Ah, the usual New year new me season is here.So you gonna go to the gym?you gonna save more money?Great, do you have a plan? I know a friend who is like“I wanna buy a house in 5 years”but no actions were made, not even plans.Day after day he went home to play mobile legends […]
Should You Buy the Dip or Just Hold?
Who would win?: Buy The Dip vs Dollar Cost Averaging vs Lumpsum Investing Whether you are an experienced investor or just starting out,you will see people talking about buy the dip vs dollar cost averaging. “Investor” will sell you the idea about how time in the market beats timing the market.“Speculator” will sell you the […]
Is Unit Trust Agent Still Relevant in 2021?
It is near the end of 2021 when I am writing this article.The advance of technology had enabled many low cost trading/investment platformEven for the old school unit trust industry,there are platforms like fundsupermart and eunittrust to buy unit trust at lower fees. The last article we discussed how unit trust on average outperform their […]
Is Unit Trust a Good Investment? An Analysis
Asset management industry is nothing new in Malaysia,there are easily more than 10 asset management companies that offer mutual funds or unit trust. As a savvy investor, I have read from a lot of placesthat you are better of invest on your own. Because markets are generally efficient,it is hard for fund managers to consistently […]
Consensus Mechanism in Blockchain
What and Why Do We Need Consensus Mechanism? If you are reading this you probably knew that transactions are stored in blocks chained together in cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrencies are known to be “Decentralized”, so this leads to a problem.Unlike banks which are central authority to validate and store all transactions, in cryptocurrency, 1) How do we […]
Diversification is for Idiots
Warren Buffett says… Diversification is for Idiots I have seen a lot of gurus and market experts advocatingyou should focus your ammunition on 2-3 stocks that you know really well. They claim that retail investors don’t have the capability to own so much stocks and limited time to do research on companies. Even Malaysian stock […]
Should You Cut Your Losses?
Every successful trader is disciplined,this is a quote that trader/investor had heard for too many times. Every successful trade should have a plan to enter, plan to exit and cut loss, cut loss is a risk management technique,it can theoretically prevent your losses from getting worse. Today we are going to see if cut loss […]
How Effective is Bollinger Bands in KLSE?
Trading with Bollinger Bands Bollinger Bands is a common strategy used by tradersI like the mathematical nature of this strategy,using a smooth moving average line, and make a “band”of n standard deviations (usually 2) away from the line. This kinds of remind me of the mathematics of normal distribution curve.I am not covering the mathematics […]
How Effective is Moving Average Strategy in KLSE?
Moving Average Strategy Moving average strategy is a common strategy used by traders. Unlike some of the more exotic indicators,moving average readily available in many charting software or website such as klsescreener or tradingview One common usage of moving average is that,when the “fast” moving average goes above the “slow” moving average,we buy in,when the […]
How I found the most profitable month in Bursa using Python.
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 […]
