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Glossary

Every term is defined twice: once the way a filing would put it, and once the way somebody would explain it to you across a table. The second one is usually the one that sticks.

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InvIT

Market basics
Also called: Infrastructure Investment Trust

Infrastructure Investment Trust — a listed trust owning operating infrastructure such as roads, transmission lines or pipelines, distributing the income they produce.

In plain terms

Its headline yield is not comparable to a fixed deposit. A concession has a finite life, so part of that generous distribution is your own capital coming back.

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Commodity cycle

Market basics

The long boom-and-bust pattern in commodity prices driven by capacity lagging demand.

In plain terms

High prices invite new supply, which arrives late and crushes prices. Then nobody invests, and it repeats.

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Disqualifiers

Risk & psychology

Checklist items that are binary — any single one failing means no position, with no weighing against strengths.

In plain terms

The part of a checklist that does the actual work. Scored items invite you to trade a weakness off against a strength, which is precisely how people talk themselves in.

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Prospective hindsight

Risk & psychology

Imagining an outcome as certain in order to generate more specific explanations for it.

In plain terms

“What could go wrong?” invites reassurance. “It failed — explain it” demands a mechanism.

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Indian stock market glossary · Market Vidyalaya