everybody in his /her investing career will get that one or two yrs of mind blowing returns,but what is important is to get a reasonable rate of return for your entire investing  lifetime..in a bull mkt execess as posted above are not uncommon but when the tide turns even lets say by 10% then it becomes interesting to see whose naked and who still has his trunks on.

You need market timing skills as Bubble says for those explosive sort of skills and mix it up well with your fundamental studies to stretch it to the maximum....

Congrats TED on this performance.  A special thanks to Basantji, smart catji, deveshji, vivekji for changing the way we invest & making us more knowledgeable.

Originally posted by smartcat only 33% are bullish on power sector. Remember power sector was the star performer in 2007. If someone maintains an overweight portfolio on power sector, their portfolio may underperform in 2008!!!!   Power sector picked up steam only in late 2007. Craze for a sector rarely gets over in 3 months. 2008 could still remain the year for power stocks.   Generally, once the investors are done with popular large caps like Rel Energy, Reliance Power, Tata Power, GMR etc, they will start looking at other existing players in the sector. Atleast that's what I'm hoping for!