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Time flies and we are in the last month of the year 2020 and
I think most of us (investors) are busy calculating how much passive income or
dividend we will be receiving in 2020. As we are still surrounded and suffered
from Covid-19 pandemic and just…
The stock market remains volatile and STI moving up and down
with range-bound between 2450-2550. With US Presidential Election and the
pending stimulus package from the US government & congress, the market just
moving up and down by following this news day by day, for me, it is just like
watching “Korean Drama” with popcorn ready.
Regardless of who is being elected as next US President, the
Yes !! we are all market timer, to some extent. Listen to below
video from Prof Aswath Damodaran on how he explains investors
using asset allocation to time the market, without we realizing it sometimes.We fully understand
that nobody can exactly pre…
Spoofing, Churning, Cornering, Ramping, Wash Trading, Bear
Raiding ….what else?
Market manipulation happens when
someone tries to rig the supply and demand of a particular stock or any type of security. It’s a tactic or scam that could lead …
We often
relate Index ETF as one of the asset class for “passive investing” and one of the main tenets of passive
investing is the strategy of long-term holdings and less active trading. Because
there are very infrequent buying and selling, fees ar…
Stocks Valuation: Art or Science?
This is an “old age “ question that pondered all of us as an
investor and question we hear from time to time. For me, I think stocks
valuation is both a science and an art. We often hear that analysts are tr…
Time flies, we have seen
a very volatile market while entering 4th Qtr of 2020, where the
tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite dropped nearly 6.2% (from the highest
point of 12,074 achieved on 2nd Sep 2020 ) its biggest percentage
declined since June 11. But …
Time flies, it has been almost 9 months since we registered the first case of Covid-19 in Singapore on 23 Jan 2020, the start of a chain of
events that would lead to unprecedented closures and restrictions of movement.
World economy suddenly halts an…
"WMD = Weapons Of Mass Destruction " !This might be the reason why Warren Buffett sold all his shares of GS( Goldman Sachs) and reducing his holding in JP Morgan in recent portfolio rebalancing.Warren Buffett still says derivatives are ‘weapons of mass destruction’ <source:Furtune.com>But why is he increasing his stake in BA ( Bank Of America )? This video may give you some ideas or clues.
We know that market move in cycles and in upwards trend in the long run, for the past 200 years. If you stretch the investment time horizon to a much longer period, you will see that every crisis was just a "blip" in time.
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Every crisis, be it caused by war, oil crisis, financial (sub-prime) or even current crisis of COVID 19 will pass
