tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72826791004285971062024-10-07T12:56:35.299+08:00My own race in making a splash in the Philippine Stock Market.The Trend Runnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01101069110349617163noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7282679100428597106.post-33703403748835062552013-01-17T17:30:00.000+08:002013-04-06T00:19:49.579+08:00

For about 26 years, I walked into meeting rooms, conference rooms, and board rooms and talked to bosses and subordinates, suppliers and customers, and ate with office friends in sprawling cafeterias amidst the noisy, unintelligible chatter of office workers. The hectic corporate life were briefly interrupted with birthday celebrations and annual office parties that somehow remind everyone that

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I was in my prepubescent age when I joined a neighborhood gang - five boys and one little pesky girl who could not be shaken off behind by her older brother. The little girl's name was "Diosa" and she was the gang's muse. Though her name belongs to the pantheon, she was our own version of Les Miserables' Cosette. And the boys? Well, we were then all the male version of Cosette, wearing

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Once there was a dog which woke up early morning and stood outside his master's house to catch a glimpse of the first sunshine. It was not very much the sunshine itself that beckoned the dog to this daily ritual but the effect that it had on him as the sun cast the shadows of trees. The dog was mesmerized by the shadows  that it barked, jumped and ran circles around any shadow it fancied.

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There is something about Assassin Movies that draw me over to watch them first before other movies. Albeit visceral, Assassin Movies provide me much needed adrenaline rush in the comfort and safety of a movie house sans broken limbs and bones. I love Assassin Movies whether this involves a stealthy ninja, a ruthless hired gun, a former government agent on the loose, or a femme fatale on

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I love Poker not because I am an addicted gambler but because Stock Trading and Poker are pretty much alike. Poker betting terms like "call", "check", "raise", and "fold" are equivalent to stock trading terms as "bid", "hold", "jockey", and "cut loss".  It is so alike that I practice my emotional control and derive some of my trading strategies through the lessons learned from playing it

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If you want to be successful in the stock market, you have to be really good at mind games where 1) understanding and riding market sentiments correctly and 2) having the ability to make tough and decisive actions account for probably more than half of your success or failure. The other half or lesser percentage is accounted for by your technical skills, be it in fundamental analysis or chart

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If business, as they say, is war then rightly so the stock market is its daily battlefield where the bulls, the bears, and the bullshits meet. I have been in this market for more than a year now to recognize that apart from the bulls and the bears who are continually locked in battle, there is a third wheel that influences and manipulates market sentiment and trader psychology for its own

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As I am writing this, the temperature outside the house has already gone past 36 degrees centigrade for the past several days. It is indeed hot, really hot, that my six-month old daughter does not anymore wear the usual sweater and pajama clothing even though the airconditioning is running at 19 degrees. Before summer took over, the airconditioning inside the room

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One headline-grabbing but otherwise alarming piece of news courtesy of the Taxman is the recent arraignment of the Pacman for contempt due to his failure to submit tax documents relating to his assets and income. Headline-grabbing because Pacman is a national treasure and one of the biggest individual taxpayers of this country and alarming because what they have

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When the economy stalls, political leaders and policymakers normally resort to either more government spending or interest rate reduction to jumpstart the economy. These are tired and testy policy instruments used over the centuries. I have previously argued that government spending is a false cure and I wish to add that interest rate reduction is only a welcome development to

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Calls for increased government spending is rising by the day to stimulate the stagnating, if not an already stagnant economy. The BSP governor has, in fact, called for more government spending in today's headlines. While this inarguably results to increase in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), this has less multiplier effect it is hoped to achieve. What is worse is that it is not

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At first sight of an economic or financial collapse, financial investors and traders, or simpy those with money scurry out their funds from the stock market and into investments considered as safe havens such as bonds, swiss francs, or gold, among others. The rush into these safe havens increases the price of bonds, the appreciaton

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I have long ago been praying and waiting for dark clouds to part and let sunshine thru, but a year had past and there was nothing. As the year draws near, it was more of the same. I was trapped in a middle of nowhere faintly remembering what happiness was and vaguely seeing what it is like to be. But life does have a way of making up for all

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There goes the Ghost of August and hopefully it will not come back as the Spectre in September. The month of August left a psychological scar in my trading skills. There were days I looked at graphs with a blank stare bludgeoned to submission by an unforgiving market. As a neophyte trader who had just completed the Certification for Stocks Specialization Course, I found myself questioning

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I was transitioning from sleep to wakefulness when I was fully awakened by an incoming message alarm from my cellphone. I struggled to open my eyes and then reached out for my cellphone to check the message. It was from the free news service subscription. I thought it was just one of those ordinary days. I was wrong! Dead wrong! As I scrolled down, my jaw dropped and my eyes were wide shut as I

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Contrary to what I expected, there was no Strategic Trading Game (STG) after our Technical Analysis Module. My dissapointment was shortlived as I realized that our professor was indeed right in saying that the STG will not bring out the best in us in analysing stocks technically. Because it only involves play money, participants risk attitude and analytical thinking will not be tested

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The PSE-Ateneo Certification for Securities Specialization Course is now on its Core Course Modules. Everybody in the class are relieved that the Introductory Modules have all been completed and we are finally going to learn the very two subjects that we all paid and came here for - the Fundamental and Technical Analyses. I was expecting that the Stock Trading Game (STG)

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The Certification for Securities Specialist Course officially started on Tuesday, March 1, 2011 and I was officially kind of disoriented. To find myself studying again and leafing thru pages of course materials seemed to me like an unusual dream sequence in "Inception". I felt like pinching myself to wake up but then again this is my new reality, my here and now, for me to become a

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Each day, I always get excited to look at the PSE stock market OPEN, HIGH, LOW, CLOSE price quotes. It fulfills me that my analysis the previous day is indeed correct. I have been analysing PNB stocks vis-a-vis the three peer banks - MBT, BDO, and BPI since middle of January. At the end of the trading day, I immediately gather the four price quotes of the stocks

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I purposely capitalized the letter “A” in the word “Chartist” for a reason. Although chart analysis is a science as there is a great deal of math, and psychology behind the charts, I am convinced that for one to see the fine footprints of what is going on in the market and where it is going, one has to draw up from his innate artistry of reading the charts. Thus, the generation of the charts is

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As a novice trader, I fully understand the importance of learning the tricks of the trade fast. Thankfully, I saw an electronic board advertisement along Ayala Avenue by chance inviting applicants for the 5th PSE - Ateneo Certification for Securities Specialist Course. If I am to become a full-time trader, I need to be certified as one. I did not waste my time. After convingcing my

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While my first foray into stock trading and investing was successful, I consider it more of a freshman luck. I was simply cost averaging and there was totally no systematic and orderly plan at what price I enter and exit the market. It was all trade and no plan. I could have improved my profit and ROI considerably if I did a little technical and fundamental analysis. Looking back, these are

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I was introduced to stock market investing and trading in April 2007. The Bank I was working for alloted a small portion of new stocks issued to its employees at a price of P64.5 per share. A friend encouraged me to buy and so I did and bought 400 shares. The bank was then raising new capital to satisfy Basel II requirements. The newly issued stock was oversubscribed and there was

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My personal moon is a 60% average annual rate of return on investment over 15 years. This is high by any account and most probably unreachable. That is why it is called aiming for the moon. Is this really unrealistic? Am I setting up myself for failure? Is this a march towards self-destruction? Before explaining my choice of a personal moon, I wish to remind the readers that someone

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I used to work in a bank. While I loved my job and the people I was working with, I figured that the compensation would not help achieve my long-term goals in life. I set higher and loftier goals than most. When I was a kid, I was already envisioning of grander things. I came across this saying that have stricken me for many years now that "If you aim for the moon, you might hit an eagle,

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