Most mornings, finance shows build a T20 XI: batsmen to buy, bowlers to sell. The format demands action.
I have watched this for years.
Some recommendations are good, but the structural problem is that patient investing makes terrible daily content.
A good company bought two years ago may still deserve the same answer today: Hold, but a morning show needs something new.
A daily finance format may struggle to survive on “do nothing.” It needs a new call, a new trade, and a new reason to act, and that becomes uncomfortable beside Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)’s August 2026 study.
📍 Around 91% of individual traders incurred net losses across FY25-FY26.
📍 Their cumulative net losses exceeded ₹2 lakh crore over those two years.
📍 In FY26 alone, 87.7% lost money, and aggregate net losses reached ₹91,685 crore.
One finding is harder to ignore.
Around 90% of traders who lost money for two consecutive years and continued trading lost again the following year.
SEBI’s data does not establish that financial content caused these losses.
It does make me question a format where investors are encouraged to have a fresh opinion every morning.
In over three decades in the markets, I have learned that doing nothing is also a decision.
Sometimes, it is the hardest one to sell.
If a format needs a fresh stock idea every morning, whose problem is it solving: the investor’s or its own?
(Views are for educational and informational purposes only and are not investment advice.)
