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…
Category: Personal Development
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…
Reader: I Cut Loss On My Chinese Stocks at 40% Loss and Now I am Down Another 40% on My US Stocks. What Should I do?
I received an email from a concerned reader who wrote to me about a week ago. We have exchanged a few email correspondences and I have obtained his permission to publish this on an article without mentioning his real name. Here is the unedited question he wrote. Hi B I have been an avid reader…
Dealing with Volatility in Stock Market
The Chinese stock market has been very volatile recently due to the regulatory concerns clouding the fundamental business of the company. While personally I think the worst is now behind us, the continued regulatory concerns surrounding some policy changes have increased the volatility nature of many Chinese tech related stocks. Like most investors, I am…
My Experience Attending Equinet Academy SEO Course Review
I have been a writer for the past 10 years and counting and just last month in fact, I completed my 1000th article post in this blog. In the past, I was focused so much on creating content week after week that I did not give much thoughts to all the other important areas of…
Using DLCs To Complement Your Trading Style + SG Active Trading Tournament 2021
Daily Leverage Certificates (DLCs) are exchange-traded financial products that enable investors to take a leveraged exposure to an underlying asset, such as an equity index or a single stock (you may refer the full lists of DLCs here). On each trading day, the DLCs would replicate the performance of the underlying asset versus its previous…
Emotional Behaviour in Investing – Capitulation & Despondency in Focus
We are going to take a break from the recent valuation and execution articles I’ve wrote on quite a few recently. Today, we will be discussing about the emotional behavioural part of investing – an aspect that most of investors took it for granted until things turned otherwise for them. This is the third time…
Executing a Game Plan on an Averaging Down Investment Strategy
In my previous article, I wrote about the importance of having the right mental mindset in order to enact a perfect execution strategy in investing. Well, literally speaking, there isn’t a perfect execution strategy or formula that we can imposed all the time but we can strive to do better from time to time. In…
The Art of Execution – Investing [Series]
Most new investors step into the stock market learning through the fundamental series of the company. Don’t get me wrong – understanding the basic function of how a business works in the real world and how they are being valued is very important in investing but they are just half a battle won. Most people…