Every major investment market (eg. stock, property, commodity, forex, bond) has its own unique market cycle. A wise investor could combine 2 market cycles of 2 different markets to maximize the potential gains. Currently, regional stock markets have diversified performance.  Major economy such as US, China and Germany are still at moderate to high optimism levels.  At the same time, countries with GDP depend heavily on commodity, eg. Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, are suffering in slower economy due to declining commodity prices.  Their stock markets are at low optimism level now, risk seems to get higher with political uncertainty and weaker currency. The recent free-fall in share price for Glencore, major global commodity stock is an alert to the whole world, both commodity and stock markets. At the same time, local commodity related stocks such as Oil & Gas (Keppel Corp, Sembcorp Marine, Ezion, etc), Palm Oil (Golden ......