Global markets all have corrected lately. Irrespective of which market you are investing in, you would have been affected by the recent volatility. You could be an investor in America, India, China, Korea or anywhere else in the world- your situation would be pretty much the same. Many of you who are new investors might have entered panic mode, where you are unable to relax and have lots of stress and depression. I understand how it must be for somebody who just started investing in either stocks or mutual funds two months ago to see a notional loss of 30% or more now.

I remember the first time several years ago when I witnessed a stock market correction, my portfolio was down by over 50% and I too had entered panic mode. But thankfully after reading books on investing and listening to more experienced investors, I decided not to panic and hold my quality stocks. I am a much happier person today thanks to that decision.

Here are seven simple ways to survive a stock market correction as an investor:

1. Stop Listening To Analysts

Most analysts in the media instead of providing you with a solution will just confuse you. Somebody will say everything is doomed while others will say things are great in the long term. Forget listening to analysts- most of them won’t be of any help. The reason people listen to analysts is because they are looking for peace and hope. Trust me you will get none of that by listening to somebody else. Peace and hope are all within you.

2. Stop Staring At Your Portfolio Every Thirty Minutes

Another mistake people make is that they get up every morning and wait for the markets to open. Once markets open they start staring at their stock prices. A fall makes you feel worse and small rise makes you feel a little better. This won’t help either. Instead keep track of the fundamentals of your company every time the results are out. If your company is profitable and growing - be happy. If it isn’t, find out if you need to exit. The stock price will catch up in the near future if business is growing. Do you stare at your money kept in a bank FD everyday? Most probably not. Use the same principle when you invest in stocks or mutual funds.

3. Be Patient

Many of you might not have a lot of cash to buy cheap now; however please be patient with whatever you have bought. Even the youngest billionaire on Earth today is 23 years old. It took him 23 years to be a billionaire and he didn’t do it in few days or weeks. The youngest billionaire probably in history is 23-year-old Mark Zuckerberg - the founder of the social networking site-Facebook.

4. Speak To Actual Investors With Experience

Instead of interacting with analysts or your broker, speak with people who are actual investors and who have been in the market for longer periods of time than you. They will tell you how they have survived various stock market corrections and what has made them richer. Read and learn more about people who have actually created wealth and sustained it over a long period of time.

5. Stop Following Crazy Tips

Please for heaven’s sake stop following ‘hot’ tips which promise to make you a millionaire in a matter of months. Maybe the ‘hot’ tip is only meant for billionaires who would end up as millionaires in case they do follow the tip. If it seems to good to be true, it is probably just a scam, which hopes to take money away from retail investors and put them in the hands of greedy manipulators. Similarly stop following rumours about how fundamentally strong companies are going to be shut down and go bankrupt in the next few months. Use your own head and trust yourself.

6. Understand Market Cycles

Every asset class has a cycle. Stock markets, mutual funds, real estate all move in cycles. Please realize that nothing can keep going up forever in a single direction. There will be phases when prices will come down and again move up. If you go back into history you will see several instances when stock prices came down, however over a period of time quality companies always reward investors. Understand market cycles, and don’t become a slave to them.

7. Follow The Guru

Today the richest man on earth, Warren Buffett, is an investor who has created wealth because he has stayed away from what everybody else is doing and has simply invested in quality companies for the long term. He invested in Gillette, for the simple reason that he believed that men won’t stop shaving. It makes sense to follow, as I call him, “The Guru” and think long term and remember people who create wealth do things that others don’t.

I’m sure if you follow the simple techniques above you will be a much happier and a calmer investor. Investing is about controlling your emotions and being disciplined about what you do.

JSW Energy filed papers for IPO

JSW Energy has filed its papers with SEBI for its proposed initial public offering of 6,32,25,000 shares of Rs10 each. JSW Energy plans to raise over Rs 3,500 crore from the issue, to finance construction and development of identified projects aggregating to 3,410 MW in capacity and to repay debt. It has 3,670 MW of generating capacity in the operational, construction or implementation phase as well as has power generation projects at early stages of development with a combined installed capacity of 9,600 MW.

JSW Energy is part of the Sajjan Jindal-led JSW group, which has presence in steel, power, cement, aluminium, software, and infrastructure sectors. JM Financial, Kotak Mahindra Capital and ICICI Securities are book running lead managers to the issue.

Reliance Infratel to mop up Rs 6,000 cr via IPO

Mumbai: Reliance Infratel, the tower subsidiary of Reliance Communications, is mulling to mop up Rs 6,000 crore via an Initial Public Offering (IPO). The company has filed the Draft Red Herring Prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).

The Anil Ambani group company has proposed to offload 10.05 per cent stake to the public, which puts the valuation of the company at around Rs 60,000 crore. The IPO follows that of another group company, Reliance Power, which is to be listed on February 11. According to the DRHP, Reliance Infratel has proposed to offload 8,91,64,100 equity shares of Rs 5 each at a price that will be decided through the book building process. Around 60 per cent of the issue will be allocated to Qualified Institutional Buyers (QIBs), with 5 per cent for mutual funds, and 30 per cent to be allocated on a proportionate basis to retail individual bidders.

Investors bid for as many as 72 times the number of shares that Reliance Power offered for subscription under its initial public offering (IPO). They have put in bids for over 1,654.8 crore shares as against the 22.8 crore shares on offer.

The figures are based on the latest data available but merchant banking sources associated with the offer said that the final tally and the investor composition will be known later in the night.

The issue has already pulled in roughly Rs 60,000 crore by way of application money based on the data available as of yesterday – the exact amount depends on the investor composition.

The IPO received maximum response on the last day compared to the first three days, with the subscription count racing from 24 times as late as 9 p.m. on day three to over 72 times by 6 p.m. today.

On the evidence so far, it is clear that there has been surge in investor response on the last day compared to the earlier three days.

In terms of number of applications Reliance Power IPO has set a new record. It received ever nearly 31 lakh applications by the end of day three, the highest ever, according sources in the merchant banking industry handling the IPO.

By the end of day three the retail portion of the shares on offer received 9.02 times bidding while the qualified institutional buyers’ portion was subscribed 30.68 times. The non-institutional investors’ (corporate and high net worth individuals) portion was subscribed 32.40 times, as per composite BSE and NSE data compiled till late night yesterday.

How it compares

Among mega issues the Reliance Power IPO has thus set a new benchmark in fund mobilisation. The DLF IPO, which raised Rs 9,188 crore in 2007, received subscriptions only about three times the 17.5 crore shares on offer and the retail portion of the issue barely managed to get full subscription.

Cairn India, which raised Rs 5,260 crore through the IPO in 2006 by offering 32.88 crore shares, again barely managed to get subscribed by 1.3 times under volatile market conditions.

Reliance Petroleum IPO received a similar response with the Rs 2,700-crore issue getting subscribed 52 times for the 45 crore shares on offer and received a commitment of Rs 1,45,080 crore.

Reliance Power is planning to raise Rs 11,700 crore for a number of power generation projects that it plans to execute.

Rel Power IPO has a big bang start, oversubcribed

The $3 billion Reliance Power IPO had a big-bang opening on Tuesday morning and the issue was oversubscribed 6.7 times at Rs 450 per share — the upper end of the price band — within hours of opening of its book building process.

Billed as India's largest initial public offer, the IPO is drawing huge response from investors. The Qualified Institutional Buyers or QIB portion has been subscribed 11.3 times with bids worth $17.6 billion. Most of the bids for the issue has come in at the upper band of Rs 450 per share

According to latest data available, the IPO received bids worth over Rs 40,000 crore in the first five minutes of the book-building process.

Over 228 million shares of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group company are on offer in the country's largest-ever IPO with an estimated proceeds of Rs 11,700 crore.

The issue will close on January 18. The price band is between Rs 405-450 per share. The total issue size is of 260 million shares, including the promoters’ contribution of 32 million shares.

Over 30 per cent of this issue is reserved for retail investors with two payment options. Investors can pay in staggered installments or make a full payment upfront.

Retail investors have been also offered a discount of Rs 20 per share, which implies their net cost of subscription will be Rs 430 per share, if they choose to bid at Rs 450 per share.

Under the part payment option, retail investors have the option of putting in only Rs 115 per share upon application. The balance will be called upon, post the allotment of partly paid shares.

With a combined planned installed capacity of 28,200 MW, Reliance Power has one of the largest portfolios of power generation assets under development in India.

RELIANCE POWER PORTFOLIO

Reliance Power has a diversified portfolio of 13 medium and large-sized power projects, under development and strategically located at various places across India, the company had said in a statement.

With an installed capacity of 28,200 megawatts, the Reliance Power IPO will significantly contribute to reducing the demand-supply gap for the power in the country at competitive rates, it added.

The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) has announced plans to invest Rs 1,00,000 crore in the power business, while it is aggressively bidding for road projects and as well as in the transport sector. Group company Reliance Energy has bid for the Rs 50,000 crore Ganga Expressway Project in Uttar Pradesh.

It is also bidding for airports at Udaipur and Amritsar and is in the race for the ambitious Mumbai Trans Harbour Link project.

Kotak Mahindra Capital Company Limited, UBS Securities India Private Limited, ABN AMRO Securities (India) Private Limited, Deutsche Equities India Private Limited, Enam Securities Private Limited, ICICI Securities Limited, JM Financial Consultants Private Limited and JP Morgan India Private Limited are acting as the Book Running Lead Managers to the Issue whilst Macquarie India Advisory Services Private Limited and SBI Capital Markets Limited are acting as Co-Book Running Lead Managers.

Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co is advising the Company whilst Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and J Sagar and Associates are advising the BRLMs and CBRLMs in relation to the Issue.