Everyone's asking if AI is in a bubble. Months ago, when the AI rally was in full swing, Devina Mehra looked at the risks beneath the hype. As the debate around AI valuations, spending and returns gathers pace, it's a good time to revisit this piece. Read article here: https://www.firstglobalsec.com/fg-in-the-press#888 Article titled, "Is there an AI bubble? Here is a look at what's brewing" Need a portfolio bui…

Channel
First Global
@firstglobalsec
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Posts · Citations · Handles named that no longer answer · Cite this entry
506subscribers
-8 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001341665564 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @firstglobalsec |
| Created | Between 1 March 2018 and 31 August 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 2 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 7 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 2 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/firstglobalsec |
Topic
Crypto & trading — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 21 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 49% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Oct 2026, 05:16 | 506 | -3 |
| 17 Sept 2026, 21:59 | 509 | -2 |
| 9 Sept 2026, 18:57 | 511 | -1 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 23:55 | 512 | -1 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 14:15 | 513 | -1 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 04:04 | 514 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 21:08 | 514 | first reading |
Engagement
17 posts held, back to 23 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 17 posts for this entry, the most recent from 7 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
What this channel posts
- Video runtime
- 6m 23s
- Average length
- 1m 36s
Measured directly from 4 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
Recent posts
Everyone loves small caps... until they crash. An 80% fall changes everything. But here's the question most investors never ask before investing in small cap stocks. @DevinaMehra explains why surviving a crash is often harder than chasing returns. Would you still stay invested after a fall like that? Share your answer below. 👇 Looking for an investment strategy focused on managing risk as well as returns? 📩 DM…
When people ask whether one should be a bull or a bear, there’s a third — and far better — answer: Be a hare. At @firstglobalsec, the hare isn’t just a mascot. It represents how investing actually works. A hare is alert, fast, and agile. It can move swiftly — and change direction just as quickly. That is how one must operate in the markets. You cannot be wedded to a point of view, because investing is a bet on …
Most investors worry about when to invest. But an equally important question is when not to exit. _Getting out of the market during volatility can interrupt years of compounding. Yet SEBI data shows that Mutual fund inflows peak after the peak of the market and bottom out after the bottom of the market - basically most investors get in and out at precisely the very worst times. At First Global, we focus on buildi…
Do interest rates only affect your EMIs? In Money, Myths and Mantras, Devina Mehra explains why interest rates have a direct impact on stock markets too. Here's why👇 * Higher interest rates → Higher expected returns from equities * Higher discount rates → Lower valuations * Growth stocks usually feel the biggest impact The market isn't just pricing today's earnings. It's pricing future cash flows —and the cost o…
https://youtu.be/bTyS28nPmS0 As AI reshapes industries, the bigger question is: Are investors buying great businesses—or just the narrative? Not every breakthrough creates long-term winners. This conversation explores why technology, market cycles and human judgment matter just as much as innovation. At Fortune India's Most Powerful Women (MPW) 2026, Devina Mehra joined Arundhati Bhattacharya and Ipsita Dasgupta,…
What if being first isn't always an advantage? Most of us believe pioneers win. But what if creating a new market also means making it easier for everyone else to catch up... or even overtake you? From packaged atta and Amul to ChatGPT and AI companies, the same business pattern keeps repeating. Why does history keep proving this point? Read Devina Mehra's latest Mint column: https://www.firstglobalsec.com/fg-in…
Is finance truly a level playing field for women? Devina Mehra shares her candid experience of working with global investors and reveals how different cultures approached women in finance. From Wall Street to India, her observations on bias, leadership, and the changing role of women in investing Have things really improved, or do these challenges still exist today?
High conviction doesn't usually go with high returns. Surprised? Don't be. High conviction is a fancy name for Storification and getting emotionally involved with your stocks. Which means you do not take cognition of changing realities. Always stay flexible with your investments. As an example, we made great money in our PMS in chemical stocks from 2020 to 2022 but we had not become 'believers' in the story. H…
The July 2026 FOMC meeting wasn’t just another rate hold. The headline stayed the same, but the message changed. A rare three-member dissent, Chair Warsh’s data-dependent approach, and persistent inflation risks reveal a more hawkish policy backdrop than the unchanged rate decision suggests. This report examines the policy decision, market reaction, and the factors that could shape the Fed’s next move in September…
We’ll read reviews, compare specs, and watch videos before buying a phone. But when it comes to investing our money, many of us act in seconds...sometimes based on information from unknown or shady sources. Bad outcomes in investing usually don’t come from bad markets — they come from low-effort, casual decisions. If market noise is confusing you and you want clarity over guesses, DM us or write to enquiry@firstg…
Could you handle 5 years without making money? Now imagine the entire stock market delivering almost no returns for 9 years. That's exactly the perspective Devina Mehra shares while talking about Rakesh Jhunjhunwala —and why patience is one of the biggest advantages an investor can have. The full context might surprise you.
Showing the 12 most recent of 17 posts we hold for @firstglobalsec. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Mentions
Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
Handles this channel named that no longer answer
- Dead references
- 1
- handles named in this channel’s posts, vacant today
- Evidenced gone
- 0
- we ourselves saw one of these resolve, at some point
- Never seen alive
- 1
- vacant every time we have ever looked
@firstglobalsec named 1 handle that resolve to nothing today. That is a fact about the reference, not necessarily a fact about the handle’s history — see the two groups below.
Most of these may never have existed as a live channel at all. A handle a channel names can be a typo, an aspirational name nobody registered, or a channel that was already gone before this one ever mentioned it. Unless a row below is marked evidenced, all we know is that it references a handle that is not a live channel today — not that anything “died”. How this is measured.
Never seen alive
References a handle that is not a live channel — we have no record it ever was one.
named in 1 post, 9 August 2026 – 9 August 2026
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 2 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“First Global” (@firstglobalsec), 506 subscribers as measured 2 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/firstglobalsec.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.