About 1 year ago when I first decided to get involve in the stock investment and blog about it, I must say that I have close to ZERO knowledge about stock investment, don't even mention about ETF or REITS, BONDS etc.. It could be due to my risk-averse nature (or play safe mentality) or maybe most of my friends/colleagues are not so investing-savvy, so we seldom talk/chat about stocks investment at all. Looking back now, for the past 360 days or so, after attending a couple of investing related seminars/courses, reading through a couple of investment related books (both eBooks and physical books) as well as many personal finance blogs and online sites, I must congratulate myself that my stock investment acumen has increased slightly, in my own assessment, by 0.5 (i.e. from ZERO to ZERO POINT FIVE). Why 0.5? The reason being that personally I am not very sensitive to numbers and ... ...