Because new money is brought into the stock market. As time goes by people buy more stocks and thus bring in new cash in the market. There is a bidding process happening behind the scenes when people want to buy new stock and the end results is that higher demand for stock will increase its […]
Guess what? It was not a surprise that I lost money in the SpaceX IPO. It was highly publicised that when SpaceX would IPO on 12 June 2026, it would attract a lot of demand. The small number of shares that were put up for sale were four times oversubscribed. People were tripping over each […]
You’ve read that correctly: up 35% year-on-year on my whole portfolio. The S&P 500 is up 27% YoY. I’ve beaten the market. I should feel happy, accomplished, and whatnot, but I’m not. Why? Because any fool can ride a bull market and even beat the “index,” but almost no one can do so consistently over […]
After spending over a year buying and selling shares without rhyme or reason, I started keeping an investment journal in August 2023. I intentionally chose the month to avoid aligning myself with the market’s end-of-year craziness. I needed to move away from the noise and pressure of the market participants. Since then, I’ve been writing […]
On one of those mornings with cloudy skies, as they always do in London, “Lady K” asked me a question that stumped me. I spoke about what I had learned about investing, how much work it is, and how complicated things can get, and she flatly asked me, “What will you do when you get […]
I vividly remember the first time I went to our morning coffee and wasn’t walking briskly with my head up high and shoulders back, happy to start a new day and read more about investing like I always did. This day, I was walking slowly, my mind wandering. I realised that my work in investing […]
There I was, all starry-eyed, reading about Warren Buffet’s life several years back while trying to learn more about value investing. Like everything I thoroughly enjoy, I was totally engrossed in Roger Lowenstein’s book “Buffet, The making of an American capitalist”. The story is gripping, you get the inside scoop of one of the greatest […]
When asked what they’d rather fight, a horse-sized duck or many duck-sized horses, people choose the second option. In the stock market, both possibilities can wipe you out: either a big drop or many small drops. It was around the time when the infamous “Yen-carry event” was happening that the drops in the share price […]
Given that nowadays there are plenty of reports and details available online about public companies, my goal is to gather as much information as possible for free. The websites recommended below offer some information for free, and if you look at the free information offered by multiple websites, you can gather enough useful information. I […]
To learn more effectively about investing, I read books from several fields, not just investing. These books are meant to guide me in the right direction—both in terms of knowledge and psychology. Many times, you lose as an investor simply because you lack patience and end up trading instead of investing. Since I’m a fan […]