Quite wrong on so many levels. Suppose when the fellow bought the company last year, its value for example Total Assets-Total liabilities= 1,000,000/-. and it dished out 10000 shares at 100/- each, then made a kill on a music recording "manyake" CD pushin its profits to 1,000,000/-, of which it was reinvesting 700,000/- in equipment, and declares a dividend of 30per share for the year. Your investor sells his share for 124.9/-, who is loosing?

Statmeister, your understanding of how the stock market works leaves a lot to be desired.
May i suggest that you first seek to understand how a share moves from one price to the other and then prease re-phrase the question.

Till then...

sparkly, if only people followed Buffett:
Rule number 1 - Never Lose Money
Rule number 2 - Never forget rule number 1

@ stat. The nse isnt a gumbiin cassino as you are tryin to imply. But its a place where people get their fingers seriously burnt . Like those who bought KQ shares. Thank i was able to mitigate my KQ loss w/ some Co-op bank and some Rea vipingo. I hope they trade much higher.

To start with your time frame (6 months) is all wrongn for the stock market. People who try to make money too quickly get burnt.

Follow Buffet's formula, pick a solid company with good fundamentals, good management that has been undervalued by the market and hold for a very long time or until the fundamentals change