Every crisis is an opportunity. We have learned to be greedy when others are fearful. However, not everyone is mentally prepared to buy low and sell high following one’s personality. When a business is in crisis, the stock price is like a falling knife, one could get hurt when enters too early, buy low and may get lower, emotionally affected with the endless falling prices.
For example, over the last 2 years of crude oil crisis, stock prices of global oil & gas stocks are significantly corrected. Singapore oil & gas stock index is at 9% optimism (see chart below), a very attractive price level over the last 10 years, upside is much higher than downside from a long term perspective. However, whenever there is a technical rebound due to good news (eg. recovery of crude oil price), there could be another negative news who correct ......