Investing is a fascinating subject. It has the ability to captivate millions of investors and make them willing to watch stock prices on monitor screens for long hours. It also has the powers to galvanise investors to comb through long pages of financial statements filled with financial jargons without getting tired. You could be investing for 30 years and still not get sick of it. Yet, this passion for investing could present both joys and heartaches for many investors in their investment journeys.

I cannot speak for all investors, but I think some investors will have early in their investment journeys a moment when they realise that the stock market was destined to be a part of their lives. I call this the "awakening moment", similar to the moment when Neo, the main character in the movie "Matrix", was told that he had all along lived in ...