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If you are a business owner, you will agree that cash flow is king. Looking at earnings is only half the story. Too often we hear of companies making profits but in the end they still fail. Earnings can be puffed up with fictitious accounting transactions. The telling sign is usually this… While the company [...]
Creator of Bollinger Bands: John Bollinger (early 1980s) The purpose of Bollinger Bands is to provide a relative definition of high and low. By definition prices are high at the upper band and low at the lower band. Bollinger Bands are akin to envelopes on the upper and lower side of a moving average line. [...]
I really couldn’t believe my eyes today. RHBinvest.com – a leading financial portal in Malaysia – is actually showing an expired domain message on its homepage. Can’t believe it too? Check out this screenshot:
I am pleased to advise that our Charting application is now ready. Charts are available for all Bursa Malaysia companies but excluding the indices for now. Our share price data goes back around 1.5 years. You can plot share price and technical indicators such as Moving Averages, RSI, MACD, Stochastics and so on.
Not too long ago in 2007, stock market analysts were highly bullish on Bursa Malaysia. The KLCI was nearing 1,500 points and corporate earnings particularly in the Palm Oil and Banking sectors were looking rosey. A year on and everyone’s talking global recession. Earnings forecasts are slashed and stock valuation multiples have tumbled. My how [...]
Little has been spared in the current market meltdown. Big companies, small companies… everywhere you look share prices are a fraction of what they were last year. I am a large cap investor. But while scanning through some of the smaller companies on Bursa Malaysia, I am really amazed at how cheap things have become. [...]
We have just added a couple of new companies in our Bursa Malaysia company database Berjaya Corporation – Conglomerate that needs no introduction Titan Chemicals – Manufacturer of petrochemicals products and polyolefin resins Mulpha International Berhad – Property developer / investor in Australia and Malaysia Guinness Anchor – Brewery & alcohol beverages Do let me know if [...]
If you have ever wanted to TRAVEL THE WORLD FOR FREE, now may be the time! Yeah right! I hear you say. Don’t believe me eh? If you had your own airline, you can go anywhere for free right? I’m not kidding! Just buy over MAS and give yourself a free ticket, that simple! Sounds ridiculous but [...]
One of our readers was asking the other day if I could profile the difference in investment approach between Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch. So here are some of the things I’ve managed to come up with: Portfolio Size 1. Warren Buffett is a “Focused Investor” investing only in companies which he considers outstanding. His [...]
In my previous post I described the story of Anne Scheiber, an unsung hero in the investment world. Scheiber owned a portfolio of stocks worth US$22 million when she died. Notably she made lots of money by investing and holding on to a pharmaceutical stock called Schering Plough. From what I read, she has never [...]
