One of the most favourite pastimes for economists, analysts and investors alike in the early part of the year is to make market prediction on where the stock market will be heading. Ipsos Global ran a similar survey and research report on the outlook of 2023, including where the economy and stock market is heading…
Category: Personal Development
Why It Is So Difficult to Build Wealth by Shorting a Stock?
The fundamental idea behind shorting a stock is to predict on a stock’s downtrend movement and profit from it. If we were to implement this strategy last year, we would have made lots of money from it as the global market plummeted from the fear of rising inflation and interest rates. Surely, it’s a no…
Does Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA) Strategy Works In A Bear Market?
The stock market hasn’t been kind to any investors so far this year with many major indices and currencies plunging to over decades low. Already, many media outlets are touting this year as one of the most unprecedented and difficult times to endure. One of the hardest things to do in a bear market is…
If Your Portfolio Looks Crap, Know That We Are In A Bear Market
My portfolio is down in the range of 35-40% in the last two years and it hasn’t been easy for me as it has been for anyone. A bear market can take an extreme psychological mental toll not only on new but also some experienced investors. In a bear market, no one is immune (unless…
A Day in The Life of Sales Account Executive In A SaaS Company | Kelly Lim
As part of this newly featured series I am making to refresh the segment, I will be interviewing people from all walks of life into looking what they do for their day job, what they do outside of their day job, what their plans are for investment, and what are their thoughts for retirement. In…
The Benefits of Graduating During A Recession
I was reading this article last week on young graduates seeking for employment when it struck me that I have once been in that stage before more than a decade ago – and as I will detail later below why I think it sets a good place to start. Back to the article, one of…
What is Your Price of Happiness Index Level?
I attended one very interesting Group Research Project in recent weeks which I wanted to share my thoughts. The Project was about measuring the correlation between income to expense ratio over happiness level. I’ll explain in a little bit about how this works. The Group of attendees were selected randomly but selectively through (I suspect)…
Sharing My Experience of Changing Jobs & What I Get/Learn In Return
The Great Resignation trend across globally is hitting the jobs market today with many singling out collective jobs burnout as one of the main reason why people decide to weigh in their lifestyle choice and choose to look elsewhere. Resignation and attrition are a common theme across most companies given the majority of people have…
The Importance of Patience & Focusing on the Business Metrics – Amazon Case Study
Amazon has one of the most impressive compounder chart history in many years. After accounting for three rounds of stock splits in more than 2 decades, the stock has advanced from $1.50 back in 1997 to $3400 today in 2021. That is a whooping return of more than 200,000% return in a period of slightly…
Why Using Monthly Active Users (MAU) / Daily Active Users (DAU) Alone Can Be Deceptive Metric
Keeping a close tab on your company’s unit economics is one of the most important task for management and the board as it tells a lot of story on how the company is performing over time. Today, we’ll be focusing on one of the most commonly over-used and over-reported metrics by many companies – Monthly…