Hi Folks, welcome back to Investment Income For Life! Grab a warm drink, sit down, and prepare to feel better about your own portfolio. Today, we are talking about everyone’s favourite psychological experiment masquerading as an e-commerce stock: Alibaba (HKEX: 9988). Alibaba has been a disaster for me as I am not back to square one and on hindsight, I should have sold off last year when it hit HKD 186 per share and then buy back last week...haha. :p

1. Alibaba and the Sub-100 Groundhog Day: How We Rallied to HKD 180 and Handed Back Every Single Dollar.

Let's take a quick trip down memory lane, shall we? Remember when Alibaba was stuck in the absolute doldrums for years, trading well below HKD 100? We agonized, we averaged down, and we prayed to the market gods. Then, the miracle happened. The stock took off like a rocket, tearing past the milestones all the way to a spectacular, glorious HKD 186 on October 3, 2025....