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Strong Resistance

February 3, 2012 by mmltrader
S&P facing a strong Resistance, preventing it to go higher….
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David Dreman–Stocks have never been so cheap since 1982, good opportunity to buy

February 3, 2012 by Drizzt
Joe Granville recently predicted DOW to drop by 4000pts. Today I came across contrarian investor David Dreman saying stocks have never been so cheap since 1982 So now we have one that offers a technical take and now David Dreman offers a fundamental take People currently do not want to be in the market because [...]

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Bogle, Volcker Discuss State of U.S. Financial System

February 3, 2012 by Wilfred Ling
Written by Wilfred Ling    Thursday, 02 February 2012 John Bogle, the founder of mutual fund company Vanguard Group Inc. who popularized index investing, and former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker discuss the U.S. financial system and investor confidence: This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you’re [...]

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Starhub FY2011 Results–Back to stable cash flow levels

February 3, 2012 by Drizzt
Starhub announced their full year 2011 financial results. Overall, my take is that they got back to pre-iphone competition level of operations. I would not say it is spectacular but rather, the reasons operation wise, why we like Starhub is finally back. Here are some of my takeaways: Profitability Gross profit 4th quarter grew by [...]
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Retirement Planning Mistakes

February 2, 2012 by FF
[Photo credits: Image by kwerfeldein] For most people, retirement is probably the best part of  life they look forward to. Yet, many people often make certain mistakes in retirement planning.  In this article, you will find out what are some of the common mistakes made and how you can probably avoid them. Introduction Retirement is a [...]

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Mistake #3 – Compromising on your margin of safety

February 2, 2012 by dzwm87
“Human emotion and irrationality often lead to market folly as investors are driven by the typical fear and greed.” And this is the focal point of my mistake #3. If you have been sticking closely to the market (SGX) announcements for the past year till date, you will have realised there had been several takeover [...]

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Five Steps to Financial Freedom Step 2 – Get Rid of Unnecessary Debt Part 3

February 2, 2012 by Calvin Yeo
This is a continuation of the Five Steps to Financial Freedom Series, for the previous post please refer to Five Steps to Financial Freedom Step 2 – Get Rid of Unnecessary Debt Part 2 Five Steps to Financial Freedom Step 2 – Get Rid of Unnecessary Debt Part 1 Five Steps to Financial Freedom Step [...]
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Added CapitalMall Trust into my Portfolio

February 2, 2012 by B
2 February 2012 – I added a small 2 lots of CapitalMall Trust into my portfolio. With Iluma renovation, JCube and the development of Jurong WestGate to be completed shortly, looks good to load for future upside potential. Will look to add further should there be any further downside. At 1.705, hopefully it’ll be a [...]
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Sold AIMS

February 2, 2012 by OT83
Sold AIMS today. Decide to sold AIMS as it hit resistance of 1.025 and forgo the dividend since today is the last day before xD. ROC: 6.95% Will re-enter again when time is right. (As a personal reference pt, this is the first day where my personal account turns positive with healthway still have xxxx [...]

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Courage Marine: Chance to cut loss.

February 2, 2012 by AK71
With the BDI sinking amidst a worsening situation of overcapacity and economic malaise in Europe, the rally in Courage Marine’s share price provided a chance for me to cut my long exposure with minimal losses. We are also blessed to have an industry insider, Jason, amongst the regular readers of ASSI and if the evidence provided is [...]
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Why it is easier to become rich from property and not stocks? (2)

February 2, 2012 by Createwealth8888
Read? Why it is easier to become rich from property and not stocks? Act of Partial Divestment in stocks In properties, you can’t do partial divestment but you are comforted by the monthly cash flow from rentals and it helps to keep you in good spirit and wait for the right moment to come. You [...]

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Research Reports on Singapore Listed Companies

February 2, 2012 by Martin Lee
The different brokerage firms will produce their own in-house research reports on selected SGX-listed companies. You can access the various research reports if you have a trading account with the respective brokerage firms. Another way is to visit The Society of Remisiers website, which holds the research reports of all the brokerage firms. However, it [...]
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NOL: Cutting losses on a strong rebound.

February 2, 2012 by AK71
Months ago, I made an ill fated decision to go long in NOL. It was a decision based purely on TA and it was a trade that went awry. Straying from my tried and tested methodology of FA + TA plus a lack of a cut loss price has resulted in holding on to paper losses. I [...]
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Fundamental versus Technical Analysis – Part 2 of 3

February 2, 2012 by Jared Seah
OK, let’s skip the pleasantries (or foreplay) and jump right into it! Technical Analysis Traders who practice this analytical approach believe in the 3 holy grails of: a)    Price b)    Volume c)    Time Using different permutations of the above 2 or 3 holy grails, a whole plethora of indicators are invented. Some more “voodoo” than [...]
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The disconnect between asset prices and fundamentals

February 2, 2012 by SGDividends
It is weird how asset prices can be so disconnected from the current state of the world economy. If one is to look at the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) which is a good reflection of 2 factors: supply of ships and state of economy ( hence the demand of ships), it is amazing to see how [...]
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LMIR: A slow and steady climb.

February 2, 2012 by AK71
LMIR’s unit price has been slowly and steadily climbing higher and this is netting me some handsome capital gains on the rights units from nil paid rights purchased not too long ago. Remember I mentioned that LMIR was too cheap to sell? I still think it is too cheap to sell but it is approaching the fair value of [...]
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S&P still maintaining its uptrend.

February 2, 2012 by mmltrader
S&P still maintaining its uptrend, going strong….
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NOL Update

February 2, 2012 by angel*
NOL 1st highlighted on 7 Dec 2011 (price $1.17), 2nd highlighted on 4 Jan 2012 here (price $1.23). Today, 2 Feb 2012, price is already above $1.40. When I highlighted this stock I received many emails saying that this (NOL) is one of the WORST performing stocks. I totally agree, and that is why I chose [...]
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