This is something that I have observed: investors’ confidence in their stocks wavers with the price movements. If prices are going up, they feel very confident about their picks. When prices are going down, they...
Judging an investment based on its past average returns is a dangerous thing. It gives us a false sense of what the future might bring. It is not just that ‘historical returns are not indicative of future...
The finance industry likes to remind clients that ‘time in the market’ is more important than ‘timing the market’. This is one of the dangerous half truths that harms investors when taken out of...
Bitcoin (BTC) has crashed 30% in the last week. It makes the drop in US stocks look weak. BTC has reached a peak of $67,567 on 8 Nov 2021 and has since tanked by 67%. Mind you that this is the iconic crypto that many...
Many young, fast-growing companies have managed to list on the stock market in recent years. What used to be exclusive to venture capitalists have now been tradable by retail investors. But investors are not used to...
I observed a few patterns among the richest in Singapore across generations. The first generation got rich from commodities although they eventually branched out to other businesses and formed conglomerates. Tan Kah Kee...
There is no one strategy that always outperforms. Be it growth, value or any other strategies you have used or have heard of, do not outperform all the time. Growth has done very well for a handful of years, probably...
We don’t trade the markets, we trade our beliefs about the markets. A good quote from Van Tharp. It is very true as we know there are many different investing or trading strategies out there. Some believe buying...
Returns-focused + High Interest. This is the group of investors who are lured by the promise of life-changing returns in the markets (it could be any market – stocks, options, cryptos). They don’t mind...
