In the past few years, we have probably given ourselves a little more slack because of the continuing bull run which does not seemingly going to stop. This bull run has been going for almost the past 6 years since the Great Financial Crisis and it has attracted many retail investors to start investing.
I was once a newbie investor so I totally understand how they were feeling. When market seems to be in buoyant mood and the counters you have in your watchlist are mostly green, you get a sense of security that investing is safe and profitable and you think the worst it could happen if the market undergoes some correction is to hold on to the stock and ride the storm for a couple of years. This is somewhat true in some sense. For example, buying ST Engineering at a PER of 20x means that it will ......