“Where do you get your ideas?”

This is a common question I often hear when someone approaches me about investing. Finding ideas is not always straightforward and it requires some level of effort and a knack for observing events and things around you. But if you’re willing to put in that bit of effort, I can guarantee that you will find many potentially profitable investment ideas through these three ways I’m going to share with you:

1. News

The most common way I find new ideas is through reading the newspaper or publications on investment/finance/business. You will be surprised at how many ideas you can find just by reading from news sources.

For the Singapore market, I read The Strait Times, The Business Times, and The Edge. For Malaysia, I usually just read the Malaysia edition of The Edge. For the Hong Kong and Thailand markets, I ...