Each and every investor has his own personal preferences when it comes to selecting stocks on the SGX to invest in. Some may shun S-chip stocks while others may not want to own property stocks due to the regular “cooling measures” by the government. For me, when it comes to selection of stocks to invest in, the criterion is this: the stock must have a compelling story, a viable business model in order for me to want to park my hard-earned monies in.
Above criteria is the classification of stocks due to geographic and sector type, ever since the SGX mandates a minimum trading price for all mainboard-listed stocks, I will also choose to not invest in main-board stocks which are currently trading below the proposed minimum trading price of twenty cents. The reason is simple, a main-board listed share currently trading at one-cent will, be trading at $1 after ......