Quick Lesson
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Sunday, February 4th, 2007It was in an article I read recently, that when asked what was the most powerful math formula known to him, Einstein said it was “Compounded Interest”. Indeed.
The basic idea is simple. For every return in terms of capital gain and dividends, you reinvest them, to see exponential growth.
Lets say you have $10,000 to begin […]
Reader’s Questions
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007My reader said
“Hey there Pehon,
I really like your blogsite, it’s really informative and succinct.I’ll continue to read from it regularly!Just hope you can maybe give me some advice on Wilmar.
I bought it at $2.82 earlier this month, and currently it’s been hovering at about $2.30 to $2.40 on a daily basis. I’ve invested x amount […]
Quick Lesson: What the Rich Does, and the Rest Don’t (part 2: Gambling?)
Sunday, January 28th, 2007One important factor that the rich sets themselves from normal investors, is the way the rich look at investing.
Normal investors have to understand that investing in shares should never be exciting. Define exciting? When you find yourself sitting infront of the live price stream, and find a drop of 2% too much to handle, such […]
Quick Lesson: What the Rich Does, and the Rest Don’t (part 1)
Saturday, January 27th, 2007Many people around me always whine about how the rich seem to get richer, and the poor just stays poor. And when I’m talking about poor people, I don’t just mean families or individuals that make less than $20,000 a year.
First of all, what makes an individual wealthy? By the car they drive? House? Monthly […]
Preview: Why do the rich get richer?
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007Ever wonder why does the upper echelon of wealthy people always seem to become richer?
What are they doing that lower and middle income people are not?
Find Out This Sunday
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Quick Lesson: Should I Buy and Hold?
Sunday, January 21st, 2007Most financial advisors will advising against contra trading or trading for the short term. They say that one should buy a fundamentally sound company and hold on to it, through thick and thin. However, I’ll like to show you the other side of the coin.
The problem with buying and holding is that you might not […]
Quick Lesson: Share Placement, the aftermath
Saturday, January 20th, 2007When I first started studying the stock market, it was my understanding that the more the issued shares, the more diluted the supply and demand effect will be. When my company, Raffles Education announced a 30,000,000 share placement, i was worried. I thought it would dilute the market. Whats more, the EPS will be much […]
Quick Lesson: Contra vs Cash
Saturday, January 20th, 2007There has been some people writing to me, telling me they have lost big money on contra.
Just like to send out a note to all readers that all my recommendations are not contra recommendations, but recommendations for the short (not contra short) to medium term.
And I’ve never had luck with contra. Everytime I do that, […]
Quick Lesson: P/E Ratio vs EPS Growth
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007Yesterday I recieved an E-Mail from a reader, asking me to review a particular company, whose P/E Ration is extremely low, but growth is almost not consistant.
I’m aware that most professional research companies use P/E Ratios to pick out undervalued stocks. I find it amazing how these reports put so much emphasis on P/E ratio, […]
Quick Lesson - "Free Floating" Shares
Monday, January 15th, 2007When you start off with trading stocks, you got to understand that the market, is simply put, a large scale demand and supply mechanism. When there is demand, and little supply, large price fluctuation occurs!
Raffles Education has to date issued 516,000,000++ shares.
http://www.listedcompany.com/ir/raffleseducation/web/show.cgi?content=shareholdings&integrate=1