Opportunity Cost Is Too Much

So you may ask first question itself that what is opportunity cost? Opportunity cost is the cost of an 2nd alternative that must be forgone to pursue 1st one. In more layman term, by opting for one choice (out of two/multiple choices) what is the loss that we are incurring for not opting for another one.

You may remember, in last couple of trading sessions Sensex has regained its 19000 mark from January 2008. And market bottomed in March 2009 around 8000 levels in Sensex. From that level present level Sensex return is 137% considering 1900 levels in Sensex.

When market was bottoming out around 8000-9000 levels, I (in the sense many people would) have identified certain well known company's stocks like Axis Bank, Aban Offshore, SBI, Tata Motors.

Now if you take these kind of stocks' returns over the same period, from March 2009 to till now, you can see the kind of return Market has given over the same year & above mentioned individual stocks

Stock Name	March 2009 Price	Present Price	% Return
Axis Bank	200	1400	600
Aban offshore	250	850	240
Tata motors	200	1000	400
Stae Bank of India	900	3000	233
Market	8000	19000	138

will continue tomorrow because I am feeling sleepy...