The year 2014 has come to an end. Our local stock market remained subdued throughout the year. STI gained 6% only with relatively tepid volume in that year. My portfolio of local stocks was up 8.68% in 2014 after taking dividends into account. The performance is somewhat comparable to the index. Overall, my annualized return since 2010 was 9.20%. In the past one and a half year, I have liquidated nearly half of my local portfolio. 70% of that was put into cash while the remaining was deposited in an Interactive Brokers account. I started trading the US market in the beginning of 2014. By focusing and leveraging on fundamentally stable and large capitalization companies, I am able to boost my overall return for the year 2014. My cumulative return in the US market was 59.42%. If not for the knee jerk reaction after the release of ......