Category: Finance Smiths

Happy New Year everyone! It has been a busy time of Christmas and New Year celebrations since I’m on leave. I did manage to get some rest in between and it has been a nice long break away from work. From next week onwards in the new year, I shoul…

I cleared up the remainder of my urgent work and put the rest on hold last week. Because I’m going on a long 2 weeks leave away from work. Nice to take a break and wind down for the rest of the year. I have been going out more here and there with…

It has been an eventful few days as I sold off all of my bond ETF holdings to raise cash to buy the dip in stock and crypto markets. I went in on a wide range of Chinese and US tech stocks, Ark ETFs and mid to large cap cryptos. There has been a reboun…

I have been busy in the past few days using up my cash to buy the dip in the stock markets, both on individual stocks and global ETFs. The fall in the markets is due to concerns over the omicron variant of the Covid virus and its dampening effects on t…

I decided to sell my SPH shares and not wait for the outcome of the Cuscaden and Keppel bids. The prices of Cryptos, Alibaba, Disney, PayPal, ARKG and Dairy Farm had dipped below my last purchase prices and it was time to buy in. But my lack of cash ev…

The cryptos market has picked up so I stopped the manual purchases on my Crypto.com account in the various cryptos I have decided to take positions in. Just going to be patient and wait for the next dip before I commit more cash funds into cryptos. The…

This is how volatile the cryptos market is. Just last week, I was writing about watching my crypto holdings on Hodlnaut (BTC and ETH) and Cake DeFi (DFI) hit new highs. Even my regular purchases on Crypto.com (LINK, LUNA, DOT, SOL and MATIC) were also …

I took the day off today and it’s nice to have a long weekend. In fact, I’m clearing my leave every Fri from this week onwards until mid Dec where I will be off on leave until end Dec. Nov to Dec is my wind-down period of the year where I g…

I’m happy that Singapore is easing some of the Covid rules from Wed 10 Nov onwards. Mainly on allowing up to 5 fully vaccinated members of the same household to dine out at F&B establishments. It’s not a big step forward but I’m g…

We are celebrating our son’s 2nd birthday this weekend with our families and took tomorrow off to have a long weekend. Nice to take a break from work though I wouldn’t call it much of a rest and recharge. Mostly because we still have to loo…