2016 marks the 30th year that I have been involved in the stock market. The first 12 years were during my schooling days when I monitored stocks for my father while he was working. The next 18 years were when I invested with my own money after graduation. Looking back at these 30 years, it has been a pretty exciting journey. I experienced the market crashes of 1987 (crash for no good reasons), 1989 (ditto), 1990 (Iraqi invasion of Kuwait), 1997/98 (Asian Financial Crisis), 2000-2003 (dot.com bust, Sep 11 terrorist attack, US accounting scandals and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), 2007/08 (Global Financial Crisis) and potentially another one brewing currently.  In the meantime, I also experienced the super bull run of 1993/94 (Singtel IPO).   Throughout my investing journey, my investment strategies have never stopped evolving. When I first began investing with my own money in 1998, it was a ......