bother to know that it's all smoke and mirror show by these big players; that India Inc. that time wasn't worth one-tenth of what's being traded/projected. And now, typically, the price for that extravagance is being paid by the ones who had least to do with it. Big guns need to artificially pump money to have rallies to trap the proverbial Bigger Fools who normally are recent entrants. Because no old-hand, intelligent individual long-term investor in his right mind is ready to buy stocks so as to create natural ebb and flow of supply and demand. And without that there won't be any stability or benchmark or any trustworthy S & R. In other words, our market will more than often follow the 2nd law of Thermodynamics and have natural bias toward sideways followed by downtrends - till it bites the dust at around 4 years old grounds and comes to its senses.
I don't give a damn to what those TA/FA monkeys in suits yappy-yap all day long on channels or on this and that site. I only know this: that the above, to me in subjective terms, seems logically factual. If it is really so, then it will play out in objective reality sooner or later. Until then, Parnab da and other nincompoops are talking through the hats. F- them. They can't wish away reality by being intellectuals. By doing so, they may prolong the pain, but eventually they will be forced to accept the natural order of the things. So would those dimwits in Europe!