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Trading Report Card – Jul 10

August 2, 2010 by Alvin
July 10 was a quiet month of trading for me. I have decided to take a step back and review what I have done wrong. You can see there are no stock trades completed this month. I was mostly trading Forex which also had not much activity, and ended with a small loss. It was a to step back [...]

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July 2010 Portfolio Summary and Review

August 2, 2010 by Musicwhiz
OK, so maybe there’s really not much to say for July 2010 after all; unless you count the “usual” economic troubles with Europe, the housing crisis in USA, and the red-hot (but possibly overheating) property market in China. It’s basically the same old stories and news being churned over and over again for dramatic effect [...]

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Portfolio Management for Retail Investors

July 31, 2010 by 8percentpa
Ok so much so for institutional portfolio managers. On average, they are crap. Once in a while, you find stars like Peter Lynch, Seth Klarman and Warren Buffett. But these exceptional people are far and few in between. The interesting story about Seth Klarman is always about this book that he had written like ages [...]

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China Overtakes Japan

July 30, 2010 by Lau
According to a senior central bank official in an interview. China has moved ahead of Japan to become the world’s second-largest economy. Yi Gang, a vice-governor of the People’s Bank of China and also the head of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), did not explain how he had arrived at the figures, according [...]

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Calculating Long Term Profitability with Risk Reward Ratio

July 30, 2010 by Alvin
Tek Wee sent me an interesting Equity Curve Random Generator. So what is this generator about? It is for you to calculate your profitability in the long run, with a specific risk reward ratio per trade. In other words, how many times can you be wrong, yet you can grow your capital continuously. I try to [...]

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The Good and Bad of Fundamental and Technical Analysis

July 27, 2010 by Alvin
There is always comparison between Fundamental Analysis (FA) and Technical Anaylsis (TA). There is enough supporters at each side of the house, claiming FA/TA is more superior than the other. So which is better? FA or TA? The reason why market participants require FA or TA is because the flow of information is not perfect. [...]

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How to catch the bottom?

July 26, 2010 by La Papillion
It’s hard to buy right at the bottom. From personal experiences, if I ever bought a counter right at the bottom – the elusive inflection point just before it turns up – it’s just due to sheer luck rather than any godly skills in technical analysis or fundamental analysis. And because it’s just luck, it’s [...]

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Time To Invest In Apple?

July 23, 2010 by Lau
Telecommunications operators, SingTel and StarHub, will be launching the iPhone 4 on 30 July. The iPad will be available in Singapore from 23 July. Looks like the Apple phenomenon is very strong, is it an opportunity to invest in Apple shares? Is there still growth potential?

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How to Fail in Portfolio Management

July 22, 2010 by 8percentpa
Portfolio managers as a group has not contributed anything to the society at large. I mean a barber helps to cut people’s hair, a doctor saves lives and a teacher educates our children. Lawyers, politicians, portfolio managers, as a whole, subtracted value from the society, if you ask me. The famous stats is this, and [...]

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Help me! I am still losing money in my Investment Quadrant – Part 1

July 20, 2010 by Createwealth8888
“Successful stock investing starts from stock analysis and continue from it.” – Createwealth8888 Some DIY retail stock investors are still not very clear between Stock Analysis and Stock Investing. Many are still stuck in the stage of Stock Analysis and didn’t really advance themselves into the stage of Stock Investing. Knowledge, skills and mindset related to [...]

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The Essence of Investing

July 20, 2010 by Musicwhiz
After the trials and tribulations over the past 4.5 years, I admit I do spend an inordinate amount of time doing self-reflection, and at the same time, reading up on value investing and doing some independent thinking and analysis of my past mistakes; and how I can always improve on my investing techniques and stock [...]

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When to buy?

July 17, 2010 by La Papillion
I happened to see my buddy unicorn78′s comments that he wanted to get some reits/divy counters but is not sure if now is a good time to get in. I gave that question a fair amount of thought because I’ve asked myself that question a few times too. So, instead of sharing with him alone, [...]

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To be a cat

July 14, 2010 by La Papillion
I realised that I have a very relaxed stance towards investing my money these days. It’s not a lack of interest on my part – I mean who wouldn’t want to make more money right? It’s more of a change in attitude in me. Perhaps it’s the general lack of emotions towards my profits or [...]

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Windfall For Jumping Ship

July 12, 2010 by Tiang Chuan
The good times are back! And it has spread to the life industry; in the form of firms dangling top dollars to lure top performers. The Straits Times article – Windfall for jumping ship, published on 10th July 2010 highlighted this phenomenon. According to the article, “total compensation package could range from a few hundred [...]

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Portfolio Management: The Job

July 9, 2010 by 8percentpa
So basically portfolio management boils down to over or underweighting some benchmark stocks. Now that doesn’t sound too difficult, why should they be paid exorbitant salaries? And despite getting paid so much, they FAIL to deliver the results? Well first we talk about the skills needed. The portfolio manager needs to know a lot to [...]

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CAGR II

July 4, 2010 by La Papillion
Recently, I was given an opportunity by a reader to explain more about CAGR. It’s not a brand of cigar. It’s refers to compounded annual growth rate – a calculation to find out the compounded returns per year (note that this is different from simple interest rate). I actually wanted to share how silly this [...]

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Trading Report Card – Jun 10

July 2, 2010 by Alvin
Stocks The market has no clear direction of a trend for June. After the stock market came down in May due to the debts in Europe, it was time for a rebound and I bought 2 contracts. 1 in Singapore and 1 in Hong Kong. However, this rebound is a small one and in technical [...]

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BP: Short-sightedness of the stock market

June 30, 2010 by Kay
I’m sure that everyone is familiar with the oil company, BP even before the recent oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, which has been making the headlines beside the World Cup. The oil spill disaster has and will cause BP to pay billions in damages. With such a consequence, it is not surprising [...]

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