CFA class preview and trial at Penang

MRR consulting is giving a free preview of CFA (chartered financial analyst) class on 25 May and 1st June 2010 (8pm - 930pm). There is also trial class on 27 May and 3rd June (6.30pm -9.30pm).
It is run by Ooi Kok Hwa, a columnist on The Star and a CFA himself.

the venue is B303-3-26 krystal point

market technical crash, what to do?

originally i posted something different. but thought that i will post that next week

so market crash, it shed off quite some $ from my haio as well. i was comtemplating to sell when i realize earning of haio shouldn't be affected by europe or US.

some more by today there are more buyer than seller
so i decide to keep it

pledged share value

today received my PB broker statement. surprised to find that my pledged shares value has increased 99.7% from the previous month value. Not really sure why the broker suddenly decided to do so, but it does reflect the market value of my Hai-o stock closer. Coincidentally, my latest copy of Shanghai magazine has featured Hai-o in an article, citing it as one very successful business that has tapped onto the information technology to supercharge its traditional business forward. Although it keep me wondering if this means my little beloved stock will start to have more analyst's following and hence attract more institutional investor? My reading on the edge also make me realize that NTPM Teoh is accumulating NTPM stock, despite that Tabung Haji has been cashing out for weeks.

I have also just opened a US trading account. My friend HK shared with me most US banks have Debt equity ratio > 2. Malaysian banks are really much better with none having the ratio > 1. Should i buy into US banks? when it seems imminent that US economy is recovering. Luckily for short future i need not think too much. I don't have sufficiently huge enough spare cash to go into US. While i still have some unutilized cash in Hong Kong, i should probably try to buy HK stock first.

Price Earning / PE Ratio - the thin line

PE ratio is a very common key financial ratio used in stock analysis. However, one need to be cautious of the value itself. Sometimes, forward PE ratio is reported rather than the current PE ratio. PE ratio is simply EPS/NTA, whereas forward PE is projected EPS / NTA , where the projected EPS is not something that has yet to happen. Forward PE is always used to give the investor the impression that the PE will be cheaper in future than it is currently.

USA market a very huge market

Last friday OSK foreign stock investment talk is very nice. The speaker who came all the way from US told us that he was gonna teach us how to fish in the US market rather than just gave us a few stock to choose from. I think he has successfully done just that. I have gain some thoughts that i have never thought of, especially on how to select what to buy from the US market that has over 7000 stocks listed. I also like that he is able to use data and chart to answer the many questions that the seminar attendees posted to him.

One thing that should excite everybody to start thinking to invest in US market is that, it is huge, and using a 20 years technical chart one can see that we are clearly in recovering phase, and haven't got a bull run yet. From other data, one can also see that institutional investor are moving away from china to go to market like USA and Russia. Just based on this i think we should invest in US over long term.

winner of RHB stock challenge to attend OSK seminar at Penang

My idol Yew Tatt, a winner of RHB stock investment challenge (http://rhbinvest.com/page/site/public/english/StockChallenge.html), will attend the OSK foreign market investment seminar at Penang wawasan open university this friday evening. OSK investment seminar is always pretty good

Yew Tatt wins RHB stock challenge

Congratulations to my friend Yew Tatt for winning this. Geng!

http://rhbinvest.com/page/site/public/english/StockChallenge.html

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