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Saturday, December 12, 2015

A recent email exchange:

Good Evening AK! 


I have been following your blog for quite a while now! I would first like to thank you for setting up a blog like that! It has helped me gained much knowledge in the world of investing! We actually have met twice so far! Once in your Talk with AK and once at InvestXCongress (I was the guy who told you I fell asleep for the first half and post lunch half >< )

Anyway! If it is possible, I would like to share some analysis with you and see if it is actually sound (and hopefully learn more from you (:  )

1) Recently, Hong Fok's two charimen have been buying back huge amounts of their shares.. Attached herewith is an excel sheet (3rd page) with the details i tabulated from their website and also some layman analysis (page 1 and 2) that I have done. I intend to buy in as a short term trade but potentially holding on till End Feb as that is about when they release their FY reports.

2) Attached herewith is a Cordlife image. Normally, after a dividend, one would expect the share price to drop however, it seems not to be the case for Cordlife. I intend to have my TP at 1.65.

Sorry that the two questions I have are mainly about short term investments. I am trying to build up some more capital to increase my warchest. (Teacher pay not enough >< )


Hope to hear from you soon!
J




Hi J,

Ah, I think I remember you. :)

1. Hong Fok. I happen to know the family quite well. I wouldn't buy Hong Fok's stock unless I am thinking of possibly having the value unlocked one day through privatisation. It could take forever.

2. Stock prices don't have to fall on XD. It just so happens that they often do. Prices are a function of sentiments in the short run.

If you would like to increase your capital in the stock market in the short run, you might be better off learning Technical Analysis and becoming more of a trader.

I have always been an income investor but I did quite a bit of trading in my earlier years too.

Get the right tools to achieve your goals. :)

Best wishes,
AK


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Being fallible in dieting and investing.

Monday, December 7, 2015


Added (15 Dec 2016)
I made lunch.






Egg and cheese prata. 
Pan fried with butter.
Lots of black pepper.

Now, read the rest of the blog.

One year ago in December 2015:


Regular readers probably know that AK is on a special diet by now and has enjoyed some early success.

Dieting, like many things in life such as being frugal, requires discipline. Often, people give up after a while because they get too extreme and feel deprived. This applies to both dieting and being frugal. 


What do I mean by feeling deprived? 

It is like meeting a Dementor (as in the fantasy creature from Harry Potter) and having all the happiness sucked out of us because we were denied all the food that made us happy. 

Dieting shouldn't be like that. 

Dieting should be a happy process of discovering ourselves with a healthier body weight.

I shared in an earlier blog post that I find it hard to have zero carbs and zero sugar in my diet. It is especially hard because I have a sweet tooth. 

So, I go for as little carbs and sugar as possible. That is the best I could do.

My weight loss process might be a little slower, as a result, but I am still losing weight. Dieting is not a race. 

Of course, it would be good to be able to lose weight faster but if I must become unhappy to do so, then, the diet can go where the sun never shines.

After several weeks, today, I cheated big time on my diet:

Hot chocolate, cakes and cookies.

It was a real treat! It was also free of charge and that made me feel less guilty about cheating. LOL.

If we are following a diet, being too extreme is not a good idea. A gradual weight loss is better than a drastic one. 

We shouldn't have to be too concerned with being right with what we eat all the time.

This brings to mind what Peter Lynch said about how being right 6 times out of 10 times would make us better than most investors. 

We cannot be right all the time as investors and dieters. We should just aim to be right most of the time and that should make us quite happy.

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Added on 24 April 2016:
I find this a pretty good compromise for my diet:


Just another egg omelette with coconut oil and olive oil?

It is filled with curry potato and cheese!

Protein, good fats and good carbohydrates. Yummy too!
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Added 17 Jan 17:

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