Come to think of it, I have been seriously investing since 2011. Although my first share purchase was done back in 2007, a few lots of Thai Beverage, which would not count as proper investment as there was no share analysis and business model study. It was more of a speculation. Over past couple of years I have bought shares based on different investment strategies, including net assets play, growth stocks, dividend counters, swing trading based on basic technical analysis such as MA, support and resistance levels. There had been varying degree of success with these strategies. Let me start off with some that had not worked so well for me. I bought Power Matic Data on ground that its price was below its NAV, or the Net-Net method popularised by Ben Graham. These shares are usually illiquid, unheard-of companies. So the bid-ask spread was very large. My order was ......