New Delhi, Dec. 26 -- Well-known stock market investor Mukul Agarwal traces his shift from short-term trading to long-term investing due to a simple but powerful realisation during the 2003-2007 stock market boom.

As stocks multiplied 10 times and even 100 times during that period, Agarwal began questioning his own approach towards the stock market. As a trader, he realised he was consistently making returns of 10-20%. But that felt minuscule compared to the wealth creation happening over the long term.

"I thought-what am I doing? I'm wasting my time," he recalls in a video that has resurfaced on the social media platform X.

This insight stayed with Agarwal, who utilised the 2008-09 market crash to shift his investing approach from sho...