Although 2015 is not my first year investing in the stock market, it is my first time investing in the Singapore market. Previously, I was focusing on the US market mainly due to two reasons:1) The minimum to invest in many of the Singapore companies was relatively high (compared to the US) due to the minimum purchase of 1000 shares. I was a poor student then hence this was a fairly big deterrent. However, this is no longer true as the minimum number of shares has been revised to only 100 since January 2015.
2) I could not easily get information and statistics about Singapore companies. At least not for free and/or via website with a simple & clean user interface. As my software skills continued to improve due to my day job, I thought that maybe I could create what I wanted, myself.
At first, this was meant ......