Lol what do you mean 'by luck'? you just feel like shorting, and you short?

looks like your 'short' got lots of profits already!

trader instinct ...

I'm gonna short now

sometime when someone make money in the early morning.. noon time better protect profit lo..

so I am shaking leg and surfing net now...

no girl to date     

agree. but i haven't make any money yet today

Hi, there are no such thing as stupid questions when one is in the pursuit of knowledge.

Personally, when it comes to stock selection, I'll use fundamental analysis for my stock picking. Fundamental analysis including reading annual reports and their financial statements (balance sheet, income statement, cash flow etc...), learning how to interpret the info from annual reports. For example, you should learn how to interpret  financial ratios (Current ratio, ROE/ROA, Debt ratio, P/E, Dividend yield etc....). Different ratios have different use. Current ratio for example to measure the liquidity of the company, ROE/ROA use to measure profitability, while Debt ratio is used to measure....well debt.

P/E and Dividend yields for example are known as investment valuation ratios. Investors normally use the ratios in this category for their stock picking. For those who want to dig further about the company, then they may use other ratios mentioned above, which can be obtained from the company's annual report
You can dig around the forum, or google to learn about these ratios.

As for timing, that's where the TA came in. Charts gives you a visual of the price action. Without charts, it's very hard to see what are the reactions of investors to that particular stock. TA gives you an idea where you can consider buying, selling, or just don't do anything and stay out from the counter. My two favourite websites to learn the very basics of TA are:

Babypips

Chart school
Another important things to learn, especially if you're considering trading as opposed to buy and hold, is risk and money management. For me these are the most important thing in my trading business, because I have a very limited capital, hence I need to manage it wisely to minimize losses.

One important thing to remember: There is no holy grail in investing/trading. Market movement is random, and it will do whatever it wants, and it doesn't give a damn what people thinking the market should be.

If you're student, I suggest you join investment challenge organize by your uni, or by stockbroker to gain more exposure in stock market, learn the mechanics etc. One of the famous one is OSK Investment Challenge (I was one of the winner back then ).

Good luck. 

p/s: I focus more on FCPO now, because I'm too lazy to go through over 1000 stocks to select which one to go in  .

I already have few in my list, but to wait for opportunity to buy, it might take months/years before the opportunity comes knocking on my door. So for recurring  income, I choose FCPO, because I can only focus on the timing, and risk/money management. I still review the stocks in my list once in awhile though

ciahcra : You so pro.

pro? i don't think so 

YTLPOWR still has not move!!   

Wanna follow you on Incken. 1.00 ok boss mau masuk? 

I've held this counter for quite long since May 2012 at 55 cents. Hold all the way until I got stopped out at 1.05 when it peaked and came back down.

From May 2012 to Sept 2012, nothing happened, so I gave up, didn't watch this counter anymore until it broke 75 cents

FCPO 1 Hour

FCPO 1 Hour chart.

Detected hidden bullish divergence. Price rebounded at Fibo 61.8 of the swing, and the trendline.

5 mins chart got showed hammer candlestick, bullish divergence and confirmation candle for reversal. I got Long position at 2420, with CL at 2410, and target 2467.

Yesterday price hit my CL at 2455, lose 5 points, but I enter again at 2464 and hold overnight, take profit at 2420

I still watch YTLP only.

Recently. the Iskandar theme had been reignited and we saw strong movement in stocks like UEM Land and Tebrau.
Focus was then focused on companies who own land bank in that region.
These companies either own land bank or purchased land in that region and have yet to develop or revalue their assets.
We saw good movements in stocks like KSL and even giant stock like Genting Plantation posted solid gains because report came out they own lots of land in/near that region.

I see this has sort of play has caught on. Play is shifting towards plays on stocks which has properties (or land bank) that are deemed under valued because the assets has not been revalued.

Example? Most leng chai stock recently is Kseng.
Explosive movement which I believe is contributed by the fact this company long time no revalue its assets and of course Dali's posting http://malaysiafinance.blogspot.com/2013/0...ng-to-boil.html helped stirred some interest. 

Moving along same theme, ie under valued asset, should be Incken also.
Net asset is above 1.77 and if its properties are valued to current valuation, this stock looks deeply under value.

Reason to buy looks 'ok' for me.

The other day, Incken, woke up and made a solid movement last Thursday.
Stock has pulled back a little since then.
The fact the stock is holding ok at the 1.00 region looks to inviting for me.
It's an open door for me.
And as mentioned last time, the company has been constantly buying back some stocks every day since CNY.

Err.. looks like a decent bet la.

Pray I am not wrong. 

Wrote too much jor...

until now i dont dare to hold overnight...

all my transaction intraday...

2464... 2420 tp....