The love-hate relationship between me and Sembcorp Industries (SGX:U96) officially ends today.  I sold off my paltry 2,400 shares of Sembcorp Industries at $5.38. In 2015, after switching from a trader to become a novice investor, the first stock on SGX I picked and nibbled was Sembcorp Industries (SCI). My purchases were 800 shares at $4.18 on 24 Feb 2015, 700 shares at $4.77 on 22 Apr 2015 and 900 shares at $3.15 on 2 Dec 2015. The average holding cost was around $4.00. I made full use of the $10 odd lot (<1000 shares) brokerage promotion after I opened my POEMS account with Philips Securities. That decision was made after attending many seminars, read many books on value investing, fundamental analysis and so on. At that time, I believed in the long term prospects of SCI as a global leading energy provision, utilities supply, waste...