This week, I decided to liquidate my position in Megaworld (MEG) at a premium price of 14% based to what I believe is its intrinsic value. I held the investment since July 2015. I tracked my overall performance on a year-on-year basis versus to a buy and hold strategy and here’s how I performed. Year … Read more
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
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
What makes stock market investing enjoyable for me is the job of valuing a company myself I’m interested in investing with. Back then I don’t know anything about financial statements. If you’ll ask me to interpret a financial statement, I will be at a total loss. But if you’ll ask me to design and build … 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
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