Peter Lynch’s Rule of Thumb in Investing

January 10, 2012

I found this on Wikipedia and it is worth archiving: Market cap Market capitalization less than $5 billion – Lynch generally avoids large, well-known companies in favor of small-cap stocks that still contain significant upside potential. Most fund managers define small-caps as companies with market capitalizations under $1 billion. Institutional investors often use market one [...]

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Secrets of Singapore Trading Gurus vs Secrets of Highly Profitable Traders

January 8, 2012

People who frequent the bookstores would know that besides my book, “Secrets of Singapore Trading Gurus”, there is a similar book, “Secrets of Highly Profitable Traders” by Chin Yong Sak. Before these two books, there were no books on the interviews with Singapore traders. Probably that was the gap that Yong Sak saw. You can [...]

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Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis

January 4, 2012

Liar’s Poker is a book about Michael Lewis’s (author of the book) experience working in the once prestigious  Salomon Brothers investment bank. He gave an insight into the internal workings, tension and ugly side of the firm. I shall pick out the useful and amusing things from the book. Interview for an investment banker job [...]

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Investment & Trading Report Card – Dec 11 and Year 2011

January 1, 2012

2011 has been a tough year to trade, especially for trend following strategies. Post August 2011, the market has been volatile with no clear indication of direction. Only Dow Jones closed the year on a slightly positive note while the rest of the European and Asian indices were negative. Equity Markets +4.49% (Dow Jones Industrial [...]

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Top 10 Favorites of BigFatPurse 2011

December 27, 2011

Here is the list of 10 BigFatPurse posts most viewed in 2011! Thank you for the support and I wish you a great 2012 ahead! Play CASHFLOW Game Online! How to buy Singapore Government Bonds? How did I open a Silver Savings Account with UOB How to buy silver? Straits Times Index Exchange Traded Fund [...]

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10 things I learned about life in 2011

December 25, 2011

We have come to the final week of 2011 and I have 10 things to share about life: 1) I have everything I need Looking at the things I have, I can conclude that I have everything that I need. Humans do not need a lot of things to survive. To survive is not difficult [...]

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Earned almost $400k from investing – Sam Goh of Wisdom Capital

December 20, 2011

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Alvin: Welcome everyone, welcome to the first video interview I am doing on BigFatPurse.com. My guest today is Sam Goh, a young and promising investor, who started Wisdom Capital at the age of 22. He is still studying in SMU by the way. Despite his age, he has [...]

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T3B Forex Gathering – 17 Dec 11

December 18, 2011

Clarence called for a year end gathering to introduce passive income strategies for short term volatility and long term stability. It may sound grand and good. In actual fact, he meant an automated forex trading system and land banking. Algojunction Algojunction was started in Sep 11 and had performed very well for the past few [...]

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MasterYourFinance.com Investing Mentor Session – 12 Dec 11

December 13, 2011

I have the privilege to conduct the mentor session on 12 Dec 11. For the first part, I shared about the book that I wrote, “Secrets of Singapore Trading Gurus”. There are many good points mentioned in the book but I will only highlight one secret from each trader. Someone in the audience has requested [...]

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