As a small investor, my strategy is to build up my stock portfolio bit-by-bit every month.  Let's see how does this strategy work out for me? This is a boring strategy.  It takes patient and perseverance.  Month by month after pay-day, I split my money into 3 pots - Investment, Warchest and Expense.  There is also a very small 4th pot - for the dividends received.  From the Investment and Dividend pots, I will buy into one or two stocks every month.  In the beginning, it was quite difficult because of the big "1000" lot size and the small amount of capital.  So, in terms of number of shares, Starhill Global Reit becomes my top holding. The "boring" truth is that my portfolio does increase incrementally, through the steady accretion of stocks by small monthly injection of capital. Margin of safety is very ......