Everyone has seen how stock charts look like. But have you seen the chart for your investment capital – how your capital rise and fall with time? The way your investment capital moves depend on the type of investor. I have heavily generalised 3 kinds of charts for the Buy-and-Hold investor, Trader and the Clueless investor. This is important because all of us would always monitor our capital time to time to see if it has grown. By doing this, we subject our happiness to it’s rise and dejection to it’s fall. And whether we still have the tenacity to continue investing when we feel dejected. The end point maybe the same, but the journey can be very different. Find out which of the capital movement chart you prefer and you can find out the type of investor best suits you.
The Buy-and-Hold Investor
On 11 January, I had a post titled “Healthway Medical: A beautiful symmetry.” In that post, I said: “I am a believer in chart patterns. See how the cup formation troughed at 9.5c and topped out at 14.5c? The target price in case of a breakout of the top of the formation is just a [...]
I have many clients who bought unsuitable products and as a result have to postpone their retirement for many years. Let’s say if they had just bought simple products, they would have retired at age 55. But because of the unsuitable products, they have to postpone their retirement to age 70.
Most of the time the [...]
259 pips profit was generated for the month of February 2010. 12 trades were executed: 9 trades won and 3 trades lost. This results in a Success rate of 75%!
If you are trading 1 full contract (100,000) per trade, your profit for 259 pips will be around US$2590.
Here are the details of my trades:
1. [...]
Hectic but fruitful life after a new entrant
Ever since my girl was born and my confinement lady left, life have been very hectic, tiring and sometimes frustrating. Eventually, when she learnt to smile at us, its had been one of the happiest moment of my life and instantly felt all this was worth it [...]
I attended a Thai language workshop that my organisation offers as part of the self-development training that staff can apply for and realised that personal growth comes from trying new things all the time.
Personal growth by itself is rewarding. You feel that you gain mastery over a skill, ability or technique and you are also exposed [...]
It’s only been almost 2 years since I began trading and I must say I am still learning how to trade. I have summarized the lessons learnt so far in my trading journey:
Be patient and wait for the best opportunity to place a trade
Trading is really a patient game. It is not as quick as I imagined in the first [...]
I purchased shares in Kingsmen Creative on January 25 and 26, 2010, and the following few postings will elucidate the thought process and analysis which went into the rationale for the purchase decision. Note that some of the factors which led to this decision are qualitative by nature, and are also known as “intangibles”, but [...]
You might have experienced deja vu before. It has happened to me countless times. Psychic? Maybe but sometimes, things just fall into place in the strangest ways.
Today, I received a payment voucher from my broker on income distribution from First REIT. This is not a very glamorous REIT but I count [...]
Estate planning addresses lifetime needs like permanent mental or physical disability and post-death arrangements.
The objectives are unique to the individual but generally include:
- Distribution of property in accordance to one’s wishes
- Sufficient liquidity to pay off debts
- Appointment of executors
- Security for dependents
- Contingencies
The 4 step process:
(1) Determine goals
(2) Preparation of plan
(3) Implementation of plan
(4) [...]
259 pips profit was generated for the month of February 2010. 12 trades were executed: 9 trades won and 3 trades lost. This results in a Success rate of 75%!
If you are trading 1 full contract (100,000) per trade, your profit for 259 pips will be around US$2590.
Here are the details of my trades:
1. [...]
It’s only been almost 2 years since I began trading and I must say I am still learning how to trade. I have summarized the lessons learnt so far in my trading journey:
Be patient and wait for the best opportunity to place a trade
Trading is really a patient game. It is not as quick as I imagined in the first [...]
329 pips profit was generated for the 1ST 3 Weeks of February 2010. 11 trades were executed: 9 trades won and 2 trades lost. This results in a Success rate of 81.82%!
If you are trading 1 full contract (100,000) per trade, your profit for 329 pips will be around US$3290.
Here are the details of [...]
TA is not about predicting price movements. TA always presents two possible scenarios. To most people, this immediately means it’s as good as not saying anything. Well, if we had a tool that could tell us if a security was definitely moving up or down, …………..; you fill in the blanks.
Then, why [...]
The Year of the Metal Tiger is upon us. Traditionally, the Lunar New Year is a festive period where the Chinese celebrate by giving angpows, buy new stuff after doing a thorough spring cleaning, clear outstanding debts and look forward to bountiful rewards. However, given that the tiger is a ferocious animal, this year is [...]
A reader, CT, posed some questions in response to my post yesterday:
“i was wondering why u would reduce ur exposure at this point in Goldenagri and STI. do u think that there will be another correction soon? or are u just afraid of high volatility? could u expand ur thoughts on that? i ask because [...]
On 11 January, I had a post titled “Healthway Medical: A beautiful symmetry.” In that post, I said: “I am a believer in chart patterns. See how the cup formation troughed at 9.5c and topped out at 14.5c? The target price in case of a breakout of the top of the formation is just a [...]
You might have experienced deja vu before. It has happened to me countless times. Psychic? Maybe but sometimes, things just fall into place in the strangest ways.
Today, I received a payment voucher from my broker on income distribution from First REIT. This is not a very glamorous REIT but I count [...]
Sing Holdings, one of my newer Stock Picks released its 2009 results last Friday. There were no major surprises in the numbers but the company did give an update on its project in Cairnhill – The Laurels”.
2009 results take-aways:
a) revenue in 2009 rose 243.6% to S$71.03mn
b) net profit was S$7.24mn up 426.6% from 2008 with [...]
| Automobile Insurance - Making it easier to find the lowest rates |
