Tea Break for Shares

I have not been sharing lately as I was doing some of my personal projects on D-I-Y or sabbatical from my usual work during the past weeks.  You do visit my blog as I do hope to write and share on my D-I-Y once I get around things. It will be my first attempt on a D-I-Y write up and sharing.

Sun, sky and clouds seen over Bukit Mertajam in the afternoon

 It has been quite a while that I do not know what to share but I like to invest in shares.  Invest in shares can help us to make more money and make your money work hard for you while you sleep and rest.  It could also be the opposite it you invested in shares and lost some money.  There will be excitements when you see your portfolio increases in values.  However, you can have sleepless nights and worries when your portfolio of share prices drop suddenly due to some events like announcement of coming General Election and Polling Date and negative news happening locally or globally beyond your control like the Financial Crisis in 2008, the Earthquake and Tsunami in March 2011 at Japan and the recent European zone Sovereign Debts Crisis.  It is certainly not for everyone.

You either love it or hate it.  Your heartbeats and blood pressure readings determine your health condition as it follow the ups and downs of the stock exchanges indexes like the Japanese Nikkei, Hongkong Hang Seng, Singapore Stock Exhange, Bursa Malaysia KLCI or the US Dow Jones indexes.

 

There are many mistakes in share investments being made by many new traders or investors due to lack of knowledge and of make poor decisions based on tips from friends or relatives and rumors heard in the coffee shops rather than based on some fundamental analysis, technical analysis and own research or fact findings on the counters or companies listed on the stock exchanges (KLSE) or (NYSE) to invest in.  It were hard and bitter lessons learned along the way. 

I have become more careful and better informed as I read and study some books on financial planning, unit-trusts, insurance and  investment links and share investments to educate and to equip myself, make searches for information from business bulletins, internet, television reports, Bursa Malaysia (KLSE) and news or get connected with my remisiers for advice and consultations.  I also subscribed to the stockbroking houses reports.

Well, it certainly helped me to make better informed investment decisions and to be in better mental state of mind in turbulent markets. There is no guarantee that I can make the right picks and make gains each time.  It improved my portfolio selection skill and get better opportunity of making return on investments. At least, I am prepared if I make losses and know how to minimize the portfolio risks.

I came across some of these blogs dedicated to financial investments in stocks and shares that are very interesting and informative which I like and you may like to visit too.  

They are :-
Malaysia-Finance Blogspot (here). The Bonuses are you get to introduced to beautiful ladies, splendid pictures and get good tips on foods and musics too.

Nexttrade (here) Good professional advice, insights on the market outlook, stocks with charts and the technical analysis reports.

Politemarket Blogspot (here) Lively and Interesting but is Taking A Break.  Look forward to the next post and meantime enjoying the older posts.

I am sure you will return to their blogs for more and share it with your friends too.

A narrow, winding and sloping road in BM with the ongoing Ipoh - Padang Besar Electric Double tracking project carried out by Gamuda

Note: I was introduced to share trading and being offered ESOS (Employee Share Option Scheme) when I was in my first banking job in the early 1980s and when my employer was embarking on a one-stop financial center concept for the ease of doing business in a little town up North where there was no stockbroking firm present there then.. The trading was very much different from today as we used manual records, registers and making telephone calls to the appointed dealer to place our orders. The daily newspapers pages on stocks summary which I used to skipped reading suddenly became the all important MUST READ pages from Mondays to Saturdays. Now, with the advancement of technology and electronics gadgets, we can go online and trade online live from anywhere (even when you are in the business of doing private business in toilet just  like the advertisement of MYEG with its appealing beauties in red skirts, of getting your road tax delivered to you at your toilet doorstep) as long as you have access to the internet and your trading account.

By the way, here is a little diversion about MYEG. Its service is really useful to me when my clients are from outstations and when they did not have the car registration card with them if they did not bother to collect it from the bank for safe-keeping under the hire-purchase loan.  I can issue the automobile/motorcar insurance policy online at my Insurance principal's Agency Portal and renew the road tax for my client by logging into MYEG's portal and pay the road tax fee and delivery charges via credit card or online bank fund transfer.  The road tax is then delivered by MYEG directly to my client at their preferred address (Home or Office) within 48 hours.  MYEG is also listed on the Bursa Malaysia.

Notice : The blogger takes no responsibility for the contents of this blog, makes no representation as to its accuracy or completeness and expressly disclaims any liability whatsoever for any loss however arising from or in reliance upon the whole or any part of the contents of this blog.

Links - Credits and appreciations to :
Bursa Malaysia
Malaysia Finance Blogspot - Mr Salvatore_Dali
Nexttrade - Mr Alex Lu
Politemarket Blogspot
Blood Pressure Association UK