I often times do not like to take a short term view to markets. My investment horizon as I'm sure would be the same for many of you is for years to come, even to the point of the retirement age. Nonetheless, it would be interesting to see what Oct has in store for us as traditionally Oct has been a pretty strong calendar month - so called "bear killer" month.   This being the beginning of the month for October I'm taking stock of my portfolio returns, sorted from best performer to the worst:   As can be seen above, both Raffles Medical and ComfortDelgro which are growth oriented stocks still performed in recent months, even returning a decent profit. The REITs portion of the portfolio also held up well, registering moderate drops. Singtel has seen some recent volatility but overall is still holding up quite strongly. OCBC has seem some ......