November 2016 archive

Running Singapore on Solar Power?

Telsa runs an entire island on solar power. Using 5328 solar panels and 60 Telsa Powerpacks, Ta’u, part of American Samoa, with less than 600 residents, now runs 100% using solar power. The battery packs can run for three days without sunlight. Isn’t this cool? It’s so cool to be able to run an island, …

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Is Investing an Art or a Science?

Is investing an art of a science? The short answer to this question would be both. If your investment approach is using fundamental analysis, you would need to read financial statements, know your ratios for example, ROE, gross margin, net margin, P/E, P/B etc. If your investment approach is using technical analysis, you would need …

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Professional Trading Strategies Seminar by CK Ee on 5 Nov 2016

I summarised some of the main points from the seminar by CK Ee. He mentioned that we need to understand that: We don’t trade the market. We trade or invest based on our beliefs. We should not listen to news too much when doing our investment. Just treat news as entertainment. Investing is a skill …

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Jon Jandai shares: Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard?

Inspiring video by Jon Jandai which make us rethink what are our priorities in life. Did we play a part in making our lives hard? Yes, sometimes we do make our own lives complicated. Of course, not everyone in every country would be able to build a house as and when they like it anywhere …

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How to Look for Investment Red Flags

How do we look for investment red flags? When we are doing company analysis, we want to pick the great stock that would help our money grow for us. This also means we need to know what companies we should not pick – those fraudulent companies or companies going downhill and moving towards bankruptcy. The …

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