One of the biggest dilemma that we are facing now is, when should be deploy our capital back into the market. The sensible response to that is, keep DCA-ing now because one can never successfully time the market. That’s especially true because who are we if professionals themselves can’t time the market correctly. Our cash …
So the market dived another 8-10% or so yesterday. Every retail investors is probably mass selling and taking profit off their positions now. There were reports that trading firms are overwhelmed and true enough, when I log into Vickers, I couldn’t even connect to my account. This truly is a once is a decade / …
One of an investor’s or trader’s worst nightmare happened to me earlier today, and is still happening now. As everyone probably know, the US is officially in the bear market now, with the market dropping more than 20% from the recent high. For Singapore, the index plunged from a high of 3281 in January to …
Looking at the market movement the past few days and weeks, we are slightly spooked by the atypical market movement, and are currently living in uncertain times now. If you hold any US equities, you would have noticed that the past few days, the S&P 500 as well as the NASDAQ have been swinging by …
Continue reading War Chest Planning And What We Are Doing During This Uncertain Time
So one of the biggest thing that happened earlier today was that, Malaysia’s prime minister has just announced that he will be resigning as the prime minister of Malaysia. The motives aside, the stock market of Malaysia reacted and fell to its 5 years low, the index fell below 1500 points for the first time …
Continue reading Geopolitical Risk In Malaysia Is Seriously Scaring Investors Away
One of the recent discussions I had with Mrs Budget was that, I should have held on to some of the stocks I bought when I started investing back in mid 2017. Back then, Mr Budget started off by looking at US equities. Some of the popular counters which I was looking at include NVIDIA, …
Recently, Mr Budget came across a discussion thread on Facebook which piqued my interest. The question goes: Does it matter if you're the girl and your starting salary is already $1000 more than what your partner is drawing and he's been working for a year already since he graduated from uni? Would it be a …
Continue reading Does It Matter If The Girl Earns More Than The Guy In A Relationship?
It seems like the talk of the town is the Wuhan virus. Our social media news feed is full of updates of the virus, be it an increase of new local cases in Singapore, or people overseas succumbing to the virus. We came across a great video explaining the virus and we highly recommend everyone …
Continue reading What We Think About The Wuhan Virus And The Stock Counters We Are Looking At
Recently Mr Budget came across an article and some pointers which is worth sharing - there is this trap called the When - Then Trap, which most of us are prone to fall into. Basically, most of us might think that when we achieve something, only then will we do what we always wanted to …
Continue reading The Dangerous When-Then Trap That We Never Knew We Might Be Caught In
Hi guys, Mr and Mrs Budget has been away last week for our honeymoon, hence the lack of articles. But we are now back with our regular scheduling. The biggest news this past week is definitely the Wuhan virus which has gotten many people worried. The Mrs and I are equally worried too and we …
Continue reading Of Wuhan Virus, Syfe’s New Real Estate Portfolio, And CPF.
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