ha-ha,. what goes up must come down.....indexes had been up for a the past 1 week...time to come down next week in time for the tapering fear?     

geeee. all funds still in "RED"...cannot switch yet,....waiting for opp to go some into Korea, Taiwan and US.

The cat will bounce a few more times.. just be ready to catch the dips.
The mini kaboom is merely a blip...not big enough even to call it a correction..., there is still too much greed in the market.. 

My portfolio is currently at all time high..

For me no, stay invested.. catch the dips.  Timing market is tough and you occasionally get it wrong.

I sold down a lot of stock in mid 2013 as prices flies through the roof. Now going back in 

Now playing jakarta stock exchnage.. damm volatile.

Stocks can go down 50% in a few days and then back up 50% in another few days. 

Rather than pick stocks which not everyone can do, and paying high fees for UT. Why not consider ETF.. almost same as UT but passive investment with rock bottom management fees. 

CIMB bank acts as market maker for the ETF, they must always maintain a buy/sell queue spread to NAV (i think not more than 1%-2% difference). So no problem with liquidity, if no one buy from you the bank will buy back. 

CIMB bank acts as market maker for the ETF, they must always maintain a buy/sell queue spread to NAV (i think not more than 1%-2% difference). So no problem with liquidity, if no one buy from you the bank will buy back. 

No.... thier buy sell queue will have a 1% spread to nav. You want to sell, you have to sell at bank buying price. You put high high, no one gonna buy from you.

Ada wat... all etf got divvy 1... but it does not matter, left right pocket only.

*puts on logic hat*

- Unker gark said that CIMB is the market maker
- HSI and Shanghai steady = China FTSE ETF NAV steady
- M'sia index lausai got no impact on the China ETF
- Let's say M'sian investors all lausai to Holland, panic sell everything INCLUDING China ETF, CIMB will/should telan all

In a panic sale, like gark said, most likely investors would be dumping at 1-2% below NAV. Why not?

I just read some of them moments ago...

http://www.cimbetf.com/index.php?ch=ch_etf...my_xinhua&ac=11

ETF got more up-to-date and comprehensive info compared to a typical UT

China 25 etf tracks the 25 biggest stock in HKSE/CHina. If MY index crash, the ETF should hold steady, but if HKSE crash, the ETF will crash together.

ETF can sometimes trade at below or above NAV, this is called discount or premium, usually will happen during volatile times (human emotion hard to control), but still the difference will be small max up to 5% (usually 1-2%). And this difference will correct itself in a short time. The more the liquid ETF is the smaller premium/discount (for example big ETF like S&P 500 trades at premium/discount of 0.1%-0.2%). ETF with totally no liquidity is also somewhat protected as the market maker's queue is enough to adsorb.

How this happens is when there is too much buyers or sellers transacting than the market maker can adsorb.

Lets say NAV RM 1

Market maker every morning will queue. The queue is once per day and once the queue filled, the bank will not add more queue for the day.

100 lots buy at 0.99 100 lots sell at 1.01
100 lots buy at 0.98 100 lots sell at 1.02
100 lots buy at 0.97 100 lots sell at 1.03
100 lots buy at 0.96 100 lots sell at 1.04
100 lots buy at 0.95 100 lots sell at 1.05

Lets say suddenly a panic big investor decide to dump 300 lots at buyers price, the bank will adsorb the volume until 0.97. You can view this as an opportunity to queue at 0.97 when the next person decide to throw, thus buying at 3% below NAV (Discount). The reverse is also true (premium).

Hope you understand more about ETF. 

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