Have you bought stocks at the peak of a bull market? Well, I did. Let me share you this story. Just like every newbie, when I bought my first stock, MEG, last July 2015, I didn’t realize that I bought it during the peak of a bull market. As the months passed, I observed that … Read more
One way to reduce your paper losses in the stock market is to lower your average price per share or simply to do cost averaging down. Here’s a simple illustration on how I reduced my losses by averaging down my average price per share. See the screenshots below; Fig. 1 Portfolio screenshot before This is … Read more
When a company makes a lot of profit, it sometimes shares a part of it to its investors. We call it dividends. To put it in a perspective, imagine a “carinderia” business in which you and your mom are the owners. Your supermom does everything from cooking, serving and dish washing while you on the other … Read more
There are many valuation models out there on how to predict a stock price in the future. One model I always use is the Equity Bond Theory. The other is the Historical Earnings Growth Model. Today, I’ll share another valuation tool that you can use in order to foresee a stock’s future growth earnings potential. … Read more
Today is a very memorable day for me because today, I can now officially call myself a stock market investor. I bought my first ever stock; 1,000 shares of Megaworld Corporation (MEG) at PHP 4.88 per share today. So what does this mean actually? It means that I now own a share in the ownership of … Read more
I’ve been studying a dozen financial statements of different companies these past few days to find out how successful value & growth investors like Warren Buffett choose winning stocks by themselves. Warren Buffett’s investing style is based on finding companies with durable competitive advantage. His investing principles are written in these two books; Buffettology and … Read more
To answer this question, you now enter the mind of the most successful investor in the world, Warren Buffett. These past few days, I see a lot of first-time investors like me asking these type of questions on Facebook forums that somewhat goes like this; In my opinion, as first-time investors, we should learn to … Read more