The mysterious “Window Dressing” I knowThis is a crazy idea, why would there be difference in returns among months? But stay with me,after around 5 years in the market, I have heard a lot of news and rumours,about which season/month is more bullish. One of the example is the infamous phenomena we called “Window dressing”,where […]
Category: Quant Analysis
A Monte Carlo Simulation of your Retirement Planning 💵💵
Intuition There are countless people who planned their retirement by saving a monthly sum and investing it into the stock market 📈📈📈. There are also plenty of investment gurus advocating this investment strategy that is known as “Passive Investment”, which means you do not try to time the market, but rather you invest periodically no […]
Portfolio Construction. Full Equity, Full Bond or 50/50?
Introduction People often equates return and risk, giving statements like “high risk high return”. If high risk does secure you high return, is the investment considered high risk anymore? I find Howard Marks return vs risk graph a nice way to visualize risk. According to him, the higher the risk, the more variability your return […]
RM300 a month for 10 years?
Introduction Dollar cost averaging is a systematic strategy that allows you to buy more when price is cheap, buy less when price is high. This is a popular strategy among stock investors as well as mutual fund investors. In the long run your average buying price will be very favourable because you bought more when […]
Is Stock Picking Based on PE Useful?
Whether it’s PE, ROE, DY there are tons of financial jargon and financial ratios out there. The value investors emphasize on buying cheap (low PE, PB), while growth investors focus on buying stocks with high growth (high ROE etc). How do we know which ratio is the most useful to find out potentially profitable stocks? […]
Is Candlestick Pattern Effective in Bursa Malaysia?
Intro I assume that you already knew the anatomy of a candlestick so I will skip the explanation part. There are dozens of candlestick pattern out there, be it bullish or bearish ones, what we wanted to know is that can we used them reliably in our investing and trading activities. Methodology – Skip this […]
