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Reader:
Good afternoon AK.
I remembered vividly the first stock I bought in 2009, Golden Agriculture. I bought 20 lots at 41cents and sold them away at 47cents. I made a profit of more than 1k and I was delighted.
Subsequently, I bought/sold a lot more other counters which also gave me profit. I did contra trading too.
I was basically following my *husband blindly in buying and selling penny stocks which were recommended by him or his friends.
*he is a penny stock chaser till today, hence I always tell him he is contributing money to our government through SGX
As time went by, I became more daring in buying without preparing or having the money to pay when the trades were due for payment.
Not knowing even about basic TA, hence very often, I bought at the peak and got stuck. Greed is another reason as over the years, I should have a chance to sell away some of the stocks but I didn't.
To date, I have lost more than 100k and still holding on to a few stocks with losses that are too great to cut. (losses of more than 85%!)
ICI
AK:
Hi ICI,
There are many schools out there. I invest primarily for income. So, I have my own style.
We have to find out over time what works for us, what we are most comfortable with. Psychology is important too.
I will say don't be in a hurry to plonk money in the stock market. Learn as much as you can first.
Best wishes,
AK
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If we wish to trade more than invest, we should pick up TA. See related post #3 below for some recommended books.
Now, do you remember what AK likes to do? Yes, AK likes to eat bread with ink slowly.
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6 comments:
the hubby is not contributing $ to the government via SGX. there is another individual who is gaining on his expense via the SGX's trading platform.
It's interesting to find quite a number of people mentioning/blaming the government for almost everything that goes wrong in Singapore. People have to take responsibility before they can be successful and happy.
Its a zero sum game. Someone lost 100K in stocks, another would have gain another 100K. :)
They lose when they were traders without stoploss and without position sizing.
interesting, one of my early SG investment is also Golden Agri which i got thru IPO placement, and then I lose about 30% from that counter; it turned out to be a good lesson to me from retrospective angle.
Reader:
Technical analysis..... my gosh! I cannot understand these concepts.
In my most honest answer. i can never understand TA.
Tried n died.
AK:
If you want something bad enough, you will learn to do it 😉
If you give up, then, it is probably not important enough to you 😉
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