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The swan song of local bloggers

La Papillion — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:32:00 +0000

As the market transforms back and fro into a beast that is neither a bull or a bear (perhaps it had always been a hybrid chimera of sort – a bull with bear head for instance), I noticed that more and more old timer bloggers are slowly exiting the blogging scene. I say that with a tinge of heartache, because some of them had been blogging together with me since I started circa 2006 period, right near the peak of the bull market. 6 years had since passed, with each of them patiently and industrially churning out articles after articles, sometimes to an unappreciative crowd of anonymous users, and hopefully not blogging just to yourself.

I guess there’s a time and tide for everything. As we grow older, a lot of activities will exact their demands on our energy and time. Suddenly passions that you once had might have gone …

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-05

Ivan Guan — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:00:00 +0000

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Win tickets to the Singapore Airshow 2012!

financiallyfreenow — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:26:35 +0000

Do you want to see the Lockheed Martin’s F-35 JSF up-close? How about being enthralled by the flying displays from F-16 and F-15SG? If these don’t entice you, what if you can get to see the latest darling of commercial aviation, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner right in front of you?

I’m giving away one trade show ticket each to the Singapore Airshow 2012 to two lucky winners . This ticket can be used on the trade days from 14th February to 17th February 2012. You can choose to go on just one of the days or if u can’t get enough of the giant machines, you can choose to go on all of the four days.

All you have to do to win the ticket is to answer the following:

Name me 3 …

210,000 Pageviews and Counting

FF — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:58:00 +0000

Well, they say the first 200,000 is the easiest part (or at least I made that up). But anyway, after a roller coaster ride through the year, I checked my stats recently to discover that this blog has garnered over 200,000 pageviews. It is 210,000 today and I can only say that it is exciting to know that people are coming back for more. At least, it is a sort of comfort, that somebody is actually reading what I am writing.

I will like to thank all readers for their continuous support…

End of 2011

Martin Lee — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:10:12 +0000

In a couple of days, we will be entering the new year 2012.

I would like to take the opportunity here to give everyone here my best wishes for the coming year.

I haven’t been writing much for the past couple of weeks, partly because of the holiday season, and partly because I was trying to clear up some year end work…

2011 – Year end Review

OT83 — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:38:00 +0000

Similar to most people, let me share my year 2011 review.

My first post is on 1 Apr 2011. April fool day! My blog is now 8 months old!

Thank you!
It was, is and will be a very fulfilling and exciting journey to record and share my journey in investing. In this year I had learnt many things (average in, XIRR, emotion, power of internal strength etc) and had summarise the some of the key things which I have learnt in a blog post earlier. (See http://opposethetrend.blogspot.com/2011/10/my-story-typical-know-nothing-to-know.html).

Beside what I have learnt, I have also made friends with many interesting people such as 50k saving per year, 100k passive income, BBB WJ, Keppel’s Uncle with hot daughter in SMU, atas DBSS, audit director, leverage king, sexy mum, small fry, busty froggy, hot doctor, cookie monster, serious MW, drizzt, sexy SMOL, piggybank, …

Top 10 Favorites of BigFatPurse 2011

Alvin — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:22:18 +0000

Here is the list of 10 BigFatPurse posts most viewed in 2011! Thank you for the support and I wish you a great 2012 ahead!

ASSI celebrates second birthday!

AK71 — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 03:01:00 +0000

In another week, my blog will be two years old. Yes, time flies, doesn’t it?

It seems like just a few weeks ago when I started this blog out of curiosity and boredom. Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined how it would grow into what it is today.

I took this photo almost a year ago with my Samsung camera phone. Still a favourite of mine. Nice blue lights for Christmas!

I will be going away for a couple of weeks on another vacation. I will probably not be looking at the stock market or blogging in the meantime.

So, this is a big “thank you” in advance to everyon…

Time for Holidays! – Hong Kong Trip

Calvin Yeo — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:47:20 +0000

Hi all readers, it’s holiday season! Time for me take a break and that includes you too! Chasing after money is not everything, you got to spend quality time with your family and your loved ones. That includes taking at minimum an annual family holiday. I will be holidaying in Hong Kong from Wednesday onwards for a week. I can’t wait to eat the hot pot, roasted goose, dim sum and more… During this time, I will not be posting any new posts and looking at emails. I will reply all emails and comments when I get back!

Hong Kong, here I come!

Some of the posts which I will post after I return are review of the Pavilion REIT, continuation of Financial Freedom post as well as Part 2 of the Understanding REITs series!

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Running out of juice

OT83 — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:08:00 +0000

It been a week since I last posted.

Been running of ideas on what to write for my blog. Does all bloggers have the same difficulty of running out of stuffs to write?

Dear readers, do you have any suggestions on what topics I can write for my blog?

By the way, I broke my “kiam Sapness” over so many years. The past two phones which I bought are $0 and $48 respectively and I always choose the cheapest plan available. I also refuse to get 3G plans because I don’t want to end up like other people in MRT where everyone is frantically poking their phones every single second.

Sadly, I went over to the dark side yesterday.

I had bought a new phone LG Optimus 2X at the cost of $88 and change my current plan of Ioneplus to 3G flexi Lite. My bill will increase by …

Tea with AK71: A short break.

AK71 — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:00:00 +0000

I have not been blogging for a few days. I did not even look at the stock market.

My portfolio is not a trading one. It is basically one that generates regular and reliable passive income. So, it is not unthinkable to just leave it alone while I take a short break.

I did receive a SMS from my broker today regarding LMIR’s rights issue and how much I should transfer to subscribe to it. Other than that, I have been out of touch.

Where did I go the last few days? Here is a clue:…

Making Passive Income Hits 5000 Users Before End of 3rd Month!

Calvin Yeo — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:46:52 +0000

Making Passive Income hits 5000 Users in the Third Month!

I am proud to announce that before 3rd month end of operation, Making Passive Income has hit 5000 readers! It’s been a great time interacting with readers and other website owners.

Thank you everybody for your continued support! Stay tuned for more tips on Making Passive Income.

Rgds,
Calvin

Unable to post for the time being

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:36:00 +0000

I have been extremely busy with school and settling in that I feel I will not have much time to post for the foreseeable future. Thanks to all readers and commenters thus far.

The Bear Has Hit TheFinance.sg

Derek Lim — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:15:18 +0000

Dear Readers, Don’t worry, the balance sheet of TheFinance.sg is still healthy. The site was inaccessible for a couple of days due to excessive resource usage and I will be migrating to a higher capacity web-host. Intermittent downtime is still expected. I regret for the inconvenience caused. Related posts: Visualizing Strategy Decay 665 appoint guardians: [...]
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Most Popular Posts in June

Derek Lim — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 12:30:25 +0000

The top five articles in June are:

Standard Chartered Bank Singapore- NO MINIMUM BROKERAGE FEES!
Standand Chartered Online Trading Account
8 Singapore Stocks to watch during a bear market
Sometimes it’s better to be “stupid” and “wrong”
To Pay Or Not To Pay

SCB no minimum brokerage fees has been the top news this month and I know of several people who has already make the switch. I just receive news from POEMS that my brokerage team has been reorganized to serve me better and I even got a call from a broker in OCBC asking me to open an account with them. It seems like rival brokerage firms are feeling the heat!

I’m still in no hurry to switch because:

Once you buy shares from SCB, your shares will be kept by them and you must use SCB trading platform for all your trades. (I think you can transfer your shares out from SCB to your CDP account but may require a fee)
No options trading (thanks to reader Gary). I would believe this also means no short selling or warrants too because you will need to have cash prior to any trade.
No plans to to buy any shares unless the market plunge 20-30%.

Congratulations to Jared Seah (my guest blogger) for making it to the list. His article talk about doing something against the norm and benefiting from it.

Till July…

Hitting 10,000 Unique Visitors and Some Blogs are Meant to be Savored

FF — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:10:00 +0000

Hitting 10,000 Visitors Per Day

Blogging. I have probably written lots about it before and the targets that I have set for myself previously. Loyal readers of my blog will most probably know the targets that I have set for myself in terms of blog traffic and stuff. I realised that I have not been pursuing those targets that I have set for myself previously and that has somehow resulted in me being haphazard in my approach towards this blog.

It all starts with the mindset that goes: “Forget about those targets, let’s just do what I want and blog about what I want to.” Come to think of it, targets are actually not that bad. At least they help me to stay on track and be focused.

My target for this blog is to get 10,000 unique visitors per day. Will I be able to achieve such astounding …

BigFatPurse is back!

Alvin — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 05:25:22 +0000

After a short hiatus, BigFatPurse is back! I hope you do miss the posts :)

I have completed the first draft of my book. It would have to go through the process of editing and consultation with the interviewees for their respective sections.

I have not really nailed down the title of the book. Tentatively, I have put it as “The Hard Truths About Trading”. The subtitle would be “Interviews with 9 Singaporean Traders”.

What do you think? I bet you would say I borrowed Mr Lee Kwan Yew’s book, “Hard Truths”. There is no intention of publicity stunts but to really bring the right perspective to trading as a vocation and not a get rich quick avenue. Hence I find hard truths the apt depiction.

Who are the 9 traders you might ask. Assuming they are agreeable with the content, the 9 traders are (not in order of merit):

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