First of all, please don't get me wrong. Singapore is my home and I love Singapore. What I am referring here is just the stock market itself. Like many others, I started off my first investment in the home market. I was not sure what I was doing at that time; in fact, I am still not 100% sure now too (i.e. we should always be humble and be prepared that we may be wrong). I recall that my first few investments in the home market are mostly the blue-chip companies such as Keppel (SGX: BN4), Sembcorp Industries (SGX: U96), SingTel (SGX: Z74), ST Engineering (SGX: S63) and other more "adventurous" stocks at that time. And it was a pretty plain vanilla strategy (i.e. buy and hold). To be fair, this strategy served me well at that time; I just need to hold them and reinvest my new capital to grow my portfolio over time....