Recent news on the trial of the founders of the dodgy Sunshine Empire had highlighted to me the dangers of falling prey to scams and trickery, and also left me surprised as to how many people got caught in this web of deceit; with some experiencing an...
Topics: Featured, Personal Finance

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I like the simplicity of support and resistance. It can work because it is based on simple crowd psychology; but, sophisticated traders don’t like to admit it that it can work. Many Gurus have developed so many technical indicators, and every Guru...
Topics: Market Review and Trends

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To illustrate Pt 4 and 5 of the previous post, we look at a Singapore company: SMRT. As with railroads in other countries, SMRT is a kind of natural monopoly bcos the capital outlay is so intensive, no competitor can come in and build a similar...
Topics: Featured, Investing

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Sometimes you can rant about why there aren’t systematic trading stops on the SGX. These nifty perks enables u to get out with how much you want to lose. but in the case of my straits asia trade, you really hate it when u violated your stop loss.its a..
Topics: Active Trading

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I was interrupted yesterday morning with news that CIT Group, a commercial lender to hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized businesses in the US, filed for bankruptcy (Note CIT is not the same entity as CitiGroup) on Sunday.CITCIT’s bankruptcy.
Topics: Featured, Market Review and Trends

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