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In Investing, It is Not As Simple As Applying Common Sense
By Invest Openly  •  December 6, 2014
This post is inspired by an article by Goh Eng Yeow (article title : In Investing, Use Common Sense) in Sunday Times last week. Ya, practicing common sense is useful and convenient advice when come to anything (i.e. not restricted to investing).

"Buy Low ; Sell High"

"Invest In Company With Share Price Below Their Intrinsic Value" (for Value Investors)

"Invest In Company With Strong Growth Forecast" (for Growth Investors)

"Invest and Hold and collect Dividend" (for Dividend Investors) 

These definitely are sure-win common sense right?

But the issue is, common sense is applicable to common scenarios, but in investing (or life, in general), we are constantly dealing with exceptional and un-common scenarios (which are mostly not within our control) and we need to response/react to them there and then. With varying experience and knowledge, the result/outcomes will vary too. Hence, there isn't a set of common sense ...
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By Invest Openly
My name is Richard Ng and I am a Malaysian turned Singaporean. This is a personal blog of mine detailing my venture in Share Investment Project. All the details in this blog are from my real venture (as it happens) and all amount quoted are in SGD (Singapore Dollars), unless otherwise stated.
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