The stock market, S&P 500 is now at bear territory. That means that a bear territory means when the index falls by more than 20%. However, many blue chips stocks have actually fallen much more than 20%. There are two ways you can react to this news, you can run and hide or you can ask yourself whether is this an opportunity to take advantage of the situation. You know, most people actually run … [Read more...]
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Why Vanguard Fund Investors Underperformed The Fund Significantly?
Over the years, there have been significantly more and more funds that mirror after the index such as Exchange Traded Funds. If you research the internet, you’ll find countless articles, blogs and forum pages advocating the use of index funds. I had previously suggested to consider using Vanguard funds (that article can be found here: Vanguard funds in Singapore at just US$ … [Read more...]
Why You Always BUY HIGH In Investments?
One of the most common feedback I hear is this, “Wilfred, I always lose money in investments. I have no luck.” OR “Wilfred, I have invested with many financial advisers and I always lose money.” Sounds familiar? What are the reasons why investors lose money? Let me relate to you a story. Mr Tan (not his real name), invested with me in 2007. At that time, the Singapore economy and … [Read more...]
How You Can Do Long-term Rebalancing With This Simple Method
In the previous blog HERE, I wrote about using 4 simple criteria to select stocks and then just do your buy own strategy. In this article, I did a modification. Instead of buy and hold, you rebalance every year and the purpose of rebalancing is to find stocks that meet the same criteria and then rebalance them into equal weightage. If you do this annual exercise, the chart shows that the … [Read more...]
How You Can Buy & Hold Stock Investment Using Simple Criterions!
There are two ways to invest in stocks. One is long term value investing through fundamental analysis, and the other way is short term trading through technical analysis. If you are doing fundamental analysis, you must do research in the company, analyse the company and study the company. This is both tedious and time consuming. If you are doing trading, you have to monitor the stocks prices … [Read more...]
Why growth stocks are better than value stocks
Here is an interview with Wilfred Ling … [Read more...]
First Bitcoin ETF and what you should know
The BITCOIN STRATEGY ETF was just launched on the 18th of October 2021. Before anyone jumps in the bandwagon to buy this ETF. There is something you need to know. The ETF offers a convenient way to gain exposure to Bitcoins. It is available from any traditional stock brokerage platform. However, the BITCOIN STRATEGY ETF does NOT invests in Bitcoin. It invests in futures contracts. So, … [Read more...]
Important Financial 101 for Professionals
What You Will Learn: 1) Different forms of Income & why most passive income isn’t really passive? 2) Different forms of expenses and how to prevent your expenses from going up? 3) Different types of assets and how much should you allocate to investments? 4) Different forms of liabilities and what are the two hidden liabilities everyone has? 5) Financially free and retirement and … [Read more...]
Think small, remains small. Think big, achieve big things
Read the below mentioned article on what these students did when they were given an assignment of growing $5 in just two hours. You will be shocked on the creativity these students had. If the students had focus on the small initial capital, they would never be able to make 4000% within 2 hours. Instead, they thought out of the box and saw the big picture. Very often, we focus on what is … [Read more...]
6 rules of investing
Here is a youtube video on 6 rules in investing. https://youtu.be/y-jBPlyJR_4 For those who don't have 10 mins to watch the video, let me summarise for you: Rule 1 Be a shameless cloner. That means follow the investment of top investors. (My comment: The method of following 13F fillings is interesting. However, we will miss out smaller companies as many large institution investors are … [Read more...]
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