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Buy High, Sell High or Buy Low, Sell High? Momentum Investing vs Contrarian Investing: Which is better?

Momentum Investing vs. Contrarian Investing Buy High, Sell High Momentum trading, or trend trading, is an investment strategy that involves purchasing securities during an upward price trend, and selling when the momentum of the trend shows signs of weakening. This strategy is typically short-term in nature and tends to target growth stocks Additional Reading: Growth

February 15, 2021

The average salary in Singapore 2023: Can you afford a condo with your income?

Average Salary in Singapore 2023 The Ministry of Manpower Singapore just formalized the Income statistics of Singaporeans although an earlier tentative report was released back in Dec. The statistics show that the Median income of Singapore residents fell for the first time since 2004 due to COVID-19. It is likely more informative to use the

February 10, 2021

DBS Vickers – Should you be trading using this brokerage account?

DBS Vickers – An in-depth review Taking the first step to any activity is always daunting with so much information and tools available around us. Let’s take picking up music as an example. One will have to decide on the choice of the instrument followed by the myriad of brands and models available in the

February 8, 2021

OCBC BCIP: Why should you Dollar Cost Average into OCBC Blue Chip Investment Plan

Dollar-Cost Average + OCBC BCIP This article will be broken down into two parts. I will first write about my decision to carry out dollar-cost averaging followed by my experience with OCBC BCIP (blue-chip investment plan). What is Dollar-Cost Averaging? Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA) is a passive investment strategy that advocates periodic investment on a particular

February 5, 2021

Top 4 Investment Tips For Beginners

Investment Tips for Beginners Stocks, bonds, equities, dividends, leverage. You’ve probably heard more investment jargon like these than you can count. If you do not fully understand them, don’t worry – investing as a beginner is not as complicated as it may seem. In fact, you can start investing in the stock market just by

February 3, 2021

Keppel Corp: Why I am paring my stakes in the company

Keppel Corp: A gem that failed to sparkle Readers of NAOF would be familiar with Keppel Corp, a company that I have been recommending over the past 3-4 months, starting when I first made an initial investment at the cost of S$4.40. While I believe that the company remains undervalued, its recent results announcement made

February 1, 2021

All-In-One Guide to SPACs: Should you be investing in SPACs in 2021?

Investing in SPACs in 2021. What you need to know This is a follow-up article on one of the hottest investment assets in 2020 that some readers might not be aware of. I have previously given NAOF readers a brief overview of what SPACs are in this article: How to invest in SPACs like a

January 28, 2021

Most Shorted Stocks: A smarter way to play the Short Squeeze game [Update Jan 2021]

Investor Education Series: Short Squeeze [Update Jan 2021] This is an updated post with the original post first written in November 2020, where I highlighted to NAOF readers some of the most shorted stocks in the universe and how to possibly profit from a powerful phenomenon known as a short squeeze. The list of short

January 27, 2021

Bank of America: Best Stocks for 2021 [Free reports]

Best Stocks for 2021 i will be providing a quick summary of the top picks by Bank of America, which includes the following key segments: Best Small-Mid Cap Ideas for 2021 Media & Cable – Six key themes of growth US Semiconductors – Emerging trends in 2021 Food and Discount Retailers – Entering “Discount Store

January 26, 2021

6 Outperforming stocks that beat Tesla in 2021. Are these stocks better buys?

Outperforming stocks for 2021 Tesla stock has been on a roll for the past 1-year and that momentum seems to remain in place for 2020 as the stock has already appreciated by 20% YTD 2021. In this article, we identify 6 outperforming stocks that have appreciated MORE than Tesla and yet might still be better

January 25, 2021

5 rising momentum stocks identified using TradersGPS

How to identify momentum stocks the easy way At the end of 2020, I wrote an article highlighting 4 Singapore momentum stocks to buy into 2021. All 4 SG stocks have appreciated in value of approx. 3-22% over 3 weeks and it does seem like their current price momentum could result in another leg up

January 19, 2021

10 Great Reasons to Buy Singapore REITs and 3 Reasons to be cautious [Update 2021]

[Update 2021] Singapore REITs have generally underperformed in 2020 as a result of COVID-19. As we head into 2021, is there an opportunity to buy into Singapore REITs to play a recovery in this sector? In this update, I provide my thoughts on the Singapore REITs landscape as we start off 2021 and check to

January 18, 2021

How to become a millionaire even with the worst market timing

Worst market timing: Why that does not matter Some NAOF readers are expressing their concerns over the current state of the stock market. The mismatch between economic “reality” and the stock market performance has been particularly glaring of late. Hence it comes as no surprise that one might be particularly cautious of waddling into the

January 15, 2021

Are you still waiting for the stock market to crash in 2021?

Stock market to crash in 2021? 2020 has been an eventful year, to say the least. When COVID-19 strikes, we witnessed the stock market entering into a bear market territory in record time. At the height of the COVID-19 driven market sell-down back in March/April 2020, few would have expected an equally “fast and furious”

January 11, 2021

Are we in a bubble?

Investor Education Series: Stock market bubble According to famed value investor, Jeremy Grantham of GMO fund, the long long bull market since 2009 has finally matured into a full-fledged epic bubble, one in which he believes this particular bubble, when it finally burst, will be recorded as one of the great bubbles of financial history,

January 7, 2021

why I am keeping a close watch on Coupa Software

Investment thesis: Coupa Software is the widely recognized leader in business spend management, with a cloud-native platform that has allowed it to become a leader over larger incumbents. An acceleration in dollar-based net retention points to customer loyalty and a growing opportunity to add more products around the core platform. Management sees a $56 billion

January 5, 2021

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