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All About Price: Bottom Fishing
By The Bedokian Portfolio  •  June 19, 2022
This is part of my intermittent series on price, one of the most important and commonly encountered considerations in investing and trading. For this post, I will talk about what almost everyone has in their minds now: bottom fishing. 

Let us go back to the period of February to March 2020; both the Straits Times Index (STI) and S&P 500 had dropped around 20-ish percent, and you were wondering if the said indices would go down further. Assuming that you had held their respective exchange traded funds (ETFs) and wanted to add more, it would be natural to get them at the lowest price before they head upwards to recovery.

 

If you had bought into them on the day it went to the lowest (29 Mar 2020 for STI and 15 Mar 2020 for S&P 500, based off the graphs on Yahoo Finance), congratulations, but then my next question

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By The Bedokian Portfolio
My first encounter with the financial markets started in the aftermath of the 2008/2009 Global Financial Crisis. Before this, I had no notion of what investment and trading were, although I had learned about economics, business management and accounting back in my university studies. I was a trader when I first started, albeit an amateurish one, and trading was just a side hobby of mine ...
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