Saturday, August 30, 2008
National slogan ?
Want to make some quick money ?
Do this fast:
Print T-shirts with these words
LET'S MOVE ON
in bold coloured letters,
for sale.
It could become our national slogan !
Print T-shirts with these words
LET'S MOVE ON
in bold coloured letters,
for sale.
It could become our national slogan !
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
The NOISE in Make Money on the Stock Market
The Sound of Money.
Making money here depends on one main event, on the mood in the market, that is, on whether people are willing to pay more for the share than what one has paid for. A share has really little value until someone is willing to exchange it for a certain amount of money.
In a bullish market, people are ready to pay a higher price than a previous buyer to own the share. Reversely in a bearish market people are ready to sell a share at a lower price than the previous seller to be rid of it. The value of a share can thus fluctuate sharply depending on the sentiment of the buyers and sellers in the market. There is always a battle going on between the bulls and the bears, and this battle can be subdued and quiet or hectic and violent, creating an atmosphere of noises.
This noise is a reflection of the sentiments in the market, and it pervades the whole market, being carried by the media, the investors and anybody who is interested in the market. It thus holds the key to make money. Knowing the sentiments of the investors is a way above all the various instruments investors are using to determine the trend of the market. If one is attuned to the noise one can sense the sentiments.
Noises can be observed. When sales-girls and sales-men become indifferent to making a sale, noise is evident. When club memberships are changing hands at higher prices, noises reverberate. Properties being transacted at higher and higher prices is noise getting louder and louder. When trishaw riders, men in singlets, and people in chakeahs or slippers, entered the market these were very loud noises.Making money here depends on one main event, on the mood in the market, that is, on whether people are willing to pay more for the share than what one has paid for. A share has really little value until someone is willing to exchange it for a certain amount of money.
In a bullish market, people are ready to pay a higher price than a previous buyer to own the share. Reversely in a bearish market people are ready to sell a share at a lower price than the previous seller to be rid of it. The value of a share can thus fluctuate sharply depending on the sentiment of the buyers and sellers in the market. There is always a battle going on between the bulls and the bears, and this battle can be subdued and quiet or hectic and violent, creating an atmosphere of noises.
The noise was in the library when a lady said into her handphone that she had just let go her DBS shares. Noise rises when everybody talks about the stock market at wet markets, food courts and gatherings. When security analysts are recommending a buy on the non significant stocks it is akin to a trumpet blast at its highest volume. When all the various media are predicting how great the boom will rise, that smells like a volcano erupting deafeningly. This noise also applies when all the various media are reporting nothing but doom and gloom. Usually when this hot noise prevails unanimously, the market is reaching its zenith, or when the noise proclaims the death knell of the market, it is plummeting to its nadir.
A trend in the bull market will prolong only when there are greater heroes receiving the heavier and heavier baton to pass it on. Reversely, a trend in the bear market will continue when people keep salvaging from what shares they own regardless.
Being able to listen to the noises helps one to stay on course or pass the musical parcel before the music stops, or avoid catching the falling knife despite the tempting prices.
Noises spring forth from the sentiments of the market as sentiments drive the market.
Catch the noise and ride the sentiments and U1nomore.
WatmoI1
Ron
WatmoI1
Ron
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Population problem Singapore
Solving a problem with a problem.
The crux of the problem is babies, not enough babies being born. There is another problem, unwanted pregnancies, ending in abortions. Every day babies are being born; every day fetuses are being aborted; there is a shortage of babies. This is the state of the whole affair.
Putting the two problems together, it does tell us that one problem is the solution to the other ? Perhaps this is not apparent to adults who tend to see problems together as a bigger problem. Maybe to people without prejudice there is a simple solution.
There is a technique taught in management courses known as lateral thinking, and this technique often leads to a simple solution of problems which appear complex and difficult.
Supposing these problems were posed to a group of young orphans, it is my imagination that, being innocent as they are, they would offer a solution, perhaps like this:
1. Do not allow the abortions.
2. Provide a way out for the mothers to be, and take care of them.
3..Nurture the pregnancies and let the babies be born.
4. Set up a department to take care of these babies, they are citizens.
5. Appoint foster parents to provide them a family environment.
6. Allow the mothers to take the babies back when they are able and if they want to.
7. Provide for these citizens up to their full potential to adulthood.
8. Where there is a will there is a way, fighters are not quitters.
Does this not make sense, stalling one problem to negate the other.
This is not a joke, it will work.
The pregnancies have been, are, and will be, there always;
let the fetuses survive, and there will be no more baby shortage.
Ron
The crux of the problem is babies, not enough babies being born. There is another problem, unwanted pregnancies, ending in abortions. Every day babies are being born; every day fetuses are being aborted; there is a shortage of babies. This is the state of the whole affair.
Putting the two problems together, it does tell us that one problem is the solution to the other ? Perhaps this is not apparent to adults who tend to see problems together as a bigger problem. Maybe to people without prejudice there is a simple solution.
There is a technique taught in management courses known as lateral thinking, and this technique often leads to a simple solution of problems which appear complex and difficult.
Supposing these problems were posed to a group of young orphans, it is my imagination that, being innocent as they are, they would offer a solution, perhaps like this:
1. Do not allow the abortions.
2. Provide a way out for the mothers to be, and take care of them.
3..Nurture the pregnancies and let the babies be born.
4. Set up a department to take care of these babies, they are citizens.
5. Appoint foster parents to provide them a family environment.
6. Allow the mothers to take the babies back when they are able and if they want to.
7. Provide for these citizens up to their full potential to adulthood.
8. Where there is a will there is a way, fighters are not quitters.
Does this not make sense, stalling one problem to negate the other.
This is not a joke, it will work.
The pregnancies have been, are, and will be, there always;
let the fetuses survive, and there will be no more baby shortage.
Ron
Monday, August 11, 2008
The WHEN in Make Money on the Stock Market
Knowing rightly WHEN to BUY and WHEN to SELL makes one a rich man.
Every body wants to make money; many people know how to make money, but less people actually make money, because many more people know not how not to lose money. That explains why more people lose money than those who make money. Money is only made when an investor sells his shares for more than what he pays for them, that is, the returns exceeds the costs of the shares.
The paramount strategy to make money is to get others to lose money, a principle that is this simple. It is said that a fish will not get caught if it does not open its mouth to take the bait, and this baiting tactic is so evidently employed in the stock market all the time.
When a company makes profits it attracts attention, and when it shows its potential to make humongous profit in the future, it draws investors like ants to sugar; the reverse applies oppositely. This is fair if the company's intrinsic quality is as real as it appears, but this is very hard to tell, because lemons can sometimes be made to look like oranges. Suffice it to say, only those who have intimate knowledge of the company really know its true worth, all others know it by its propaganda. So, what do people really get for what they pay for; if it turns out fair they gain, if not they lose.
To make money is a perpetual lure, and all sorts of instruments are theorised and employed to enable people to spy and snoop on the ones who are truly privy to the knowledge, and also on those who start the propaganda, on the basis that whether the news is true or not the attraction will be about as equal as the true one. To be useful the gain of this knowledge needs to be as near as possible to the source, just like that the nearer the ripple is to its cause is the more powerful than the outer ones. Being ahead gives one the advantage and a bigger scope for action.
One of the most widely used instrument is called TA or Technical Analysis. TA identifies tell tail signs, a means for investors to know that something is afoot when a company's shares get under action. The most significant sign is the large Volume of transaction, large volume signifies more commitment. Only people who know will commit heavily. Within TA there are other indicators like Strength and Momentum, each having its literal significance. Strength suggests power, and Momentum suggests continued action. To augment these indicators there is Trendline which depicts the direction of the move. Another tool of TA is the charting of Candlesticks which records the status of transactions by the day. All these TA provide the TA expert a clear trail to get a step behind the initiator of a share price movement.
WatmoU1, when one knows the direction, the strength, the momentum and the scale of the movement of the share price of a company; that is what TA can reveal.
While TA highlights the footprints of the movements of share price, there is FA or Fundamental Analysis which is the study of the basic characteristics of the company, and VA or Value Analysis which pries and dissects the company to determine its intrinsic value. With FA, VA and TA, one is armed with the knowledge of the characteristics of a company, its value and the dynamics of the battle of the bulls and the bears. And over all these, if one uses LA or Logical Analysis, which skill one must possess, one can seize the situation when the opportunity arises; and that is the WHEN to BUY or to SELL.
After all this, is there a certainty that money can be made. Surely there is, but whether one will will depend on what one can do, will do, and does. However, there is a certainty that more people will lose than those will make. The Pareto principle will prevail.
When one does not lose that is good enough.
Ron
Every body wants to make money; many people know how to make money, but less people actually make money, because many more people know not how not to lose money. That explains why more people lose money than those who make money. Money is only made when an investor sells his shares for more than what he pays for them, that is, the returns exceeds the costs of the shares.
The paramount strategy to make money is to get others to lose money, a principle that is this simple. It is said that a fish will not get caught if it does not open its mouth to take the bait, and this baiting tactic is so evidently employed in the stock market all the time.
When a company makes profits it attracts attention, and when it shows its potential to make humongous profit in the future, it draws investors like ants to sugar; the reverse applies oppositely. This is fair if the company's intrinsic quality is as real as it appears, but this is very hard to tell, because lemons can sometimes be made to look like oranges. Suffice it to say, only those who have intimate knowledge of the company really know its true worth, all others know it by its propaganda. So, what do people really get for what they pay for; if it turns out fair they gain, if not they lose.
One of the most widely used instrument is called TA or Technical Analysis. TA identifies tell tail signs, a means for investors to know that something is afoot when a company's shares get under action. The most significant sign is the large Volume of transaction, large volume signifies more commitment. Only people who know will commit heavily. Within TA there are other indicators like Strength and Momentum, each having its literal significance. Strength suggests power, and Momentum suggests continued action. To augment these indicators there is Trendline which depicts the direction of the move. Another tool of TA is the charting of Candlesticks which records the status of transactions by the day. All these TA provide the TA expert a clear trail to get a step behind the initiator of a share price movement.
WatmoU1, when one knows the direction, the strength, the momentum and the scale of the movement of the share price of a company; that is what TA can reveal.
While TA highlights the footprints of the movements of share price, there is FA or Fundamental Analysis which is the study of the basic characteristics of the company, and VA or Value Analysis which pries and dissects the company to determine its intrinsic value. With FA, VA and TA, one is armed with the knowledge of the characteristics of a company, its value and the dynamics of the battle of the bulls and the bears. And over all these, if one uses LA or Logical Analysis, which skill one must possess, one can seize the situation when the opportunity arises; and that is the WHEN to BUY or to SELL.
After all this, is there a certainty that money can be made. Surely there is, but whether one will will depend on what one can do, will do, and does. However, there is a certainty that more people will lose than those will make. The Pareto principle will prevail.
When one does not lose that is good enough.
Ron
Friday, August 08, 2008
The ABCs in Make Money on the Stock Market
Hi, a little elaboration on the above.
What are Alligators, Buayas, Crocodiles and Sharks doing here ?
OK, here's how they fit in !
Alligators: Accountants at times are so creative that one can miss an inch by a mile reading their company reports. They can so colour up the company's situation better than a mortician at his best, turning a losing company to show a profit.
Buayas: These Big timers will borrow your shares paying you a fee, and then sell down this company's shares to so low that when they return them to you your shares are worth very very much less. You are led to gain a small fee to destroy your own shares worth.
Crocodiles: There are Corporate directors who sell their own shares when the company is doing its buyback in the market. They also do insider buys in little drips and draps to show their faith in the company, but then release the whole lot in one go very subtly.
Sharks: These Security analysts do their takes on companies and then say buy or outperform but never tell you to sell. They even tell you to buy up to a target price. At the worse of times when these companies are sick they tell you to hold, seldom to sell.
Besides all these shenanigans, there are the A G Spanners, Bernankuays, C F Officers, Smart Money people, and their do alikes. Enough ?
Anyone who believes these people work to help other people gain wealth please raise his hand ! Keeping a sharp watch on the ABCs well will help one keep one's money.
Have a nice day
Ron
What are Alligators, Buayas, Crocodiles and Sharks doing here ?
OK, here's how they fit in !
Alligators: Accountants at times are so creative that one can miss an inch by a mile reading their company reports. They can so colour up the company's situation better than a mortician at his best, turning a losing company to show a profit.
Buayas: These Big timers will borrow your shares paying you a fee, and then sell down this company's shares to so low that when they return them to you your shares are worth very very much less. You are led to gain a small fee to destroy your own shares worth.
Crocodiles: There are Corporate directors who sell their own shares when the company is doing its buyback in the market. They also do insider buys in little drips and draps to show their faith in the company, but then release the whole lot in one go very subtly.
Sharks: These Security analysts do their takes on companies and then say buy or outperform but never tell you to sell. They even tell you to buy up to a target price. At the worse of times when these companies are sick they tell you to hold, seldom to sell.
Besides all these shenanigans, there are the A G Spanners, Bernankuays, C F Officers, Smart Money people, and their do alikes. Enough ?
Anyone who believes these people work to help other people gain wealth please raise his hand ! Keeping a sharp watch on the ABCs well will help one keep one's money.
Have a nice day
Ron
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Make Money on the Stock Exchange
Want Money ?,
There are ways to make money on the Stock Exchange, and the surefire ways are:
1. Buy and sell higher
2. Sell your shares and buy lower
3. Buy and keep your shares and receive fat dividends
4. Buy some sell some, sell some buy some.
5. Buy and hold till it pays, maximum 30 years.
These are proven methods, and some investors do this all the time.
There is this Pareto principle about 20% and 80% that applies to a good number of activities, but in this case the number of people who do make money are less than 20%, much much less, while the rest contribute to these. So, another fact is that to make money, investors must not do like the majority do, but rather stand on and believe in their own conviction and act according to that.
One big fat grandmother rule to remember is that this industry supports a great number of highly paid participants, insiders, manipulators and rumourmongers, and their income come from investors. Along the way there are always hidden Alligators, crouching Buayas, menacing Crocodiles and circling Sharks. So, know your ABCs.
In this game, investors pass their money to these people and at the same time try to make money out of the system playing their game. Anyone still savvy and shrewd enough to want to make money here ?
About Pareto principle:
Business management thinker, Joseph M. Juran, suggested the principle and named it after Italian economist, Vilfredo Pareto, who observed that 80% of income in Italy went to 20% of the population.
Have a nice day.
Ron
There are ways to make money on the Stock Exchange, and the surefire ways are:
1. Buy and sell higher
2. Sell your shares and buy lower
3. Buy and keep your shares and receive fat dividends
5. Buy and hold till it pays, maximum 30 years.
These are proven methods, and some investors do this all the time.
There is this Pareto principle about 20% and 80% that applies to a good number of activities, but in this case the number of people who do make money are less than 20%, much much less, while the rest contribute to these. So, another fact is that to make money, investors must not do like the majority do, but rather stand on and believe in their own conviction and act according to that.
One big fat grandmother rule to remember is that this industry supports a great number of highly paid participants, insiders, manipulators and rumourmongers, and their income come from investors. Along the way there are always hidden Alligators, crouching Buayas, menacing Crocodiles and circling Sharks. So, know your ABCs.
In this game, investors pass their money to these people and at the same time try to make money out of the system playing their game. Anyone still savvy and shrewd enough to want to make money here ?
About Pareto principle:
Business management thinker, Joseph M. Juran, suggested the principle and named it after Italian economist, Vilfredo Pareto, who observed that 80% of income in Italy went to 20% of the population.
Have a nice day.
Ron
Friday, August 01, 2008
Meaning of Sarkhar
Hi, a little trivial
Since schooldays my understanding of the meaning of Sarkhar (Teochew dialect)
was to carry balls (I studied in an English school).
Well, actually Sarkhar also means the third leg, and more,
like the walking stick that props up a person,
whatever his or her condition.
This realization came about like this,
when a fella said to his companion,
"You are quite good at carrying your boss's balls,
but you know, if you try harder,
you might be able to add a fourth one and walk like a dog."
I may know something quite fast,
but sometimes,
it took me a longer time to understand its meaning,
ha ha ha ha ha.
Ron
Since schooldays my understanding of the meaning of Sarkhar (Teochew dialect)
was to carry balls (I studied in an English school).
Well, actually Sarkhar also means the third leg, and more,
like the walking stick that props up a person,
whatever his or her condition.
This realization came about like this,
when a fella said to his companion,
"You are quite good at carrying your boss's balls,
but you know, if you try harder,
you might be able to add a fourth one and walk like a dog."
I may know something quite fast,
but sometimes,
it took me a longer time to understand its meaning,
ha ha ha ha ha.
Ron
